Review of Bob James & Nathan East: The New Cool

Bob James & Nathan East: The New Cool

Bob James

Concord Records

Rating: ★★★

Like the proverbial horse and carriage, James and East go together like the best of marriages. It could of course...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2016

Review of Trilok Gurtu: Crazy Saints – Live

Trilok Gurtu: Crazy Saints – Live

Daniel Goyone | Minh Doky | Trilok Gurtu

MIG

Rating: ★

Trilok Gurtu’s discography is not short of great moments. A consummate percussionist whose music is conceptualised around the ethos of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2016

Review of Hiromi and Edmar Castaneda: Live In Montreal

Hiromi and Edmar Castaneda: Live In Montreal

Edmar Castaneda | Hiromi Uehara

Telarc

Rating: ★★★

Hiromi and Castaneda are musical soul brother and sister: each has a ridiculous facility on their instrument, each has the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2017

Review of Various Artists: Jazz from London 1957

Various Artists: Jazz from London 1957

Bert Courtley | Bill Eyden | Dill Jones | Hank Shaw | Jimmy Skidmore | Ken Wray | Lennie Bush | Tubby Hayes

Acrobat Music

Rating: ★★★★

A real rarity, this one, a collectors' item that goes far enough back into British modern-jazz history to defeat even...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2013

Review of Hilde Marie Holsen: Lazuli

Hilde Marie Holsen: Lazuli

Hilde Marie Holsen

Hubro

Rating: ★★★★

Norway's Hilde Marie Holsen creates bewitching soundscapes using her trumpet and an array of electronics. She compares her work to...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: October/2018

Review of Lucian Ban/Mat Maneri: Transylvanian Concert

Lucian Ban/Mat Maneri: Transylvanian Concert

Lucian Ban | Mat Maneri

ECM

Rating: ★★★

Although we have all heard of Transylvania, home of Count Dracula, there may be some who think it’s a fictional...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2013

Review of Gee/Gallo/Minetto: Live in Rome (Villa Celimontana)

Gee/Gallo/Minetto: Live in Rome (Villa Celimontana)

Jonathan Gee

Self-release

Rating: ★★★

Hard act to follow, that Frank Sinatra, but Jonathan Gee – known principally as a pianist, although he's sung the...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2020

Review of Susanna: Wild Dog

Susanna: Wild Dog

Emmet Kelly | Jeremy Gara | Jo Berger Myhre | Kari Rønnekleiv | Ole Henrik Moe | Shahzad Ismaily | Susanna

Rune Grammofon

Rating: ★★★★

Susanna Wallumrød has created her own unique sound world, and although certain stylistic nuances associated with Solveig Slettahjell remain –...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2012

Review of Sissoko, Segal, Parisien, Peirani: Les Égarés

Sissoko, Segal, Parisien, Peirani: Les Égarés

Ballake Sissoko | Emile Parisien | Vincent Peirani | Vincent Segal

No Format! Records

Rating: ★★★★

Taking its name, perhaps, from the award-winning 2003 French film of the same name - a story about a family...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2023

Review of Greg Murphy: You Remind Me

Greg Murphy: You Remind Me

David Stoller | Frank Lacy | Greg Murphy | Malou Beauvoir | Obasi Akoto | Steve Johns | Zach Brock

Whaling City Sound

Rating: ★★★★

Pianist and composer Greg Murphy's seventh album as leader, a heartfelt tribute to his late wife Nancy, is a frustrating...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: May/2024

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