Review of Gavin Harrison: Cheating The Polygraph

Gavin Harrison: Cheating The Polygraph

Ben Castle | Dave Stewart | Freddie Gavita | Gareth Lockrane | Gary Sanctuary | Gavin Harrison | Larry Williams | Laurence Cottle | Mark Nightingale | Nigel Hitchcock

Kscope CD/vinyl

Rating: ★★★

Harrison holds down the drum chair in Porcupine Tree and King Crimson so knows a thing or three of all...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2015

Review of Luiz Millan: Brazilian Match

Luiz Millan: Brazilian Match

Alice Soyer | Danny Gottlieb | Dave Sanborn | Eddie Daniels | Ellen Johnson | Giana Viscardi | Luiz Millan | Mark Egan | Mike Mainieri | New York Voices

Editor's Choice

Jazz Station Records

Rating: ★★★★

Brazilian songwriters such as Tom Jobim, João Gilberto, Luis Bonfá and Edu Lobo, are so indelibly associated with the music...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2024

Review of Album Interview: Avishai Cohen: Almah

Album Interview: Avishai Cohen: Almah

Amit Landau | Avishai Cohen | Cordelia Hagmann | Nitai Hershkovits | Noam Haimovitz Weinschel | Ofri Nehemya | Yael Shapira | Yoram Lachish

Parlophone Music France/Warner Music Group

Rating: ★★★

Some crossover projects might lead you to the conclusion that jazz and classical are mutually disempowering: the constraints on the...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2014

Review of Album Interview: Christian McBride Trio: Out Here

Album Interview: Christian McBride Trio: Out Here

Christian McBride | Christian Sands | Ulysses Owen, Jr

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★

Although Christian McBride is a familiar figure within the piano trio context, he has never led a piano trio of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2013

Review of Duke Ellington: The Duke Box 2: Duke Ellington in the 50s, 60s and 70s

Duke Ellington: The Duke Box 2: Duke Ellington in the 50s, 60s and 70s

Al Rubin | Anita Moore | Betty Roche | Bobby Durham | Booty Wood | Britt Woodman | Buddy Pearson | Cat Anderson | Chuck Connors | Clark Terry

Storyville 1088617

Rating: ★★★★

Although some of these multi-CD sets from Storyville have been a bit hit and miss, this one is excellent value,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2017

Review of Mike Stern: Upside Downside

Mike Stern: Upside Downside

Bob Berg | Dave Weckl | Don Alias | Don Grolnick | Jaco Pastorious | Jeff Andrew | Jim Beard | Mark Egan | Michael Brecker | Mike Stern

Warners/Atlantic

Rating: ★★★

Here's Stern roaring out of the traps, hot from Miles and given a full-on rock hero studio sound. If this...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2015

Review of Burton Bradstock: All Upon a Lovely Summer's Day

Burton Bradstock: All Upon a Lovely Summer's Day

Burton Bradstock | Dave Ohm | Dorian Ford | Iain Ballamy | Joanne Davies | Julian Ferraretto | Nozomi Cohen | Pete Berryman | Riaan Vosloo | Robin Martin

F-IRE Presents

Rating: ★★★

Burton Bradstock is not only the name of a village down on Dorset's Jurassic coast, it's also the alter ego...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2013

Review of Avery Sharpe Double Quartet: I Am My Neighbor’s Keeper

Avery Sharpe Double Quartet: I Am My Neighbor’s Keeper

Anton Kot | Avery Sharpe | Dave Haughey | Gregory Diehl | Kaila Graef | Mat DeChamplain | Sarah Briggs | Tony Vacca | Wanda Rivera | Yoron Israel

JKNM Records

Rating: ★★★

In common with many listeners, I discovered Avery Sharpe’s work during his two-decades-plus as bassist with McCoy Tyner, hearing him...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2024

Review of John Stein: Lifeline

John Stein: Lifeline

Alexandre Zamith | Daniel Grajew | Dave Hurst | Dave Zinno | David ‘Fathead’ Newman | Ed Lucie | Evan Harlan | Fernando Brandão | Frank Herzberg | Greg Conroy

Editor's Choice

Whaling City Sound

Rating: ★★★★

We reviewed Kansas City guitarist Stein's Whaling City Serendipity CD favourably in our October 2021 issue, while admitting that his...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2022

Review of Album Interview: Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble: The Spirit of Trane

Album Interview: Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble: The Spirit of Trane

Enzo Zirilli | Frank Harrison | Gilad Atzmon | Yaron Stavi

Fanfare

Rating: ★★★★

Fifty years since his death, Coltrane's spirit lives on through the jazz works of many artists, not least Gilad Atzmon....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2017

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