Esther Bennett: Home Is Where The Art Is
Duncan Lamont Jr | Esther Bennett | Terence Collie
Esther Bennett describes Home Is Where the Art Is as a ‘labour of love’ and, cliché that that phrase has...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2023
Vince Mendoza: Nights on Earth
Nights on Earth is Mendoza’s eighth album as a leader, and this, together with Blauklang (ACT) from 2008, provide ample...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2011
Humphrey Lyttelton: In Canada
Ed Bickert | Humphrey Lyttelton | Jim Galloway | Neil Swainson | Terry Clarke
Humph journeyed to Canada to appear at a local jazz festival in 1983 and Sackville's John Norris took the opportunity...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2015
Food: This is Not a Miracle
Christian Fennesz | Iain Ballamy | Thomas Strøenen
Formed in 1998, the Anglo-Norwegian jazz electronica ensemble Food are one of the leading European exponents of post-clubland, experimental jazz...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016
Julian Shore: Where We Started
Where We Started is either the third or fourth album by New York-based Shore – an earlier work, Filaments, was...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2020
Eric Reed and Cyrus Chestnut: Plenty Swing, Plenty Soul
Cyrus Chestnut | Dezron Douglas | Eric Reed | Willie Jones III
Only recently it seems I was commending the duo pairing of Hank Jones and Tommy Flanagan as a master-class in...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2010
Zoot Sims Quartet: Live In Louisville 1968
Jack Brengle | John Ray | Louis Knipp | Zoot Sims
When, in 1962, Zoot Sims became the first American musician to officially appear at Ronnie Scott's club it wasn't in...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2012
Kandace Springs: Indigo
Produced by renowned Detroit jazz drummer turned hip-hop producer Karriem Riggins, Indigo is 29-yearold Kandace Springs' follow-up to her critically...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2018
Al Jarreau & NDR Bigband: Ellington
Al Jarreau | Jörg Achim Keller | NDR Bigband
Lovingly performed, beautifully recorded, and possessing that singularly Jarreauesque joyousness throughout, in these and many other ways it would be...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: December/2024
Cannonball Adderley/John Coltrane Quintet: In Chicago
I've long since given up attempting to find the logic in reissue labels like 20th Century Masterworks, the latest in...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: September/2021
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