Tardo Hammer: Right Now!
Lee Hudson | Steve Williams | Tardo Hammer
Jazz Bird label boss Goeff Hoefer rates Hammer as among New York’s best straight-ahead players and he’s dead right.Now in...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2024
AuB: Folk Devils
Alex Hitchcock | Jasper Høiby | Marc Michel | Maria Chiara Argirò | Morgan Guerin | Tom Barford
AuB is co-led by Alex Hitchcock and Tom Barford, a pair of the UK’s finest young contemporary tenor horns.Following their...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2025
Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez: Revision
This meeting of poet Fred Moten, professor of performance studies and comparative literature at New York University; and bassist Brandon...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2025
Vega Trails: Sierra Tracks
Bassist Milo Fitzpatrick has come a long way since participating in Portico Quartet’s beloved early phase, retreating to session work...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2025
Album Interview: Arun Ghosh: A South Asian Suite
A South Asian Suite is only the third release under Arun Ghosh’s name since Northern Namaste (2008). Originally commissioned by...
Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: November/2013
Johnny Griffin: Live at Ronnie Scott’s 1964
Jackie Dougan | Johnny Griffin | Malcolm Cecil | Stan Tracey
A simplistic overview of modern jazz tenor saxophone in 1964 would have Stan Getz blowing bossa-nova at one end and...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Madison Carter: Polymorphic
Flora Carbo | Imogen Cygler | Jessica Lindsay Smith | Massillon Carter | Niran Dasika
As I have previously flagged up in these pages, the Australian jazz scene (largely, but by no means totally, concentrated...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2024
Michael Brecker Band & Randy Brecker Band: Live at Fabrik
The Michael Brecker Band extensively toured in the late 1980s and 90s, and was widely expected to feature on Brecker's...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2022
Erroll Garner: Dreamstreet
Alvin Stoller | Eddie Calhoun | Erroll Garner | Keith Mitchell | Kelly Martin
Erroll Garner couldn't read a note of music. Not that it affected his career a jot. His Concert By The...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Joe Henderson: Power To The People
Herbie Hancock | Jack DeJohnette | Joe Henderson | Mike Lawrence | Ron Carter
If Hard Bop musicians wanted to loosen their tie in the late 1960s there were three popular ways of doing...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2024
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