Review of Alan Broadbent Trio: New York Notes

Alan Broadbent Trio: New York Notes

Alan Broadbent | Billy Mintz | Harvie S

Editor's Choice

Savant

Rating: ★★★★

Most recently, New Zealand-born Broadbent, long known as a front-rank arranger of strings and accompanist to prominent singers, as well...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2019

Review of John Coltrane Quartet: The 1962 Graz Concert (Complete Edition)

John Coltrane Quartet: The 1962 Graz Concert (Complete Edition)

Elvin Jones | Jimmy Garrison | John Coltrane | McCoy Tyner

In Crowd

Rating: ★★★

Coltrane's winter 1962 tour has yielded a large trove of classic material – 17 November, Paris (Pablo); 19 November, Stockholm...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2015

Review of Orrin Evans: Flip the Script

Orrin Evans: Flip the Script

Ben Wolfe | Donald Edwards | Orrin Evans

Posi-Tone

Rating: ★★★★

When Orrin Evans was making records for Criss Cross in the late-1990s, you always felt there was potentially something very...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2012

Review of Wolfgang Muthspiel: Angular Blues

Wolfgang Muthspiel: Angular Blues

Brian Blade | Scott Colley | Wolfgang Muthspiel

Rating: ★★★

In 2014, the lyrical, meticulously nuanced music of the Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel found its way to the ECM label...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2020

Review of Lol Coxhill: Ear Of The Beholder

Lol Coxhill: Ear Of The Beholder

Dave Bedford | Lol Coxhill

Esoteric Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Where Coxhill’s credentials need little explication, a hero of free improvisation that he made (and makes) joyously accessible to the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2011

Review of Eve Risser/Benjamin Duboc/Edward Perraud: En Corps Generation

Eve Risser/Benjamin Duboc/Edward Perraud: En Corps Generation

Benjamin Duboc | Edward Perraud | Eve Risser

Dark Tree

Rating: ★★★★

The French pianist-composer Eve Risser is first and foremost a sound explorer. Last year's White Desert Orchestra CD Les Deux...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Review of Stian Westerhus: Amputation

Stian Westerhus: Amputation

Stian Westerhus

House Of Mythology

Rating: ★★★★

Didymoi Dreams, Westerhus’s 2013 collaboration with vocalist Sidsel Endresen was as uncompromising and forbidding as Norwegian jazz gets. This solo...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2016

Review of Art Blakey/Duke Jordan: Les Liaisons Dangereuses + Des Femmes Disparaissent

Art Blakey/Duke Jordan: Les Liaisons Dangereuses + Des Femmes Disparaissent

Art Blakey | Art Taylor | Barney Wilen | Benny Golson | Bobby Timmons | Charlie Rouse | Clark Terry | Duke Jordan | Eddie Khan | Johnny Rodriguez

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

With the recent release on Sam Records of Thelonious Monk's music for Les Liaisons Dangereuses 1960 (as the film was...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2019

Review of Stan Getz/Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Stitt: For Musicians Only

Stan Getz/Dizzy Gillespie/Sonny Stitt: For Musicians Only

Connie Kay | Dizzy Gillespie | Herb Ellis | John Lewis | Percy Heath | Ray Brown | Sonny Stitt | Stan Getz | Stan Levey

Editor's Choice

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★

OK, here it is; the ultimate speed-demon slug-out between two of bebop's leading lights and the then king of the...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: October/2019

Review of Curtis Fuller Quintet: Blues-ette

Curtis Fuller Quintet: Blues-ette

Al Harewood | Benny Golson | Curtis Fuller | Flanagan | Fuller | George Tucker | Jimmy Garrison | Louis Hayes | Sonny Red | Tommy Flanagan

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

Here’s Fuller in his 1950s heyday when he seemed to be perpetually in the New York studios cutting albums for...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2022

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