Chet Baker: The Legendary Riverside Albums
Craft Recordings deals in the boutique end of the jazz reissue market. For £150 you get Chet Baker In New...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: April/2020
Jimmy Greene: While Looking Up
Aaron Goldberg | Jimmy Greene | Kendrick Scott | Lage Lund | Reuben Rogers | Stefon Harris
The heavyweight support on American multi-instrumentalist Jimmy Greene's latest release are long-term acquaintances, who since recording with Greene, have developed...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2020
Michael Nyman Band: Michael Nyman
Lummy, how those 30 years have flown since this first ‘proper’ debut from the Nyman band. It's now handsomely re-packaged...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2012
Szun Waves: Earth Patterns
Jack Wylie | Laurence Pike | Luke Abbott
Szun Waves’ sense of cosmic spirituality loosely compares to The Comet Is Coming, with the latter’s rave apocalypse replaced by...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2022
Dayna Stephens: Right Now! The Dayna Stephens Quartet Live At The Village Vanguard
Aaron Parks | Ben Street | Dayna Stephens | Gregory Hutchinson
DownBeat magazine's critics voted Dayna Stephens Rising Star Tenor Saxophonist in 2019, and since the elegantly powerful, Wayne Shorter-inspired American...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: December/2020
Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition: Agrima
Dan Weiss | Rez Abbasi | Rudresh Mahanthappa
Tied as this project is to the long-running relationship between jazz and Indian music, leader/alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa told his...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2017
Louis Prima: The King of Jumpin’ Swing: Greatest Hits
Although Prima’s little band that played on 52nd Street in the 1930s produced some almost forgotten (and much jazzier) gems,...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2022
Frank Lacy & The Smalls Legacy Band: Live at Smalls
Frank Lacy | Josh Evans | Kush Abadey | Rashaan Carter | Stacy Dillard | Theo Hill
In his own way, Ku-umba Frank Lacy is something of a living legend. The one-time Jazz Messengers' musical director has...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2014
James Brandon Lewis & Chad Taylor: Live in Willisau
Chad Taylor | James Brandon Lewis
Saxophonist James Brandon Lewis is steeped in gospel, schooled in jazz and released his debut album with Gerald Cleaver and...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2020
Joe McPhee: Black Is The Color
Now 80, Joe McPhee remains such a vital presence, live and in the studio, that it would be easy to...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: December/2020
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