QOW Trio: The Hold Up
Eddie Myer | Riley Stone-Lonergan | Spike Wells
Spike Wells came to jazz on the 1960s bandstand with Bobby Wellins and Tubby Hayes, Eddie Myer out of autodidactic...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2024
Avishai Cohen: Ashes to Gold
Avishai Cohen | Barak Mori | Yonathan Avishai | Ziv Ravitz
It takes guts for an artist to speak out against their own government, but Avishai Cohen, the Tel Aviv-based trumpeter,...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: November/2024
Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Thomas Morgan, Andrew Cyrille: Taking Turns
Andrew Cyrille | Bill Frisell | Jakob Bro | Jason Moran | Lee Konitz | Thomas Morgan
It’s amazing to think that Lee Konitz, with his distinctively questioning, interior sound, played with Miles and Mulligan at the...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: December/2024
Brubeck Bothers Quartet/Paul English Quartet/Horace Alexander Young / Houston Chamber Choir/Robert Simpson: The Voice of
Alongside his scintillating work in a variety of small groups, Dave Brubeck wrote and performed on a far larger scale,...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2025
Kate Westbrook/The Granite Band: Earth Felt the Wound
Kate Westbrook returns with the Granite band that so powerfully debuted with the album of that name. But where Granite...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2020
Nicholas Payton: Afro-Caribbean Mixtape
Payton's interest in West Indian music has surfaced on numerous occasions during his two-decade career, but this is the most...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2017
Michele Rosewoman's New Yor-Uba: 30 Years: A Musical Celebration of Cuba in America
Exactly 30 years ago, pianist Michele Rosewoman received financial support from the National Endowment for the Arts to pioneer a...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2014
Chris Potter: The Sirens
Chris Potter | Craig Taborn | David Virelles | Eric Harland | Larry Grenadier
Chris Potter is one of the very few contemporary heavyweights in the big US tenor tradition. As a sax sideman...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013
Various Artists: Twenty Five Magic Years: The ACT Jubilee Album
Twenty-five years and still going strong is a major achievement for any independent record label, never mind an independent jazz...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2017
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Ella and Louis: The Complete Norman Granz Sessions
This 3CD set brings together the two albums that Ella and Louis made with the Oscar Peterson Quartet (with either...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2017
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