Review of Joey DeFrancesco: More Music

Joey DeFrancesco: More Music

Joey DeFrancesco | Lucas Brown | Michael Ode

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★

Joey DeFrancesco first emerged on to the scene as a ‘Hammond organ prodigy’ – he was invited to join Miles...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Review of Matthew Goodheart & The Broken Ghost Consort: Presences

Matthew Goodheart & The Broken Ghost Consort: Presences

Georg Wissel | George Cremaschi | Matthew Goodheart | Matthias Muche | Melvyn Poore

Infrequent Seams

Rating: ★★★

You don’t need a degree in electro-acoustic sound engineering to appreciate what’s going on here, but it probably helps.Goodheart’s piece...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2021

Review of Eric Alexander Trio: Just One Of Those Things

Eric Alexander Trio: Just One Of Those Things

Dezron Douglas | Eric Alexander | Neal Smith

Venus Records

Rating: ★★★

Eric Alexander gets to his inner John Coltrane from the first notes of ‘Just One of Those Things’ to the...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2017

Review of Stefano Battaglia Trio: Songways

Stefano Battaglia Trio: Songways

Roberto Dani | Salvatore Maiore | Stefano Battaglia

ECM 372 4554

Rating: ★★★★

There is a certain unaffected dignity about this swift follow-up to the trio's earlier outing, The River of Anyder. Battaglia...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: May/2013

Review of Basquiat Strings: Part Two

Basquiat Strings: Part Two

Amanda Drummond | Ben Davis | Dave Smith | Emma Smith | Jennymay Logan | Richard Pryce | Seb Rochford | Vicky Fifield

F-IRE

Rating: ★★★★

I saw Basquiat Strings at Bexhill’s De La Warr Pavilion in 2008, not long after they were nominated for the...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: July/2013

Review of Veronica Swift

Veronica Swift

Adam Klipple | Alex Claffy | Antoine Silverman | Antonio Licusati | Austin Patterson | Benny Benack III | Brian Viglione | Carolynne Framil | Chris Whiteman | David Leon

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★★

Veronica Swift’s professional destiny was never in much doubt: daughter of jazz singer Stephanie Nakasian, who toured with Jon Hendricks,...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: November/2023

Review of Art Tatum/Ben Webster: The Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet

Art Tatum/Ben Webster: The Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet

Art Tatum | Ben Webster | Bill Douglass | Jo Jones | Ray Brown | Red Callendar | Teddy Wilson

State of Art

Rating: ★★★★

The core of this elegantly packaged release is the seven-track album cut by Tatum and Webster in 1956, and which...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2019

Review of Edgar Knecht: Dance on Deep Waters

Edgar Knecht: Dance on Deep Waters

Edgar Knecht | Rolf Denecke | Stephan Emig | Tobias Schulte

Ozella

Rating: ★★★★

There is no doubt that Germany is the sleeping giant of the European jazz scene; there are just so many...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2013

Review of Speak Low: Speak Low II

Speak Low: Speak Low II

Kit Downes | Lucia Cadotsch | Lucy Railton | Otis Sandsjö | Petter Eldh

WeJazz

Rating: ★★★★

This trio of double bass, saxophone and voice entwine so closely that even the most melancholic of tracks feel like...

Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: February/2021

Review of Vince Guaraldi: It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown

Vince Guaraldi: It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown

Conte Candoli | Frank Rosolino | Herb Ellis | Jack Sperling | Monty Budwig | Pete Candoli | Peter Christlieb | Victor Feldman | Vince Guaraldi | William Hood

Editor's Choice

LFMP

Rating: ★★★

The thing about movie or TV music cues is that they are usually rather short, and the segments of Vince...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: May/2024

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