Joel Harrison 7: Search
The Washington DC guitarist-composer Joel Harrison (and sometime rugged country-blues singer, though not here) has been cooking up his own...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012
Azar Lawrence: The Seeker
Azar Lawrence | Benito Gonzalez | Essiet Okon Essiet | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Nicholas Payton
Of all the post-Coltrane tenor saxophonists, arguably the most outstanding and least recognised must surely be Azar Lawrence. His youthful...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2014
Dezron Douglas: Atalaya
Dezron Douglas | Emilio Modeste | George Burton | Joe Dyson Jr | Melvis Santa
A protége of Jackie McLean, a DownBeat magazine 2019 Rising Star and a performer with Pharoah Sanders, Ravi Coltrane, Cyrus...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Django Reinhardt: Diminishing Blackness: The Compositions of Django Reinhardt
There have been numerous attempts to produce box sets that cover the range of Django Reinhardt’s work. Among examples reviewed...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2019
Cannonball Adderley/Sérgio Mendes: Cannonball Adderley with Sérgio Mendes & the Bossa Rio Sextet
Strange retitlings and strange bedfellows in the bonus material of these two CDs, but also some fine music. The main...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2020
Ken Peplowski: Maybe September
Ken Peplowski | Martin Wind | Matt Wilson | Ted Rosenthal
Peplowski has found a distinctive way to play on both his instruments. His clarinet, extensively featured on this scintillating new...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2013
Phil Woods: Rights of Swing
The title suggests that Phil Woods’ first extended composition, a five-movement jazz suite, might owe something to Stravinsky’s Rite of...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2023
Osian Roberts: Bop Viveur
Jeremy Brown | Matt Fishwick | Osian Roberts | Rob Barron
By naming their jointly-founded label as they did, Roberts and the Fishwick brothers made clear their creative intentions and haven’t...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2024
JC Hopkins Biggish Band: Meet Me At Minton's
Grammy-nominated composer and producer, pianist and ex-folk singer Hopkins, a Californian who moved over to New York in 2000, has...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2017
Grover Washington Jnr: The Defnitive Collection
Bob James | Eric Gale | Gary King | Grover Washington Jnr | Ralph McDonald | Richard Tee
The late Philadelphian may have spawned countless inane imitators who micro-waved the tailend of his career in the mid-1990s, which...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2017
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