Brian Auger & Julie Tippetts: Encore
Reunion albums rarely rekindle the magic of former glories, often becoming little more than marketing opportunities for the (financially) more...
Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: August/2023
Shirley Scott: Queen Talk: Live at The Left Bank
Bobby Durham | Ernie Andrews | George Coleman | Shirley Scott
The archives of the Left Bank Jazz Society in Baltimore have been the source of several recent albums of live...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2023
Malombo Jazz Makers: Malompo Jazz
Abbey Cindi | Hilda Tloubatla | Julian Bahula | Lucas ‘Lucky’ Ranku
Sometimes, it doesn't matter how good your music is, if luck goes against you, success may prove elusive. Such was...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2023
Louis Armstrong All Stars: Louis In London
Buddy Catlett | Danny Barcelona | Joe Muranyi | Louis Armstrong | Marty Napoleon | Tyree Glenn
Every All Stars concert for many years began with ‘Sleepy Time Down South’ and this one is no exception (the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2024
Bugge Wesseltoft/Henrik Schwarz: Duo II
Norwegian keyboardist/composer Bugge Wesseltoft and German computer musician and producer Henrik Schwarz began their partnership back in 2009, and made...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Scott Willcox Big Band: All Change!
Scott Willcox is a composer and arranger and this is the fourth release by his occasional big band, now effectively...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2018
Ill Considered: Liminal Space
Ill Considered have pursued an underground course, releasing nine raw improvised albums – including a Christmas LP, natch – in...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Woody Shaw: Tokyo 1981
The Shaw quintet that plays six of the seven tracks on this CD is his last regular working group, and...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2018
Dave Douglas Quintet: Brazen Heart Live at Jazz Standard
Dave Douglas | Jon Irabagon | Linda May Han Oh | Matt Mitchell | Rudy Royston
Douglas has been here before of course, releasing a sequence of live recordings from the Jazz Standard with his band...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2019
Melissa Aldana: Visions
Julian Anderson-Bowes | Leland Whitty | Matthew Chalmers | Matthew Tavares
The three-year gap between the 2013 Thelonious Monk Prize winner Melissa Aldana's fifth album, Visions, released on the East coast...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020
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