The Kaleidoscope Quintet: Dancing on the Edge
Joe Lovano's and Dave Liebman's regular partnerships flowered in the Saxophone Summit supergroup they shared from 1999 with the late...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: December/2020
Daryl Runswick Quartet: Playdreaming
Daryl Runswick | Mick Pyne | Ray Warleigh | Spike Wells
Here's more jazz exhumation, this time courtesy of Spike Wells' ghetto-blaster, lately re-vivified and well worth the effort. Runswick (born...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2018
John Abercrombie: Night
Jack DeJohnette | Jan Hammer | John Abercrombie | Mike Brecker
By 1975, the New York guitarist John Abercrombie was escaping the fusion-virtuoso stereotype he had acquired with Billy Cobham’s band...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2019
The Rebecca Kilgore Trio: Vol. 1
US vocalist Kilgore has been around for a while now [she's in her early seventies] and was a favourite presence...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2021
Bill O'Connell: Jazz Latin
The core band on this sashaying suite played together for decades in the late flautist Dave Valentin's band. They channel...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2018
Charles Mingus: Pithecanthropus Erectus
Being reissued on purple vinyl doesn’t feel exactly the appropriate apotheosis of Pithecanthropus, whose programmatic title-track elaborates on Mingus’ storyline...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2020
Ben Marc: Glass Effect
Ben Marc is a bassist, electronic producer and composer and the nom de plume of Neil Charles: a graduate of...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2022
Art Pepper: Blues For The Fisherman
Art Pepper | Carl Burnett | Elvin Jones | George Cables | George Mraz | Milcho Leviev | Tony Dumas
When, in 1975, troubled Art Pepper came in from the cold for the very last time, he proceeded to tape...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012
Sasha Berliner: Fantome
Harish Raghavan | Jongkuk Kim | Lex Korten | Rico Jones | Sasha Berliner | Taylor Eigsti
The third album for star vibraphonist Sasha Berliner is a through-a-glass-darkly affair that reinforces her signature sound, an ambitious yet...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2025
Capitol gains: Nancy Wilson: But Beautiful
Gino Bertachini | Grady Tate | Hank Jones | Nancy Wilson | Peggy Lee | Ron Carter
Two splendid Capitol albums, given the Pure Pleasure reissue treatment (with excellent sound and authentic packaging). The Nancy Wilson LP,...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2024
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