Nick Smart's Trogon: Tower Casa
Chris Montague | Dave Hamblett | Denny ‘Jimmy’ Martinez | Kishon Khan | Nick Smart | Pete Eckford
The head of Jazz at the Royal Academy of Music has released two CDs previously, both tributes, Remembering Nick Drake...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Paul Booth: 44
Booth is the great communicator. Whatever style he plays, and new album 44 covers everything from the rock-grooved ‘Blues in...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2022
Michel Portal: Men's Land
This album, from a May 1987 concert at the seventh Amiens International Jazz Festival by a group led by tenor...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2016
Steve Melling/Clark Tracey Special Septet: Special One
It’s taken a while for this to emerge but the wait was worth it. Something of a reunion of old...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2011
Rosie Frater-Taylor: Featherweight
Dave Edwards | Lewis Moody | Rob Mullarkey | Rosie Frater-Taylor | Tim Potter
If the self-released Bloom was Frater-Taylor’s ‘coming of age’ album, then Featherweight is a realisation that, even at 24, life...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2024
George Garzone/Alan Pasqua/Derek Oles/Peter Erskine: 3 Nights In LA
Alan Pasqua | Derek Oles | George Garzone | Peter Erskine
If proof were needed that bebop-rooted, standard-songform jazzmaking can feel as contemporary as today's headlines, this live set – captured...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Marcus Printup: Gentle Rain
Husband-and-wife duos are rare enough in jazz – but one that teams trumpet with harp must be unique. For the...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2020
The Alan Skidmore Quartet: Naima
Skidmore has never hidden his espousal of the Coltrane cause. He clearly worships the man. Open him up and he’d...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2018
Miles Davis: Tutu
These reissues, including yet another reappearance of Tutu – even after the super-duper ultimate Tutu double CD reissue that included...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2014
Sonny Rollins Trio: Complete 1957-62 Studio Recordings
The premise behind this is that it would be instructive to compile a set of Rollins' studio trio performances into...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2017
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