Abbie Finn Trio: Stotties for Three
Abbie Finn | Harry Keeble | Paul Grainger
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
Jon Lloyd Quartet: Earth Songs
Alex Goodyear | John Law p) | Jon Lloyd | Nick Pini
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
Gili Lopes: Algures
Ari Hoenig | Gili Lopes | Helio Alves | John Ellis | Rogerio Boccato | Vinicius Gomes
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
Harry James: The Complete Harry James in Hi-Fi
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
Hank Jones: Solo and With His Own Bands 1947-59
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
Nye Banfield: Trails And Traces
Ewan Moore | Hamish Nockles-Moore | Mark Kavuma | Nye Banfield | Rupert Cox | Wilf Diamond
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
The Count Basie Orchestra: Basie Swings the Blues
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
Ruth Goller: Skyllumina
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
Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert
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
Billy Mohler: Ultraviolet
Billy Mohler | Chris Speed | Nate Wood | Shane Endsley
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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