Henry Spencer: The Defector
Andrew Robb | Ant Law | David Ingamells | Henry Spencer | Matt Robinson
Henry Spencer has ploughed his own furrow, at once thoroughly connected with, and set apart from, the rest of the...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: October/2023
Barney Kessel: The Contemporary Years – Selected Recordings 1953-57
Kessel’s Contemporary albums have often been reissued, what with an earlier series on Original Jazz Classics, and then a pair...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2024
Petter Eldh’s Koma Saxo: Koma West
The Swedish Berlin-based Petter Eldh is as inventive as he is prolific. He’s a genre-busting adventurer, more known as a...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2022
Spirit: It Shall Be: The Ode & Epic Recordings 1968-1972
Originally called Spirits Rebellious, after a book of short stories by Lebanese-American writer Khalil Gibran, this phenomenal 1960s US psychedelic...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2018
Magnus Bakken Quartet featuring George Garzone: Cycles
Christian Meaas Svendsen | George Garzone | Jon Audun Baar | Jørn Ølen | Magnus Bakken
Norwegian saxophonist Bakken spent four years at Berklee, where Garzone was one of his teachers, and this debut album neatly...
Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: March/2016
David Sylvian: Blemish
David Sylvian's journey from pretty pop idol to the outer reaches of the avant-garde is equalled by few other musicians:...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2022
Stan Getz: Jazz Giants '58
Jazz Giants ’58 has always been a classic, a Norman Granz collation that needs very little extra endorsement from me....
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2013
Chet Baker/Wolfgang Lackerschmid: Artists Favor
Once he was cut loose from Pacific Jazz and left to fend for himself (mainly) in Europe, there was absolutely...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2015
Eric Reed Quartet: Everybody Gets The Blues
Eric Reed | McClenty Hunter | Mike Gurrola | Tim Green
Reed writes eloquently and touchingly about his religious faith in his lengthy album essay. The son and grandson of devout...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2019
In Common: Walter Smith III, Matthew Stevens, Joel Ross, Harish Raghavan and Marcus Gilmore
Harish Raghavan | Joel Ross | Marcus Gilmore | Matthew Stevens | Walter Smith III
Saxophonist Walter Smith III’s evocative low-lights tenor sound and drily quixotic irregularities of phrasing have already graced a fine album...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019
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