Robert Hurst: Bob: A Palindrome
You’ll probably best remember Robert Hurst from his Wynton Marsalis days, but currently he tours with Diana Krall and trumpeter...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2013
Mammal Hands: Animalia
Jesse Barrett | Jordan Smart | Nick Smart
If the musicians Matthew Halsall welcomes onto Manchester's Gondwana label share an MO, it's for meditatively circling passages, rhythmic drive...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: October/2014
John Law: Re-Creations Vol.2/Vol.3
Billy Weir | James Agg | John Law | Sam Crockatt
An ambitious approach to a wide range of repertoire, mostly 20th century in origin (from James P. Johnson to Pat...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020
Chet Baker: At The Salt Peanuts Club, Cologne 1981
Bob Mover | Burkhart Ruckert | Chet Baker | Dennis Luxion | Jon Eardley | Rocky Knauer
It has long been a given that there are hundreds of live European performance tapes in existence by Mis'tah Chet....
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2012
Al Di Meola: Elysium
Al Di Meola | Barry Miles | Mario Parmisano | Peter Kaszas | Philippe Saisse | Rhani Krija
At 60, it's no surprise Di Meola is slowing down, but in his case it's not so much physically as...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2015
Zoe Rahman: Kindred Spirits
Ivo Perelman | Jason Stein | Rudi Mahall
Quite one of the best albums of the last couple of years. Washed with the Zeitgeist of transculturation, or glocalisation...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2018
Rich Halley: The Shape of Things
Matthew Shipp | Michael Bisio | Newman Taylor Baker | Rich Halley
Rich Halley has spent half a century carving out a niche for locally-sourced left-field jazz in Portland, Oregon. In that...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: December/2020
Bill Evans: Original Album Series
This collection of late Evans hangs together well, despite omitting the quintet album with Tom Harrell (We Will Meet Again),...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2016
Joyce Moreno: Rio de Janeiro
With all of modern music's effects-laden trickery and hype-laden disappointment, it sometimes takes a legend to remind us how it's...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2012
Bill Charlap Trio: Notes from New York
Bill Charlap | Kenny Washington | Peter Washington
Now that Charlap has won a Grammy for his collaboration with Tony Bennett, we can expect some wider appreciation of...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2016
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