Review of Red Trio & John Butcher: Summer Skyshift

Red Trio & John Butcher: Summer Skyshift

Gabriel Ferrandini | Hermani Faustino | John Butcher | Rodrigo Pinheiro

Clean Feed

Rating: ★★★★

Young Portuguese unit, Red Trio, take the essential energies and instrumentation of a progressive piano trio and unhitch them from...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2016

Review of Get the Blessing: Astronautilus

Get the Blessing: Astronautilus

Clive Deamer | Jake McMurchie | Jim Barr | Pete Judge

Naim

Rating: ★★★

The west country-based foursome Get the Blessing's 2014 CD Lope and Antilope was arguably the highlight of their recording output...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2015

Review of Asha Parkinson's Kalpadruma: Onwards

Asha Parkinson's Kalpadruma: Onwards

Ali Watson | Andrew Liddell | Asha Parkinson | Ben Crane | Brenda Jean Carey | Charlie Heywood | Daniel Swani | Dave Adsett | Eliza Oakes | Elsa Hackett

Self-release

Rating: ★★★

And the talent keeps coming. Asha Parkinson's credentials are impressive: a stalwart of NYJO, a first-class degree from Guildhall, teachers...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2023

Review of Thelonious Monk Trio: Complete 1951-54 Recordings

Thelonious Monk Trio: Complete 1951-54 Recordings

Al McKibbon | Art Blakey | Gary Mapp | Max Roach | Nelson Boyd | Percy Heath | Thelonious Monk

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

This public-domain expansion of the classic Prestige album adds a couple of related tracks from Blue Note sessions otherwise mainly...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2011

Review of Sean Foran and Stuart McCallum: Counterpart

Sean Foran and Stuart McCallum: Counterpart

John Parker | Sam Vicary | Sean Foran | Stuart McCallum

Naim

Rating: ★★★

The gentle strengths of this collaboration are captured in the song titles: ‘Quiet Times’, ‘While The Trees Waltz’ and ‘Skydancer’....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2019

Review of Nérija

Nérija

Cassie Kinoshi | Inga Eichler | Lizy Exell | Nubya Garcia | Rosie Turton | Sheila Maurice-Grey | Shirley Tetteh

self-released

Rating: ★★★★

Three of this septet – Tetteh, Turton and Garcia – were among the Venus Warriors that Courtney Pine introduced at...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2017

Review of Jacob Young: Forever Young

Jacob Young: Forever Young

Jacob Young | Marcin Wasilewski | Michal Miskiewicz | Slawomir Kurkiewicz | Trygve Seim

ECM

Rating: ★★★

On this, his third album for ECM, the Norwegian guitarist Jacob Young is joined by saxophonist Trygve Seim, whom he...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2014

Review of Hannes Bennich: When Losing A Dream To Reality

Hannes Bennich: When Losing A Dream To Reality

Britta Virves | Emil Norman | Hannes Bennich | Helen Salim | Tomas Sjödell

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★

There’s an inviting warmth to the sound of this album, thanks presumably to Stockholm’s Yardhouse Studio, giving a rounded fullness...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: November/2022

Review of The Gerry Mulligan Sextet: Night Lights + Butterfly With Hiccups

The Gerry Mulligan Sextet: Night Lights + Butterfly With Hiccups

Art Farmer | Bill Crow | Bob Brookmeyer | Dave Bailey | Gerry Mulligan | Hal Blaine | Jim Hall | Jimmy Bond | John Gray | Mulligan

Jazz Up! JU!

Rating: ★★★★

Two ex-Limelight albums combined, and featuring the short-lived 1960s Mulligan sextet, together with a couple of live tracks for good...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2021

Review of Bill Laurance: Flint

Bill Laurance: Flint

Bill Laurance | Brian Donohoe | Chris Bullock | Curtis Stewart | Eylem Basaldi | Henry Flory | JY Lee | Magda Ginnikou | Maria Im | Maria Jeffers

groundUP (CD and DVD)

Rating: ★★★★

Cracking the nut that is creating organically hewn, as opposed to factory processed, jazz dance music is something that countless...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: August/2014

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