Eberhard Weber: Encore

Ack van Rooyen | Eberhard Weber

Smoke and mirrors? Or an intriguing re-creation of past musics? Either way this is a significant release, not least because...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2015

Cynthia Felton: Freedom Jazz Dance

Cynthia Felton | Cyrus Chestnut | Ernie Watts | Terri Lyne Carrington | Wallace Roney

From the opening spiritual, ‘Oh Freedom’, Cynthia Felton's four-octave voice sweeps you up in its virtuosic embrace. On this, her...

Reviewed by Peter Quin in issue: October/2012

Tommy Dorsey Orchestra: The Hits Collection – 1935-58

Allan DeWitt | Allan Storr | Bonnie Lou Williams | Buddy Gately | Cliff Weston | Connie Haines | Edythe Wright | Frank Sinatra | Jack Leonard | Jo Stafford

It’s best first to consider the subtext here. As the strapline has it, these are the Dorsey band’s hits, running...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2022

Echoes Of Swing: Dancing

Bernd Lhotzky | Chris Hopkins | Colin T. Dawson | Oliver Mewes

This is the third album, and the second on ACT, by this Europe- based group of mainstreamers to come my...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2016

MU: Of Strings and Bridges

MU is the diverse Italian duo of guitarist Adriano Lanzi and cellist Federica Vecchio blending a quirky Canterburylike pastoral prog...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

The Gurdjieff Folk Instruments Ensemble: Music of Georges I.Gurdjieff

Aram Nikoghosyan | Armen Yeganyan | Artur Atoyan | Avag Ayvazyan | Davit Avagyan | Emmanuel Hovhannisyan | Harutyun Chkolyan | Levon Eskenian | Levon Torosyan | Meri Vardanyan

Keith Jarrett, a huge fan of the guru-like 20th century spiritual teacher Georges Gurdjieff, rekindled interest in the latter’s visionary...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2011

Let Spin: Steal The Light

Chris Williams | Finlay Panter | Moss Freed | Ruth Goller

Despite Teo Macero's pinhole surgery on Miles Davis's tape mountains, economics and philosophies of authenticity have minimised jazz post-production. This...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: July/2020

Freda Payne: Come Back to Me Love

Best known for her uplifting Northern Soul hit ‘Band of Gold’, Freda has always been a R&B-influenced jazz singer too...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014

Frederik Köster Quartett: Momentaufnahme

Frederik Köster | Niels Klein | Ralf Gessler | Robert Landfermann | Tobias Hoffmann

Formed in 2003, trumpeter Frederik Köster's Quartett released two albums, Constantly Moving and Zeichen der Zeit (Signs of the Time),...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2013

George Roberts: His Big Bass Trombone/Meet Mr Roberts/Bottoms Up

The leading LA practitioner of the bass trombone with a big band, but, more interestingly, in a sextet with “Star...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2012