Stan Getz/Bob Brookmeyer: Recorded Fall 1961
Bob Brookmeyer | Jimmy Garrison | John Neves | Roy Haynes | Stan Getz | Steve Kuhn
The eligibility of this album for the Poll Winners label shows that its warm welcome in 1962 was perhaps exaggerated...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2016
Paul Desmond: The Complete RCA Albums Collection
This six CD set, recorded between 1961-64, includes bonus tracks not included on the original vinyl releases of Desmond Blue,...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2013
Virgilo Armas Trio: De Repente
Domingo Moret | Freddy Leon | Guillermo Tariba | Rodolfo Buenano | Tata Guerra | Virgilio Armas
Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies may have become one of the key curators of classic South African jazz in...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2022
Sebastian Noelle: System One
Chris Tordini | Dan Weiss | Matt Mitchell | Sebastian Noelle
Sages of various persuasions have probably been giving their pet names to the dialectics of intuition and rationality from the...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2022
Yelena Eckemoff: Nocturnal Animals
Arild Andersen | Jon Christensen | Thomas Strønen | Yelena Eckemoff
Russian-born Eckemoff has appeared in these pages before, but her output seems to far outstrip our coverage. Fifteen albums in...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2020
Album Interview: Pulled by Magnets: Rose Golden Doorways
Neil Charles | Pete Wareham | Seb Rochford
Contemporary jazz is a spectrum and there are few musician-composers in the field that epitomise its openness more than the...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2020
Splinters: Inclusivity
Jeff Clyne | John Stevens | Kenny Wheeler | Phil Seamen | Stan Tracey | Trevor Watts | Tubby Hayes
One of the most fascinating experimental projects launched during the turmoil of the early 1970s British modern jazz scene was...
Reviewed by Chris Welch in issue: February/2022
Romanovská Tichý Hubrý: Bylo To Právé/It Was Right At
Anna Romanovská | Michal Hubrý | Petr Tichý
If you don't have connections to what's happening in Prague, it's hard to stay abreast of Bohemia's musical bohemia. The...
Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: February/2021
Tommaso Starace Harmony Less Quartet: Narrow Escape
Dave O'Higgins | Davide Liberti | Ruben Bellavia | Tommaso Starace
Milan-born and UK-educated saxophonist Tommaso Starace makes his devotion to hard bop pretty clear on Narrow Escape, but it's no...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2019
JD Allen: Barracoon
Ian Kenselaar | JD Allen | Nic Cacioppo
JD Allen's 13th album marks a return to no-frills sax-and-rhythm piano-free jazz. The saxophonist's peppery warmth and tonal inflections recall...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2019
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