Review of Dave Douglas and Uri Caine: Present Joys

Dave Douglas and Uri Caine: Present Joys

Dave Douglas | Uri Caine

Green Leaf

Rating: ★★★★

With his passing, it's hard not to hold Charlie Haden in mind when listening to this sublime collaboration. Haden and...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2014

Review of Dave Brubeck Quartet: Birdland 1951-52 & Newport 1955

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Birdland 1951-52 & Newport 1955

Bob Bates | Chet Baker | Clifford Brown | Dave Brubeck | Gerry Mulligan | Herb Barman | Joe Dodge | Joe Morello | Max Roach | Paul Desmond

Solar Records

Rating: ★★★★

This is rare and valuable Brubeck; the sessions from Birdland were taken off the air by Boris Rose, who recorded...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2016

Review of Dave Liebman/Joe Lovano: Compassion: The Music of John Coltrane

Dave Liebman/Joe Lovano: Compassion: The Music of John Coltrane

Billy Hart | Dave Liebman | Joe Lovano | Phil Markowitz | Ron McClure

Resonance

Rating: ★★★

Originally recorded in June 2007 for Jazz on 3 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Coltrane's death on 17 July...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2017

Review of Dave Liebman/Michael Stephens: Lineage

Dave Liebman/Michael Stephens: Lineage

Jonas Burgwinkel | Pablo Held | Robert Landfermann

Pirout Records

Rating: ★★★

Dave Liebman is one of jazz’s great instrumentalists. He is also one of jazz great clinicians, educators and inspirational figures....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2016

Review of Yuriy Galkin Nonet: Nine of a Kind

Yuriy Galkin Nonet: Nine of a Kind

Dafydd Williams | Dave Hamblett | Freddie Gavita | George Crowley | Jon Stokes | ohn Turville | Richard Turner | Tamar Osborn | Yuriy Galkin

F-IRE Presents

Rating: ★★★

Since making his home in London first to take up a full scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music in...

Reviewed by in issue: March/2012

Review of Michael Feinberg: The Elvin Jones Project

Michael Feinberg: The Elvin Jones Project

Billy Hart | George Garzone | Leo Genovese | Michael Feinberg | Tim Hagans

Sunnyside

Rating: ★★★

Michael Feinberg's Elvin Jones project is more of a celebration of the bass players that played with Elvin Jones than...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2012

Review of Judith & Dave O'Higgins Present: The Abstract Truth Big Band

Judith & Dave O'Higgins Present: The Abstract Truth Big Band

Adrian Hallowell | Alistair White | Andy Greenwood | Chris Allard | Dave O'Higgins | Geoff Gascoyne | Graham Harvey | Henry Armburg Jennings | Howard McGill | Judith O'Higgins

JVG Records

Rating: ★★★★

Oliver Nelson's aptly titled 1961 album The Blues and the Abstract Truth is such a perfectly-tuned iconic statement that it...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2015

Review of Dave Douglas: Little Giant Still Life

Dave Douglas: Little Giant Still Life

Andy Clausen | Anwar Marshall | Dave Douglas | Riley Mulherkar | Willem de Koch | Zubin Hensler

Greenleaf

Rating: ★★★★

Douglas’ musical curiosity knows no boundaries: here he is in essentially an all brass chamber context, with the fabulously talented...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2018

Review of Machine Mass featuring Dave Liebman: INTI

Machine Mass featuring Dave Liebman: INTI

Dave Liebman | Michel Delville | Saba Tewelde | Tony Bianco

MoonJune

Rating: ★★★★

Delville and Biano wrote all the material here themselves but, as on their previous album, they are joined by a...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: May/2014

Review of Dave Grusin: Kaleidoscope

Dave Grusin: Kaleidoscope

Chris Beck | Cyrus Chestnut | Eric Wheeler

HighNote

Rating: ★★★

Grusin himself felt this session had a nightclub feel, and he's right, it's very unlike his more ‘studio’ session, so...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

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