Julian Lage: The Layers
Bill Frisell | Dave King | Jorge Roeder | Julian Lage
Julian Lage has not only been prolific but gone up a few gears creatively with this being his third recording...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2023
Barbara Thompson’s Paraphernalia: The Last Fandango
Barbara Thompson | Billy Thompson | Dave Ball | Jon Hiseman | Peter Lemer
Thompson would only want her music judged on its merits but to not acknowledge her extraordinary story would be perverse....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2016
Mole
Christophe de Bézenac | Dave Kane | Paul Hession | Petter Frost Fadnes
There’s a lot to be said for this pan-European free-jazz quartet’s debut – not least the opportunity to hear veteran...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2018
Jerry Bergonzi: Rigmaroll
Andrea Michelutti | Bruce Barth | Dave Santora | Jerry Bergonzi | Phil Grenadier
Back in the day, virtually every tenor player had such a distinctive sound, you knew immediately who it was. Times...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2015
Scott Hamilton Quartet: Dean Street Nights
Dave Green | John Pearce | Scott Hamilton | Steve Brown
Here's a man who knows what he does best and is content with that. Hamilton, shortly to be 60, has...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2014
Mike Westbrook Orchestra: The Cortège
The Westbrooks have made many beautiful and profound records but this is my favourite. That I can say that without...
Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: June/2011
Ray Charles: The Singles Collection 1949-62
If ever a 5-CD set were devised to act as the curtain raiser for the recently-issued True Genius 6-CD set...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2022
Oscar Peterson Quartet: A Time For Love – Live In Helsinki, 1987
Dave Young | Joe Pass | Martin Drew | Oscar Peterson
It probably helps to think of Peterson as the Buddy Rich of the keyboard – with absolute technical mastery of...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Larry Coryell: Live at The Sugar Club Dublin 2016
Colin Scallan | Dave Redmond | Kevin Brady | Larry Coryell | Tracey Coryell
This is the ideal complement to the Last Swing with Ireland session that Angel Air identify as Coryell’s last recording....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2022
Freddie Hubbard Quintet: At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall
Badal Roy | Dave Liebman | Frank Tusa | Jeff Williams | Richie Beirach
Freddie Hubbard was already the undisputed heavyweight champion of jazz trumpet when he played the delightfully named Hamburg jazz club...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
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