Review of Sarah Gillespie: Half Cut

Sarah Gillespie: Half Cut

Chris Montague | Conor Chaplin | James Maddren | Kit Downes | Sarah Gillespie | Tom Cawley

self-released

Rating: ★★★

Half Cut may not have the political edge of Gillespie’s early collaborative works with Gilad Atzmon. This is a more...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2024

Review of Tia Fuller: Angelic Warrior

Tia Fuller: Angelic Warrior

Dianne Reeves | Fuller | John Patitucci | Mimi Jones | Rudy Royston | Shamie Royston | Shirazette Tinnin | Terri Lyne Carrington

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★

Although her membership of Beyoncé's band is one of the prime talking points in the alto saxophonist's career, one could...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2012

Review of Charles Mingus: Jazzical Moods

Charles Mingus: Jazzical Moods

Charles Mingus | Clem DeRosa | George Barrow | Jackson Wiley | John LaPorta | Rudy Nichols | Teo Macero | Thad Jones

Poll Winners Records

Rating: ★★★★

The music on this disc emerged from the final sessions at which Mingus largely used conventionally notated music before moving...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2012

Review of Chet Baker: Live In London

Chet Baker: Live In London

Chet Baker | Jim Richardson | John Horler | Tony Mann

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

When Baker came to London to play a week-long engagement at the much-missed Canteen venue way back in 1983, Messrs...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Review of Tani Tabbal Trio: Now Then

Tani Tabbal Trio: Now Then

Adam Siegel | Michael Bisio | Tani Tabbal

TAO Forms

Rating: ★★★

Tani Tabbal hails from a long line of Chicagoan drummers – Gene Krupa, Jo Jones, Tony Williams – who have...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: April/2021

Review of Eddie Harris/Ellis Marsalis: Homecoming

Eddie Harris/Ellis Marsalis: Homecoming

Vince Mendoza

Rating: ★★★

ELM is owned and operated by Ellis and Jason Marsalis. The original Homecoming session dates back to 1985 and was...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2017

Review of Art Pepper: Gettin' Together

Art Pepper: Gettin' Together

Art Pepper | Ben Tucker | Bill Perkins | Conte Candoli | Jimmy Cobb | Jimmy Rowles | Mel Lewis | Paul Chambers Pierre Michelot | Wynton Kelly

American Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

This must be the umpteenth reissue of Pepper’s second summit with a Miles Davis’ 1960 rhythm section in recent years....

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: August/2021

Review of Noah Haidu: Doctone

Noah Haidu: Doctone

Noah Haidu

Sunnyside SSC

Rating: ★★★

Haidu, a former Kenny Barron student, considers the late Kenny Kirkland – who died in 1998 aged only 43 –...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2020

Review of Alfredo Rodriguez: Coral Way

Alfredo Rodriguez: Coral Way

Alana Sinkëy | Alfredo Rodriguez | Carlos Sarduy | Cimafunk | Denis Cuni | Juanlu Montoya | Marcelo Woloski | Michael Olivera | Regis Molina | Yarel Hernandez

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★★

Famed for his attacking, take-no-prisoners playing style, Cuban-born pianist and composer Alfredo Rodriguez has a back story that has become...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2023

Review of John Hollenbeck & NDR Bigband: Colouring Hockets

John Hollenbeck & NDR Bigband: Colouring Hockets

JC Sanford | John Hollenbeck | Matt Moran | NDR Big Band | Patricia Brennan

Flexatonic Records

Rating: ★★★

For two decades the New York-born, Montreal-based drummer-percussionist John Hollenbeck has led a dynamic and inspired multi-Grammy nominated large ensemble...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/2024

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