Review of Tom Harrison: Unfolding in Tempo

Tom Harrison: Unfolding in Tempo

Cleveland Watkiss | Daniel Casimir | David Lyttle | Robert Mitchell | Tom Harrison

Lyte Records

Rating: ★★★

Cardiff-born saxophonist Tom Harrison has assembled a very accomplished quintet for his Duke Ellington (and Billy Strayhorn) tribute project: Cleveland...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2016

Review of Coryell Mouzon: Back Together Again

Coryell Mouzon: Back Together Again

Alphonse Mouzon | John Lee | Larry Coryell | Philip Catherine

Atlantic

Rating: ★★

Back together again, as in reviving the protagonists' fruitful partnership in Eleventh House, but this woeful recording bares little comparison...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2014

Review of IF: If5

IF: If5

Ben Taylor | Dave Browne | Dave Quincy | Guy Gardner | Rod Brown | Terry Smith

Repertoire

Rating: ★★

All credit to Quincy and Smith for keeping the flame alive, their revival last year of If (or is it...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2016

Review of Mo Foster and Friends: In Concert

Mo Foster and Friends: In Concert

Mo Foster

Right Track Records

Rating: ★★★★

Listen to Mo Foster and you are listening to 60 years of British popular music. Has anyone played bass in...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2021

Review of Alexander Hawkins and Louis Moholo-Moholo: Keep Your Heart Straight

Alexander Hawkins and Louis Moholo-Moholo: Keep Your Heart Straight

Alexander Hawkins | Louis Moholo-Moholo

Ogun

Rating: ★★★★

South Africa's Louis Moholo-Moholo came to London close to half a century ago and, together with his fellow exiles, went...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: April/2013

Review of Steve Davis: Say When

Steve Davis: Say When

Eddie Henderson | Eric Alexander | Harold Mabern | Joe Farnsworth | Nat Reeves | Steve Davis

Smoke Sessions

Rating: ★★★

With six tracks being JJ Johnson covers and a Harold Mabern original called ‘Mr Johnson’, you don't have to listen...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2015

Review of Jeff Davis: Leaf House

Jeff Davis: Leaf House

Eivind Opsvik | Jeff Davis | Russ Lossing

Fresh Sound New Talent

Rating: ★★★

Drum-led piano trios are always a bit different. There's a unique gravitational pull to the best ones, and that's nothing...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: February/2013

Review of Dexter Gordon: Four Classic Albums – Second Set

Dexter Gordon: Four Classic Albums – Second Set

Art Taylor | Billy Mitchell | Connie Kay | Hank Jones | John Lewis | Lucky Thompson | Milt Hinton | Milt Jackson | Oscar Pettiford | Percy Heath

Avid Jazz

Rating: ★★★

A previous collection in Avid's series covered Gordon's sadly brief surfacing in 1955 and the start of his more permanent...

Reviewed by Brain Priestley in issue: August/2019

Review of John Fedchock New York Big Band: Like It Is

John Fedchock New York Big Band: Like It Is

Allen Farnham | Bobby Sanabria | Dave Ratacjzak | Dick Sarpola | John Fedchock | Keith O'Quinn 3 | Mark Vinci 5 | Tony Kadleck 4

Mama Records

Rating: ★★★

It only took a couple of bars of the opener, ‘You and the Night and the Music’ to conjure the...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2015

Review of Mário Laginha Trio: Jangada

Mário Laginha Trio: Jangada

Alexandre Frazão | Bernardo Moreira | Mário Laginha

Edition

Rating: ★★★★

At age 61, Laginha has built a secure reputation in his native Portugal, both as vocalist Maria João’s accompanist of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2022

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