Buster Williams: Unalome
Bruce Williams | Buster Williams | George Colligan | Jean Baylor | Lenny White | Stefon Harris
Williams is better known as a sideman than a leader, his career companions amounting to something of a ‘who's who’...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2023
Brainkiller: Colourless Green Superheroes
Brian Allen | Coppe | Hernan Hecht | Jacob Koller
Colourless Green Superheroes follows faithfully in the footsteps of Brainkiller’s Rare Noise debut, The Infiltrator. Detailed, even joyous themes and...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2013
Benoit Delbecq: The Weight of Light
Benoit Delbecq possesses an impressively long discography as befits a highly respected pianist on the French improv scene. Before deciding...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2021
JT4: Tate Song
Andrew McCormack | Jean Toussaint | Larry Bartley | Troy Miller
JT4 are a working straight-ahead sax and rhythm quartet lead by one-time Jazz Messenger and long-time London resident, saxophonist Jean...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: April/2014
Sonny Rollins Quartet with Don Cherry: Complete Live at the Village Gate 1962
Billy Higgins | Bob Cranshaw | Don Cherry | Sonny Rollins
Archive release of the year, without a doubt. The only music previously issued from these live dates was the three...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2015
Møster!: Inner Earth
Hans Magnus ‘Snah’ Ryan | Kenneth Kapstad | Kjetil Møster | Nikolai Eilertsen
On this follow up to Møster!'s 2013 debut album, Edvard Lygre Møster, keyboardist Ståle Storløkken's Ra-ish synths and distorted Fender...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015
Count Basie: Basie at Birdland
Here it is; the classic that Georgie Fame memorably immortalised in his composition ‘Vinyl’ a few years back, and on...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: October/2020
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
Marzette Watts: Marzette & Company
Byard Lancaster | Clifford Thornton | Henry Grimes | Juni Booth | Marzette Watts | Sonny Sharrock
Something of a footnote in jazz history – his name is absent from most reference books – Marzette Watts is...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2012
Michael Feinberg: The Elvin Jones Project
Billy Hart | George Garzone | Leo Genovese | Michael Feinberg | Tim Hagans
Michael Feinberg's Elvin Jones project is more of a celebration of the bass players that played with Elvin Jones than...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2012
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