Review of Abbie Finn Trio: Stotties for Three

Abbie Finn Trio: Stotties for Three

Abbie Finn | Harry Keeble | Paul Grainger

Self-release/Bandcamp

Rating: ★★★

When an album comes with a titular celebration of an iconic North-East bakery product, and an opening tune entitled ‘Nee...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: March/2024

Review of Jon Lloyd Quartet: Earth Songs

Jon Lloyd Quartet: Earth Songs

Alex Goodyear | John Law p) | Jon Lloyd | Nick Pini

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

Commenting on this new release, Ubuntu’s Martin Hummel says he was only recently introduced to Lloyd’s music. Me, too. Hummel...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2024

Review of Gili Lopes: Algures

Gili Lopes: Algures

Ari Hoenig | Gili Lopes | Helio Alves | John Ellis | Rogerio Boccato | Vinicius Gomes

Self-release

Rating: ★★★

Algures means ‘somewhere’ in Portuguese, although there’s no sign of the famous Bernstein/Sondheim tune on this album from globe-trotting Brazilian-born...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: March/2024

Review of Harry James: The Complete Harry James in Hi-Fi

Harry James: The Complete Harry James in Hi-Fi

Allan Reuss | Bob Stone | Buddy Rich | Conrad Gozzo | Corky Corcoran | Dick Nash | Don Paladino | George Roberts | Harry James | Helen Forrest

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★

When Capitol asked Harry James to re-record the most popular items in his back catalogue in 1955, it was ‘to...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2024

Review of Hank Jones: Solo and With His Own Bands 1947-59

Hank Jones: Solo and With His Own Bands 1947-59

Arnold Fishkin | Barry Galbraith | Bobby Jaspar | Don Lamond | Donald Byrd | Eddie Jones | Elvin Jones | Hank Jones | Joe Wilder | John Smith

Acrobat

Rating: ★★★

Perhaps not so celebrated in his own right as his brothers Thad and Elvin, and (in his own opinion) not...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2024

Review of Nye Banfield: Trails And Traces

Nye Banfield: Trails And Traces

Ewan Moore | Hamish Nockles-Moore | Mark Kavuma | Nye Banfield | Rupert Cox | Wilf Diamond

Self-release/Bandcamp

Rating: ★★★★

Nye Banfield is a young London-based tenor player with a big sound - full voiced and declamatory with an attractive...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: April/2024

Review of The Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Swings the Blues

The Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Swings the Blues

Alvin Walker | Betty Lavette | Bobby Floyd | Bobby Rush | Brandon Lee | Buddy Guy | Carmen Bradford | Castro ‘Mr. Sipp’ Coleman | Charlie Musselwhite | Charlton Johnson

Candid

Rating: ★★★★

CBO Band Director Scotty Barnhart made the thank-you speech when the Blues Foundation’s inducted Count Basie into their Blues Hall...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2024

Review of Ruth Goller: Skyllumina

Ruth Goller: Skyllumina

Bex Burch | Emanuele Maniscalco | Frank Rosaly | Jim Hart | Mark Sanders | Max Andrzejewski | Ruth Goller | Sebastian Rochford | Tom Skinner | Will Glaser

Editor's Choice

International Anthem

Rating: ★★★★

Italian-born bassist, vocalist and musical adventurer Ruth Goller prompted double takes with her deeply intimate, often unsettling 2021 debut Skylla,...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2024

Review of Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert

Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert

Alice Coltrane | Archie Shepp | Cecil McBee | Clifford Jarvis | Ed Blackwell | Jimmy Garrison | Kumar Kramer | Pharoah Sanders | Tulsi

Editor's Choice

Impulse!

Rating: ★★★★

On 21 February 1971, Alice Coltrane took to the stage at New York’s Carnegie Hall as part of a benefit...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2024

Review of Billy Mohler: Ultraviolet

Billy Mohler: Ultraviolet

Billy Mohler | Chris Speed | Nate Wood | Shane Endsley

Contagious Music

Rating: ★★★★

The bassist Billy Mohler’s jazz chops are not in dispute, having initially graduated from Berklee and the Thelonious Monk Institute....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2023/2024

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