Review of Cheer-Accident: Putting Off Death

Cheer-Accident: Putting Off Death

Beth Yates | Carmen Armilias | Cory Bengsten | Dante Kester | Jeff Libersher | Joan Morrone | Mike Hegedorn | Rob Pleshar | Ross Feller | Sacha Mullin

Cuneiform

Rating: ★★★

If you've been holding your breath since the Accident's last outing, you're doubtless a shade purple as six years have...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2017

Review of Miles Davis & Cannonball Adderley: Somethin' Else

Miles Davis & Cannonball Adderley: Somethin' Else

Art Blakey | Cannonball Adderley | Hank Jones | Jimmy Cobb | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | Sam Jones | Sonny Stitt | Wynton Kelly

American Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

First of all, the billing is something else – this was Cannonball's session and his was the credit, with the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2019

Review of Lester Young: Complete Live At The Argyle 1950

Lester Young: Complete Live At The Argyle 1950

Jessie Drake | Jo Jones | Joe Shulman | Kenny Drew | Lester Young

Solar

Rating: ★★

As Lester Young entered the last decade of his often turbulent life, it became obvious that he was in decline...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2016

Review of Jamie Cullum: Pointless Nostalgic

Jamie Cullum: Pointless Nostalgic

Ben Castle | Dave O’Higgins | Geoff Gascoyne | Jamie Cullum | Martin Gladdish | Martin Shaw | Matt Wates | Sebastiaan de Krom

Candid

Rating: ★★★★

Reviewing Jamie Cullum’s debut album for Candid in the September 2002 edition of Jazzwise, I noted that his “mellifluous tone,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2023

Review of Teresa Brewer: The Songs Of Bessie Smith/It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

Teresa Brewer: The Songs Of Bessie Smith/It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing

Count Basie | Duke Ellington | Teresa Brewer | Thad Jones

Ace Records

Rating: ★★★★

As the jazz critic Nat Hentoff writes in the original liner notes, “I can't recall any evolution quite like that...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2015

Review of Outside Line: Introducing Outside Line

Outside Line: Introducing Outside Line

Dave Walsh | Garry Jackson | Jamie Taylor | Matt Anderson

GLP Records

Rating: ★★★

Highly praised for his contributions as guitarist with the Jamil Sheriff Big Band, Jamie Taylor also happens to lecture at...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2014

Review of Ben Webster: Ben Webster & Associates

Ben Webster: Ben Webster & Associates

Ben Webster | Budd Johnson | Coleman Hawkins | Jimmy Jones | Jo Jones | Les Spann | Ray Brown | Roy Eldridge

Poll Winners Records

Rating: ★★★★

With hindsight, not all of Leonard Feather's pronouncements have stood the test of time. However, when he wrote on the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2018

Review of Lol Coxhill: Ear Of The Beholder

Lol Coxhill: Ear Of The Beholder

Dave Bedford | Lol Coxhill

Esoteric Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Where Coxhill’s credentials need little explication, a hero of free improvisation that he made (and makes) joyously accessible to the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2011

Review of Big Screen: Take One

Big Screen: Take One

Dave Newton | Matt Skelton | Tom Farmer

Linn

Rating: ★★★

It's funny how an unapologetically glossy traditional piano trio take on popular TV and film themes can start to sound...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Review of Stan Sulzmann/Nikki Iles: Lush Life

Stan Sulzmann/Nikki Iles: Lush Life

Dave Holland | Nikki Iles | Stan Sulzmann

Jellymould

Rating: ★★★

Stan Sulzmann and Nikki Iles showed just how much lyrical imagination, restrained virtuosity and empathy they possess as a sax/...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2020

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