Various Artists: Jazz on Film… Film Noir
You just have to look at the subtitle to know how this goes: criminals, murderers, bent cops, drugs and jazzers...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012
Fabien Mary & The Vintage Orchestra: Too Short
French trumpeter-arranger Mary is best known as a small group leader but also plays regularly in the top Parisian big...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2021
Lara Jones: Lara, A Piano At Night
A live solo piano performance might surprise fans of Lara Jones and J Frisco, the contemporary post-jazz band she's most...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: May/2021
Tuba Skinny: Magnolia Stroll
There’s a reason that traditional jazz bands abandoned the tuba in the late 1930s, which is that it constipates the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2022
Mammal Hands: Gifts From The Trees
Jesse Barratt | Jordan Smart | Nick Smart
Gifts From The Trees, Mammal Hands’ fifth album saw them working in a Welsh residential studio, watching the seasons pass...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2023
Don Cherry: Organic Music Society
The great champion of the most universal of universal sounds is caught on masterful form, proving that borders between both...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2012
Don Ellis: The New Ellis Band Goes Underground/Don Ellis At Fillmore
Don Ellis knew he was fronting a big band in a brave, post-Kentonesque new era. He had done time with...
Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: June/2014
Scott Hamilton Quartet: Dean Street Nights
Dave Green | John Pearce | Scott Hamilton | Steve Brown
Here's a man who knows what he does best and is content with that. Hamilton, shortly to be 60, has...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2014
Maria Chiara Argirò: Hidden Seas
Andrea Di Base | Gaspar Sena | Leïla Martial | Maria Chiara Argirò | Sam Rapley | Tal Janes
Like a bundle of letters tied with string, this album emanates personal nostalgia; the object of Maria Chiara Argirò's reflections...
Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: November/2019
Eric Dolphy: Eric Dolphy Musical Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Sessions
Originally recorded for Alan Douglas’ Douglas label, Eric Dolphy Jazz Prophet: The Expanded 1963 New York Sessionsis a deluxe, limited-edition...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019
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