Review of WorldService Project: Fire in a Pet Shop

WorldService Project: Fire in a Pet Shop

Conor Chaplin | Dave Morecroft | Neil Blandford | Raphael Clarkson | Tim Ower

Megasound

Rating: ★★★

London quintet WorldService Project’s debut album proper makes good on the promise shown by the handful of EPs they’ve already...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2013

Review of Anaïs Reno: At PizzaExpress Live - In London

Anaïs Reno: At PizzaExpress Live - In London

Anaïs Reno | Dave Green | Josh Morrison | Pete Malinverni

Editor's Choice

PX Records

Rating: ★★★★

As anyone who heard Swiss-born, NYC-based vocalist Anaïs Reno’s debut album, Lovesome Thing, will know, her musicality at the age...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2024

Review of Various Artists: All Night Long OST

Various Artists: All Night Long OST

Allan Ganley | Charles Mingus | Colin Purbrook | Dave Brubeck | Johnny Dankworth | Johnny Scott | Kenny Napper | Stan Roderick | Tubby Hayes

Harkit

Rating: ★★★

Originally released on CD in 2004, the 1960s soundtrack CD specialist label Harkit reissue this British jazz soundtrack: a fascinating...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Review of Joe Farrell: Penny Arcade/Upon This Rock/Canned Funk

Joe Farrell: Penny Arcade/Upon This Rock/Canned Funk

Don Alias | Herb Bushier | Herbie Hancock | Jim Madison | Joe Beck | Joe Farrell | Ray Mantilla | Steve Gadd

Rating: ★★★

When Corea replaced Joe Farrell in Return to Forever with Bill Connors’ rock-angled guitar, it changed not only jazz (fusion)...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Review of Pat Metheny: Side-Eye – NYC (V1–IV)

Pat Metheny: Side-Eye – NYC (V1–IV)

James Francies | Marcus Gilmore | Pat Metheny

Editor's Choice

BMG/Modern Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Our received notions of Pat Metheny is that there is not one, but two Pat Methenys. There’s the Pat Metheny...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2021

Review of Calum Gourlay: Live At The Ridgeway

Calum Gourlay: Live At The Ridgeway

Calum Gourlay

Two Rivers Records

Rating: ★★★★

Master musicians such as Dave Holland, William Parker and Henry Grimes have proved the acoustic bass can have a mesmerising,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Review of Noah Preminger & Kim Cass: Thunda

Noah Preminger & Kim Cass: Thunda

Noah Preminger

Dry Bridge Records

Rating: ★★★★

Reeds maestro Noah Preminger and bassist Kim Cass are go-to musicians in New York left-field jazz, The better-known Preminger has...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2021

Review of Jamie Saft Quartet: Hidden Corners

Jamie Saft Quartet: Hidden Corners

Bradley Christopher Jones | Dave Liebman | Hamid Drake | Jamie Saft

RareNoiseRecords

Rating: ★★★★

Since he began his relationship with RareNoiseRecords, Jamie Saft has come up with a series of well crafted, conceptually original...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2019

Review of WorldService Project: Serve

WorldService Project: Serve

Arthur O'Hara | Dave Morecroft | Harry Pope | Raphael Clarkson | Tim Ower

RareNoiseRecords

Rating: ★★★★

Co-produced by Liran Donin of punk-jazz fellow-travellers Led Bib, WorldService Project's fourth album is concerned with psychology and politics as...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: July/2018

Review of Album Interview: Ian Shaw & Tony Kofi: An Adventurous Dream - The Music Of Billy Strayhorn And Duke Ellington (At Pizza

Album Interview: Ian Shaw & Tony Kofi: An Adventurous Dream - The Music Of Billy Strayhorn And Duke Ellington (At Pizza

Barry Green | Dave Green | Ian Shaw | Tony Kofi

PX Records

Rating: ★★★★

It’s fascinating to compare this powerful collaboration, and it is a real double header with Kofi and Shaw sharing credits,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2024

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