Review of Esther Bennett: Home Is Where The Art Is

Esther Bennett: Home Is Where The Art Is

Duncan Lamont Jr | Esther Bennett | Terence Collie

33 Jazz Records

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Vince Mendoza: Nights on Earth

Vince Mendoza: Nights on Earth

Bob Mintzer | Christian McBride | Joe Lovano | John Abercrombie | John Scofield | Kenny Werner | Larry Goldings | Nguyên Lê | Peter Erskine | Vince Mendoza

Art of Groove

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Humphrey Lyttelton: In Canada

Humphrey Lyttelton: In Canada

Ed Bickert | Humphrey Lyttelton | Jim Galloway | Neil Swainson | Terry Clarke

Sackville SK

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Food: This is Not a Miracle

Food: This is Not a Miracle

Christian Fennesz | Iain Ballamy | Thomas Strøenen

ECM

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Julian Shore: Where We Started

Julian Shore: Where We Started

Julian Shore

Tone Rouge

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Eric Reed and Cyrus Chestnut: Plenty Swing, Plenty Soul

Eric Reed and Cyrus Chestnut: Plenty Swing, Plenty Soul

Cyrus Chestnut | Dezron Douglas | Eric Reed | Willie Jones III

Savant

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Zoot Sims Quartet: Live In Louisville 1968

Zoot Sims Quartet: Live In Louisville 1968

Jack Brengle | John Ray | Louis Knipp | Zoot Sims

Gambit Records

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Kandace Springs: Indigo

Kandace Springs: Indigo

Kandace Springs

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Al Jarreau & NDR Bigband: Ellington

Al Jarreau & NDR Bigband: Ellington

Al Jarreau | Jörg Achim Keller | NDR Bigband

ACT Music

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Cannonball Adderley/John Coltrane Quintet: In Chicago

Cannonball Adderley/John Coltrane Quintet: In Chicago

Albert Heath | Cannonball Adderley | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Pau Chambers | Percy Heath | Wynton Kelly

20th Century Masterworks

Rating: ★★★★

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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