Review of Ethan Iverson: Technically Acceptable

Ethan Iverson: Technically Acceptable

Ethan Iverson | Kush Abadey | Rob Schwimmer | Simón Willson | Thomas Morgan | Vinnie Sperrazza

Editor's Choice

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★★

The pianist-composer Ethan Iverson, since parting company with The Bad Plus in 2017, has been maintaining a steady profile with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2024

Review of Beats & Pieces Big Band: Ten

Beats & Pieces Big Band: Ten

Anthony Brown | Anton Hunter | Ben Cottrell | Finlay Panter | Graham South | Nick Walters | Oliver Dover | Owen Bryce | Rich McVeigh | Richard Foote

Efpi

Rating: ★★★

Beats & Pieces' director Ben Cottrell is a Manc indie-band singer trapped in a big-band jazz leader's body. Or is...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018

Review of Sam Anning: Earthen

Sam Anning: Earthen

Andrea Keller | Carl Mackey | Kyrie Anderson | Mat Jodrell | Sam Anning | Theo Carbo

Earshift Music

Rating: ★★★★

As I have previously flagged up in these pages, the Australian jazz scene (largely, but by no means totally, concentrated...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2024

Review of Smoke: Everything

Smoke: Everything

Akira Tana | Bobb Bragg | Curtis Clark | Danny Daniels | Gary Griffieth | Hakim Ali Muhammad | Kenny Kenkins | Lani Wilson | Nardy Dedmann | Shirley Puckett

MPS

This multi-racial Californian group’s choice of moniker pretty much nails their gang colours to the mast. Here’s a clue: they’re...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2018

Review of Galliano : Halfway Somewhere

Galliano : Halfway Somewhere

Bémbé Ségué | Crispin ‘Pump’ Taylor | Crispin ‘Spry’ Robinson | Ernie McKone | Jason Yarde | Rob Gallagher | Ski Oakenfull | Valerie Etienne

Brownswood Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Back in the mists of time, Rob Gallagher, aka Roberto Galliano, used to feature on Gilles Peterson's Radio London show,...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: October/2024

Review of Callum Allardice: Cinematic Light Orchestra

Callum Allardice: Cinematic Light Orchestra

Callum Allardice

Earshift Music

Rating: ★★★★

As I have previously flagged up in these pages, the Australian jazz scene (largely, but by no means totally, concentrated...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2024

Review of AustraLYSIS: Dualling

AustraLYSIS: Dualling

Greg White | Hazel Smith | Phil Slater | Roger Dean | Sandy Evans

Earshift Music

Rating: ★★★★

As I have previously flagged up in these pages, the Australian jazz scene (largely, but by no means totally, concentrated...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2024

Review of Grant Green: Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry's

Grant Green: Slick! Live at Oil Can Harry's

Barney Kessel | Billy Wilson | Clarence Palmer | Claude Bartee | Don Lamond | Emmanuel Riggins | Gerald Izzard | Grant Green | Greg ‘Vibrations’ Williams | Larry Ridley

Resonance

Rating: ★★★

Once again, hats off to Resonance for their diligent archival research that reaches into places other album researchers fail to...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2018

Review of Jeff Baker: Phrases

Jeff Baker: Phrases

Anthony Devroye | Blaise Magniere | Brian Blade | Cheng-Hou Lee | Clark Sommers | Darrell Grant | Geof Bradfield | Gregory Uhlmann | Jeff Baker | Marie Wang

Rating: ★★★

“The musical side of composing – creating melodies, reharmonising music – has always come pretty easy to me,” says Jeff...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2018

Review of Martha D Lewis: All That You See

Martha D Lewis: All That You See

Adrian Glover | Alex Wilson | Ben Rogerson | Dimitri Christopoulos | Eve Polycarpou | Ian Matthews | Leon Stenning | Martha D Lewis | Matthew Mason | Nick Cohen

Budd

Rating: ★★★

UK-Cypriot singer and songwriter Martha D Lewis stands out from the ‘female jazz vocalist’ crowd for two reasons: one is...

Reviewed by Jon Clay in issue: June/2022

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