Reid Anderson/Dave King/Craig Taborn: Golden Valley Is Now
Craig Taborn | Dave King | Reid Anderson
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
Dave Douglas: Uplift: Twelve Pieces for Positive Action
Bill Laswell | Dave Douglas | Ian Chang | Joe Lovano | Julian Lage | Mary Halvorson
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
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
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
Steven Nichols: From Dust
Amund Kleppan | Charlie Rees | John Jones | Reuben Goldmark | Steven Nichols
You may not have heard of trumpeter Steven Nichols, but his pedigree speaks for itself: he has studied and performed...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: September/2024
The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Jazz Impressions of the USA
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
Miles Davis: The Lost Quintet
Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Jack DeJohnette | Miles Davis | Wayne Shorter
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
Sachal Studios Orchestra: Jazz and All That In Memory of Dave Brubeck
Ballu Khan | Derek Watkins | John Parracelli | Nafees Ahmed Khan | Najaf Ali | Rafiq Ahmed
The Sachal Studios Orchestra comprises musicians from Pakistan playing traditional instruments plus three cellos and three desks of violins. It...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Devin Gray/Ellery Eskelin/Dave Ballou/Michael Formanek: Dirgo Rataplan
Dave Ballou | Devin Gray | Ellery Eskelin | Michael Formanek
Although just 28-yearsold, Gray is mature enough to see himself as a “musician-drummer rather than a drummer-drummer”, and in this...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2012
Dave Brubeck: Live in Europe
Originally on Columbia and supplemented here with a 1956 session, this is the 1958 classic Desmond/Wright/Morello quartet on one if...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020
Bob James: Feel Like Making LIVE!
Billy Kilson | Bob James | Michael Palazollo
Back in 2000, James’ reputation covered so many bases that he was the headliner at Jazz FM's 10th birthday party,...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2022
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