Review of Jasmine Myra: Rising

Jasmine Myra: Rising

Alice Roberts | Arran Kent | Awen Blandford | Ben Haskins | Carmel Smickersgill | George Hall | Greg Burns | Isabella Baker | Jasmine Myra | Jasper Green

Editor's Choice

Gondwana

Rating: ★★★★

Jasmine Myra’s music is reasonably considered spiritual jazz, a presumption invited by her presence on Matthew Halsall’s Gondwana label, whose...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2024

Review of Miles Davis: Four Classic Albums

Miles Davis: Four Classic Albums

‘Philly’ Joe Jones | Arthur Taylor | Horace Silver | Jackie McLean | John Coltrane | Kenny Clarke | Miles Davis | Milt Jackson | Paul Chambers Pierre Michelot | Percy Heath

Avid Jazz

Rating: ★★★

The four classic albums referred to in this collection are Miles Davis & Milt Jackson Quintet/Sextet, Miles Davis & The...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2022

Review of Paul Combs: Unknown Dameron

Paul Combs: Unknown Dameron

Alex Aspinall | Alex Frank | Bill Cunliffe | Danielle Werts | Derek Cannon | Jeff Denson | Kamau Kenyatta | Ken Cook | Melonie Grinnel | Paul Combs

Summit

Rating: ★★

This is a record that invites two different approaches to reviewing. Firstly, it presents a dozen unknown, or relatively obscure,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2019

Review of Gerry Mulligan: Concert Jazz Band in Concert

Gerry Mulligan: Concert Jazz Band in Concert

Alan Raph | Bob Brookmeyer | Bob Donovan | Buddy Clark | Conte Candoli | Don Ferrara | Gene Allen | Gene Quill | Gerry Mulligan | Jim Reider

Editor's Choice

SteepleChase SCCD

Rating: ★★★★

A matter of months after Gerry Mulligan founded his Concert Jazz Band in early 1960, it set off on its...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2023

Review of Marie Kruttli Trio: The Kind of Happy One

Marie Kruttli Trio: The Kind of Happy One

Jonathan Barber | Lukas Traxel | Marie Kruttli

QFTF

Rating: ★★★★

This piano trio floats on the wide interface between jazz and classical music, allowing the piano to fall fully into...

Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: June/2020

Review of Modern Jazz Quartet: The Lost Tapes/Germany 1956-1958

Modern Jazz Quartet: The Lost Tapes/Germany 1956-1958

Connie Kay | Harald Banter Ensemble | John Lewis | Kurt Edelhagen | Milt Jackson | Percy Heath

Atlantic

Rating: ★★★★★

Though their popularity was truly international, John Lewis once informed me that from the very start the MJQ's most appreciative...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Review of Southbound

Southbound

Jack Davies | Jon Ormston | Rob Cope | Tom Taylor

V&V Music

Rating: ★★★

This trio of releases from 26-year-old trumpeter-and-more Jack Davies constitute an impressive calling card. Davies won the Deutsche Bank award...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2012

Review of GoGo Penguin

GoGo Penguin

Chris Illingworth | Nick Blacka | Rob Turner

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★

Much of the beauty of the new London jazz scene has been the music's reunion with black listeners, a replenishment...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2020

Review of Lou Rawls: Black and Blue

Lou Rawls: Black and Blue

Lou Rawls

American Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

Growing up on the South Side of Chicago with Sam Cooke (who was three years his elder) and the Staple...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2017

Review of Robert Mitchell: The Glimpse

Robert Mitchell: The Glimpse

Andy Emler | Geetha Bennett | Jaya Deva | Lars Danielson | Nando Carneiro | Paola Fresu | Teodosil Spassov | Trilok Gurtu

Art of Groove

Rating: ★★★★

Many artists argue that restriction if not limitation can lead to great creative heights and in daring to take...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2015

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