Duke Ellington: 4tet/5tet/6tet/7tet: The 1956-58 Small Group Recordings
It would be easy to downplay this as merely some more gems from the amazingly prolific Ellington, but the context...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2014
Hans Koller/Oscar Pettiford Quartett: Black Forest Echoes
Atilla Zoller | Hans Koller | Jimmy Pratt | Oscar Pettiford
A hitherto unheard gem from the legendary MPS archives, this splendid session, recorded at his villa by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2022
Loz Speyer's Time Zone: Clave Sin Embargo
Andy Ball | Dave Manington | Loz Speyer | Martin Hathaway | Maurizio Ravalico | Stuart Hall
Loz Speyer has long been on the list of idiosyncratic British jazz musicians arguably requiring further attention. Following 2017's Inner...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Johnny Hammond: Wild Horses Rock Steady
There's a killer line-up involved here, yet this glossy album contains little to detain serious students of jazz. It's hard...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: April/2012
Steve Khan: Patchwork Medio Mezclado
Khan has long behind left his jazz rock days, but the philosophy of fusion remains implicit to his art. Mezclado...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2020
Alyn Shipton’s New Orleans Friends: In Concert
Adrian Cox | Alyn Shipton | Emile Martyn | Finlay Milne | Richard Simmons | Simon Picton
Author and Jazzwise scribe Shipton has long had an active side-line as bassist and bandleader. More recently this has been...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2022
Mole: What Is The Meaning?
David Gilmore | Hernan Hecht | Luri Molina | Mark Aanderud
No, not a tribute band to Robert Wyatt and Matching Mole, this quartet is a whole Mole to themselves, although...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2012
Joe Magnarelli: Magic Trick
Andy Fusco | Ben Wolfe | Byron Landon | Joe Magnarelli | John Hart
I was less than enthusiastic about trumpeter Magnarelli in a recent review. Happily, it's possible to be rather more appreciative...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2018
Luciana Souza: Storytellers
The São Paulo-born, LA-based, vocalist Luciana Souza's new collaboration with esteemed Grammy-winning arranger Vince Mendoza and the WDR big band...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020
The Mark Harvey Group: A Rite for All Souls
Trumpeter Mark Harvey is best known as founder of The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, the long-running big band with a penchant...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2020
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