Count Basie: In Concert
This is a typical programme on one of Basie’s many European tours of the period and, while there have been...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Johnny Griffin: Live at Ronnie Scott’s 1964
Jackie Dougan | Johnny Griffin | Malcolm Cecil | Stan Tracey
A simplistic overview of modern jazz tenor saxophone in 1964 would have Stan Getz blowing bossa-nova at one end and...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Courtney Pine: Journey To The Urge Within
It may be hard, in 2023, to gauge the pressure Courtney Pine was under when he made this debut almost...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Hannah Horton: Live in Soho
Hannah Horton | Nic France | Rob Statham | Tim Lapthorn
This album, Hannah Horton’s second, was recorded in front of a live audience. It takes some guts to release a...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: June/2024
Gary Husband: Songs of Love and Solace
A highly promising classical pianist in his youth, Husband’s teacher hurled his beloved (vinyl) copy of Bill Evans’ Live at...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2024
The Other Way: Learning to Be
Billie Bottle | Elly Hopkins | Emma Holbrook | Guillaume Ottaviani | Rowan Porteous
As the band name suggests, there’s a contrarian resistance to consistency about this self-released album. The irony starts with opening...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: June/2024
Manne up!: Shelly Manne & His Men: Live at the Blackhawk Vol. 1
Joe Gordon | Monty Budwig | Richie Kamunca | Shelly Manne | Victor Feldman
Excellent jazz from the ongoing Contemporary/Craft reissue series, here highlighting one of the leading figures of West Coast jazz, drummer...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2024
Thelonious Monk: Criss-Cross
Charlie Rouse | Frankie Dunlop | John Ore | Thelonious Monk
This LP was Thelonious Monk’s second album for Columbia Records after Monk’s Dream; much of it was recorded at the...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2024
Almanaque: Nada Para O Carnaval
Camille Bertault | Jansen Santana | Luca Boscagin | Matheus Nova | Quentin Collins | Raphael Delfino
Both an elegy and a celebration of a life, Nada Para O Carnaval brims with the sort of good-time verve...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2023
Trevor Watts’ Original Drum Orchestra: The Art Is In The Rhythm Volume 2
Ernest Mothle | Kofi Adu | Liam Genocky | Nana Tsiboe | Peter Knight | Trevor Watts
It all begins with the sultry, sumptuous sound of a melodic alto sax joining forces with a gently bowed violin....
Reviewed by Chris Welch in issue: November/2023
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