Johnny Griffin: The Little Giant/Change Of Pace
From the mid-1950s through to the mid-60s, it appeared that Blue Note, Prestige and Riverside labels all had easy access...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2013
Sonny Stitt: The Sensual Sound of Sonny Stitt/And the Top Brass
Though compared with Charlie Parker more frequently than he liked, Sonny Stitt nevertheless acknowledged their similarities, as testified by his...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: November/2013
The Filthy Six: The Fox
Led by trumpeter Nick Etwell, these slinky retro groovesters, featuring B3-er Pete Whitaker, work within very stylistic confines of funk-soaked...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012
Tina Brooks Quintet: The Complete Recordings: Minor Moves/True Blue/Back To The Tracks/The Waiting Game
Having spent his early years scratching a living around the Big Apple with either local latin bands or supplying a...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2015
Paul Desmond: First Place Again
Connie Kay | Jim Hall | Paul Desmond | Percy Heath
Paul Desmond and Jim Hall collaborated on a whole series of ‘mood jazz’ albums on the RCA label in the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2019
Mike Clark & Michael Zilber: Mike Drop
Matt Clark | Michael Zilber | Mike Clark | Peter Barshay
I wanted to like this album more than I do. Clark is a player named in the press blurb as...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2021
Sebastian Noelle: System One
Chris Tordini | Dan Weiss | Matt Mitchell | Sebastian Noelle
Sages of various persuasions have probably been giving their pet names to the dialectics of intuition and rationality from the...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2022
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
Various Artists: New Horizons: A Bristol Jazz Sound
In March 2020 (just before ‘you-know-what’) Bristol jazz promoter Worm Disco Club announced the launch of a record label to...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: December/2020
Veronica Swift: Confessions
Benny Green | Carl Allen | David Wong | Emmet Cohen | Kyle Poole | Russell Hall | Veronica Swift
The daughter of the jazz singer, educator and author Stephanie Nakasian and the late jazz pianist Hod O'Brien, Veronica Swift...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2019
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