Nicole Mitchell & Haki Madhubuti: Liberation Narratives
Over the past decade the substantial expansion of Mitchell’s discography has been defined as much by quality as quantity. The...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2018
Luis Russell: At The Swing Cats Ball – Volume 1, 1938-1940
Here's a find – literally. These hitherto unheard live tracks were found recently in a ‘once working musician's’ cupboard, hence...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2023
DOMi & JD Beck: NOT TIGHT
As Gen-Z jazzers go, DOMi & JD Beck are leaders of a new hyper-hip yet virtuosic pack. French keyboardist DOMi...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: October/2022
Chris Hodgkins and His Band: A Salute to Humphrey Lyttelton
Hodgkins, former Director of Jazz Services, has always enjoyed a separate career as a mainstream trumpeter. And a good one,...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2022
Art Pepper: Atlanta: Unreleased Art Pepper Volume 11
Art Pepper's widow Laurie's eleventh volume of archive material gives us an intimate snapshot of the great tenorist's Quartet live...
Reviewed by Alan Barnes in issue: June/2021
Lars Danielsson: Symphonized
Formed in 2012, the well-regarded Swedish bassist Lars Danielsson's Liberetto band's pastoral jazz signature was writ all over 2021's Cloudland...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2023
Flat Earth Society: Boot & Berg/X-Legged Sally/Call Sheets, Riders and Chicken Mushroom
Billing themselves as the creators of ‘the most unreliable music since 1999’, Flat Earth Society (FES) are a multi-media arts...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014
Frank Zappa: The Hot Rats Sessions
Hi kids… There are anthologies, re-mixes, box sets and there is Zappa World. This isn’t as re-issue, it’s an immersive...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2020
Ronnie Scott & The Band: Live At Ronnie Scott's
Bill Laurance | Jonathan Harvey | Marijus Aleksa
Often eclipsed by the club he started in 1959, and his dry, oblique sense of humour, Ronnie Scott was undoubtedly...
Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: April/2020
Michael Dease: Decisions
Glenn Zaleski | Michael Dease | Rodney Whitaker | Tim Green | Ulysses Owens
This is arguably the best straightahead – but totally modern – CD of the year for this reviewer. Dease now...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2015
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