Steve Melling: Keys To The Upper Story
Melling's work with Peter King, Alan Skidmore and Clark Tracey has led to some people taking his excellent pianism for...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2013
Meg Morley Trio: Can't Get Started
Emiliano Caroselli | Meg Morley | Richard Sadler
A sometime pianist for silent-cinema by night, Morley swiftly followed 2017's solo piano debut Through the Hours by forming a...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2018
Claire Daly Quintet: 2648 West Grand Boulevard
Claire Daly | Jerome Harris | Mary Ann McSweeney | Peter Grant | Steve Hudson
Arriving as a seeming response to our March reader's letter about Motown, this album (though doubtless recorded earlier) refers in...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2017
Bill Frisell: Floratone II
Frisell's contribution to American music, especially over the last decade, cannot be doubted. So here's the heresy: Floratone just don't...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2012
Oscar Peterson: Plays The Cole Porter Songbook
Alvin Stoller | Barney Kessel | Ed Thigpen | Herb Ellis | Oscar Peterson | Ray Brown
This is a typically well-researched and intelligently assembled compilation from the people who process their productions through Andorra. It leads...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2022
Billy Taylor Trio: With Candido
Billy Taylor | Candido Camero | Earl May | Percy Brice
Leading off with the not-yet-standard ‘Mambo Inn’, this early LP (originally a 10-inch, then bumped up to a 32-minute 12-inch,...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2012
Actis Dato: Earth Is The Place
Beppe Di Filippo | Carlo Actis Dato | Daniele Bertone | Matteo Ravizza
Although little known in Britain, Dato makes music of absolutely joyous abandon which would get the most leaden-footed of punters...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2015
David Torn: Only Sky
If you want to know what David Torn, a film composer and guitarist who has worked with David Bowie, Ryuichi...
Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: July/2015
Omer Avital: Suite of the East
Avishai Cohen | Daniel Freedman | Joel Frahm | Omer Avital | Omer Klein
The sessions that comprise Suite of the East date back to 2006, following this band's month-long residency at Small's in...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2012
Jeff Baker: Phrases
“The musical side of composing – creating melodies, reharmonising music – has always come pretty easy to me,” says Jeff...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2018
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