Review of Dave Douglas: DD 50 Special Edition 50th Birthday Recordings

Dave Douglas: DD 50 Special Edition 50th Birthday Recordings

Aoife O'Donovan | Clarence Penn | Dave Douglas | Greg Tardy | Jon Irabagon | Joshua Roseman | Linda Oh | Matt Mitchell | Rudy Royston | Uri Caine

Greenlea

Rating: ★★★★

Here's an invite to a fab party. To celebrate 50 years on the planet, Douglas has handsomely boxed three recent...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2014

Review of Reid Anderson/Dave King/Craig Taborn: Golden Valley Is Now

Reid Anderson/Dave King/Craig Taborn: Golden Valley Is Now

Craig Taborn | Dave King | Reid Anderson

Intakt CD

Rating: ★★★★

The title refers to a city on the outskirts of Minneapolis, where all three of the musicians grew up and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Review of Dave Douglas: Uplift: Twelve Pieces for Positive Action

Dave Douglas: Uplift: Twelve Pieces for Positive Action

Bill Laswell | Dave Douglas | Ian Chang | Joe Lovano | Julian Lage | Mary Halvorson

Greenleaf

Rating: ★★★★

Last year Douglas and pals released an album a month, each with a different theme: voting rights, racial equality, women’s...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2019

Review of Dave Stryker: Stryker with Strings Goes to the Movies

Dave Stryker: Stryker with Strings Goes to the Movies

Dave Stryker | Greg Ward | Jeremy Allen | Jim Pugh | Mark Buseli | McLenty Hunter | Mclenty Hunter | Sara Caswell | Xavier Davis

Strykezone Records

Rating: ★★★

Stryker returns with a nostalgic meander through some of cinema’s best loved themes. Moreover, he’s employed strings to beef up...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2025

Review of Chris Hodgkins & Dave Price: Back In Your Own Backyard

Chris Hodgkins & Dave Price: Back In Your Own Backyard

Ashley John Long | Chris Hodgkins | Dave Price | Erika Lyons

Bell

Rating: ★★★

Here's Hodgkins newly released from his long-term role as director of Jazz Services and back to doing what he always...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2015

Review of Charlie Wood: Lush Life

Charlie Wood: Lush Life

Dave Holland | Nikki Iles | Stan Sulzmann

Jellymould

Rating: ★★★

Charlie Wood's seventh album Lush Life is his second release on the Memphis-based independent label, Archer Records, following his 2009...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2020

Review of Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky

Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky

Anja Lechner | Anouar Brahem | Dave Holland | Django Bates

Editor's Choice

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

Brahem began this project before the horrors of Gaza unfolded. But it remains a powerful response to the tragedy of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2025

Review of Gerry Mulligan, Paul Desmond and the Dave Brubeck Trio: The Complete 1972 Berlin Jazz Concert

Gerry Mulligan, Paul Desmond and the Dave Brubeck Trio: The Complete 1972 Berlin Jazz Concert

Alan Dawson | Dave Brubeck | Gerry Mulligan | Jack Six | Paul Desmond

Domino Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

The Mulligan, Desmond, Brubeck package toured Europe in October/November 1972, resulting in the album Together Again for the First Time...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2015

Review of The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Jazz Impressions of the USA

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Jazz Impressions of the USA

Benny Goodman | Bobby Hackett | Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Dodge | Joe Morello | Joe Morelloe | Norman Bates | Paul Desmond

Phoenix Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Jazz Impressions of the USA was Brubeck’s second studio session for Columbia, recorded November 1956 (albeit ‘Home at Last’, the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2013

Review of Miles Davis: The Lost Quintet

Miles Davis: The Lost Quintet

Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | Miles Davis | Wayne Shorter

Sleepy Night

Rating: ★★★

This performance, by what has come to be known as Davis' ‘Lost Quintet’, was taken from his Autumn 1969 tour...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2019

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