Review of Atlantic Bridge

Atlantic Bridge

Daryl Runswick | Jim Philip | Mike McNaught | Mike Travis

Esoteric Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Long lusted after on the vinyl market, this is the first CD release of a re-mastered version of the original...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2018

Review of Kjetil Husebø: Years of Ambiguity

Kjetil Husebø: Years of Ambiguity

Arve Henriksen | Eivind Aarset | Kjetil Husebø

NXN Recordings

Rating: ★★★

This enigmatically-titled album opens with ‘Inhale’, an all-Norwegian collaboration between composer/producer Kjetil Husebø, guitarist Eivind Aarset and trumpeter Arve Henriksen....

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: August/2023

Review of Red Mitchell and Jim Hall: Rejoice!

Red Mitchell and Jim Hall: Rejoice!

Carl Perkins | Frank Butler | Frank Strazzeri | Jim Hall | Jimmy Bond | Red Kelly | Red Mitchell

Fresh Sound

Rating: ★★★★

Here's yet another Fresh Sound package culled from the vaults, the fruits of three Pacific Jazz LP releases by the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2017

Review of Tubby Hayes Quartet: Grits, Beans and Greens: The Lost Fontana Studio Sessions 1969

Tubby Hayes Quartet: Grits, Beans and Greens: The Lost Fontana Studio Sessions 1969

Mick Pyne | Ron Matthewson | Spike Wells | Tubby Hayes

Fontana (LP/CD)

Rating: ★★★★

It's long been rumoured there was a Tubby Hayes quartet session recorded for the Fontana label sitting unreleased in Universal's...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2019

Review of Mark Nightingale/Alistair White: The Sound of Jay & Kai

Mark Nightingale/Alistair White: The Sound of Jay & Kai

Alec Dankworth | Alistair White | Clark Tracey | Graham Harvey | Mark Nightingale

Woodville

Rating: ★★★

Two of our best contemporary trombone men in, inevitably, a tribute to the long-gone duo of JJ Johnson and Kai...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2014

Review of Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvær featuring Eivind Aarset & Vladislav Delay: Nordub

Sly & Robbie meet Nils Petter Molvær featuring Eivind Aarset & Vladislav Delay: Nordub

Eivind Aarset | Nils Petter Molvær | Robbie Shakespeare | Sly Dunbar | Vladislav Delay

OKeh

Rating: ★★

Presentations of the union of Jamaica's “riddim twins” Sly & Robbie and Norway's jazz-tech champions, trumpeter Nils Pettar Molvær and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2018

Review of AKA Trio: Joy

AKA Trio: Joy

Adriano Adewale | Antonio Forcione | Seckou Keita

Bendigedig (CD)

Rating: ★★★★

What with all the misery going on in the world, it's heartening to see the concept of joy being presented...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2019

Review of Daniel Herskedal: The Roc

Daniel Herskedal: The Roc

Bergmund Waal Skaslien | Daniel Herskedal | Eyolf Dale | Helge Andreas Norbakken | Svante Henryson

Edition Records

Rating: ★★★

Musically educated in Trondheim and Copenhagen, Daniel Herskedal is taking the tuba in directions and to places undreamt of by...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2017

Review of Paul Motian: Standards Plus One

Paul Motian: Standards Plus One

Bill Frisell | Charlie Haden | Joe Lovano | Lee Konitz | Paul Motian

Winter & Winter

Rating: ★★★★

Why break a butterfly on a wheel or try to analyse the fragile beauties of these extraordinary recordings? If ever...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2015

Review of EST: 301

EST: 301

Dan Berglund | Esbjörn Svensson | Magnus Öström

ACT

Rating: ★★★★

Is this some of the finest moments from EST? Quite probably the verdict visited by posterity will be yes, as...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2012

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