Monty Alexander: Rass! featuring Ernest Ranglin
It delivers what it says on the tin or in this instance the card slip case that houses this CD,...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2015
Michael Bates: One From None
Jeff Davis | Michael Bates | Michael Blake | Russ Lossing | Samuel Blaser
The final piece on this album ‘It Began To Get Dark’ is, whether intentionally or not, something of a leitmotiv...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2013
Ben Crosland Quintet: Solway Stories
Ben Crosland | Chris Allard | Dylan Howe | Steve Waterman | Steve Lodder
All musicians should dedicate at least one album to their mum. This one is dedicated to Huddersfield bassist and bandleader...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2021
Freddy Cole: My Mood Is You
Elias Bailey | Freddy Cole | Joel Frahm | John di Martino | Quentin Baxter | Randy Napoleon
Aged 86 and a three-time Grammy nominee, on the Carl Sigman penned album opener and title-track Freddy Cole effortlessly highlights...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2018
Bill O’Connell: A Change Is Gonna Come
Bill O’Connell | Craig Handy | Lincoln Goines | Pedrito Martinez | Steve Jordan
Prior to this, I knew nothing of O’Connell but Wikipedia tells me that he’s principally associated with Latin jazz and...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2022
Defibrillator & Peter Brötzmann: Conversations About Not Eating Meat
Artur Smolyn | Oliver Steidle | Peter Brötzmann | Sebastian Smolyn
If Peter Brötzmann has been showing something of a lyrical sweet-tooth in recent times – such as in his duet...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2016
Céline Bonacina Trio: Open Heart
This a better rounded album than Bonacina's debut Way of Life, simply because the combination of saxophone, bass and drums...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2013
Da Lata: Fabiola
The British outfit that brought a vibrant, contemporary slant to Brazilian music throughout the 1990s return with an album that...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Tom Prehn Quartet: Centrifuga & Solhverv
Finn Slumstrup | Fritz Kogh | Poul Ehlers | Tom Prehn
Until recently, the self-titled 1967 album by Danish pianist Tom Prehn’s free-jazz quartet was the group’s only available document. Then,...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2022
Preservation Hall Jazz Band: That's It!
Here's more of Ben Jaffe's re-envisioning of the PHJB as an ensemble with contemporary relevance. Still rooted in the Hall's...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2014
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