Eric Reed: Groovewise
Ben Williams | Eric Reed | Gregory Hutchinson | Seamus Blake
Back in the 1990s, Eric Reed was a fairly regular visitor to the UK. Sadly, some 20 years later, we...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2015
Tom Rainey Obbligato: Float Upstream
Drew Gress | Ingrid Laubrock | Kris Davis | Ralph Alessi | Tom Rainey
I’ve enjoyed hearing these musicians operate in other combinations and contexts – witness, for example, the striking originality of Tom...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018
Simon Moullier: Countdown
Following on from last year's quintet debut Spirit Song comes a stripped-down vibes-bass-drum trio that further highlights the very impressive...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2021
Jean-Luc Ponty: Original Album Series Vol 2
By 1979 a decade had passed since Ponty and Zappa had joined forces for King Kong: by now Ponty was...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2016
Ben Goldberg: Everything Happens to Be
Ben Goldberg is a veteran clarinettist whose work explores the unique identity and richly-veined sonic of his instrument through time.Drawing...
Reviewed by Selwyn Hants in issue: June/2021
O'Higgins & Luft: Play Monk & Trane
Dave O'Higgins | Rob Luft | Rod Youngs | Scott Flanigan
Here's a frontline to savour, with edgesome youth and deep jazz experience, two musicians with a sense of the out-there...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2019
Pablo Held: Ascent
Jeremy Viner | Jonas Burgwinkel | Nelson Veras | Pablo Held | Robert Landermann | Veronica Morscher
Ascent comes on the heels of 2018’s Investigations, which was Held’s tenth album. On it, he brings Brazilian guitarist Nelson...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2020
Courtney Pine: Spirituality
Courtney Pine | Elaine Blair | Jenny Adejayan | Mira Glenn | Natalie Taylor | Zoe Rahman
Courtney's Pine's Spirituality comes at us like a soul-cleanse, a reminder to take stock and practice gratitude.Supported in part by...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: February/2023
Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George and Ira Gershwin Song Book
Ella Fitzgerald | Ellis Larkins | Nelson Riddle
As far as vocal jazz goes, Ella Fitzgerald's series of songbook albums recorded for Norman Granz's Verve label in the...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2016
Stanley Clarke: Time Exposure
Ernie Watts | George Duke | Howard Hewett | Jeff Beck | Louis Johnson | Stanley Clarke
Time Exposure finds Clarke deep into his techno funk phase, pitching himself somewhere between Shalamar, the Johnson Bros and Earth,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2013
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