Review of Serge Chaloff: Boss Baritone

Serge Chaloff: Boss Baritone

Al Cohn | Al Haig | Allen Eager | Artie Bernstein | Barbara Carroll | Bennie Green | Bill Harris | Boots Mussulli | Bud Powell | Buddy Jones

Properbox

Rating: ★★★★

One of Woody Herman’s original sainted Four Brothers, poll winning baritone saxist Serge Chaloff had it all: a sharp dresser,...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2011

Review of Gordon Beck Quartet: When Sunny Gets Blue: Spring 68 Sessions Featuring Joy Marshall

Gordon Beck Quartet: When Sunny Gets Blue: Spring 68 Sessions Featuring Joy Marshall

Gordon Beck | Jeff Clyne | John McLaughlin | Joy Marshall | Tony Oxley

Turtle TUR

Rating: ★★★

It's possible to argue that in many ways some of pianist Gordon Beck’s finest playing was during the three years...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2018

Review of Kyle Eastwood: Eastwood Symphonic

Kyle Eastwood: Eastwood Symphonic

Andrew McCormack | Brandon Allen | Chris Higginbottom | Kyle Eastwood | Quentin Collins | the Czech National Symphony Orchestra

Discograph

Rating: ★★★

With the bassist Kyle Eastwood’s passion for both film and jazz, it seemed inevitable that at some point in his...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2023

Review of Jamie Saft/Steve Swallow/Bobby Previte: Loneliness Road

Jamie Saft/Steve Swallow/Bobby Previte: Loneliness Road

Bobby Previte | Iggy Pop | Jamie Saft | Steve Swallow

RareNoiseRecords

Rating: ★★★★

When Saft and his trio went into the recording studios in 2014 to record The New Standard its success was...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2017

Review of Paul Desmond: First Place Again

Paul Desmond: First Place Again

Connie Kay | Jim Hall | Paul Desmond | Percy Heath

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★

Paul Desmond and Jim Hall collaborated on a whole series of ‘mood jazz’ albums on the RCA label in the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2019

Review of Benito Gonzalez: Sing to the World

Benito Gonzalez: Sing to the World

Nicholas Payton

Rainy Days Records Rainy

Rating: ★★★

Encountering Venezuelan pianist Benito Gonzalez as an exciting McCoy Tyner-steeped thirtysomething with Kenny Garrett's band at Ronnie's in 2006, it...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2021

Review of Mathias Eick: When We Leave

Mathias Eick: When We Leave

Andreas Norbakken | Andreas Ulvo | Audun Erlien | Hàkon Aase | Mathias Eick | Stian Carstensen | Torstein Lofthus

ECM 2660

Rating: ★★★

The Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick is part of the ECM label’s new post-millennium generation of Euro-jazzers, originally making his name...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021

Review of Tommaso Starace Harmony Less Quartet: Narrow Escape

Tommaso Starace Harmony Less Quartet: Narrow Escape

Dave O'Higgins | Davide Liberti | Ruben Bellavia | Tommaso Starace

Music Center

Rating: ★★★

Milan-born and UK-educated saxophonist Tommaso Starace makes his devotion to hard bop pretty clear on Narrow Escape, but it's no...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2019

Review of Cannonball Adderley: Swingin’ In Seattle: Live at The Penthouse 1966-1967

Cannonball Adderley: Swingin’ In Seattle: Live at The Penthouse 1966-1967

Cannonball Adderley | Joe Zawinul | Nat Adderley | Roy McCurdy | Victor Gaskin

Reel to Real

Rating: ★★★★

In the current climate of rediscovered tapes, ‘lost’ recordings and archive trawling, fans of Cannonball Adderley might think themselves a...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: March/2019

Review of Dayna Stephens: The Nepenthetic Place

Dayna Stephens: The Nepenthetic Place

Ambrose Akinmusire | Dayna Stephens | Gretchen Parlato | Jaleel Shaw | Joe Sanders | Justin Brown | Taylor Eigisti

Sunnyside

Rating: ★★★

Glib as it may sound, a marketing department may bill this as 1960s modernism àla Miles, Herbie, Evans et al,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2013

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