Gerald Clark: Nakba – A Jazz Suite for Palestine
Byron Wallen | Dave Hamblett | Duncan Haynes | Johnny Lippiett | Sam Lasserson
Gerald Clark, a London-based composer-arranger, has played a patient game with this release; he started writing the music for this...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Echoes of Swing: Blue Pepper
Bernd Lhotzky | Chris Hopkins | Colin Dawson | Oliver Mewes
This neat little combo has been on the go since 1997 and specialises in recasting familiar numbers in inventive ways...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
John Coltrane & Johnny Griffin: A Blowing Session
To some jazz fans Jazz Images’ repackaging of the Blue Note catalogue might be seen as tantamount to rewriting the...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2019
Jack DeJohnette: Made In Chicago
Henry Threadgill | Jack DeJohnette | Larry Gray | Muhal Richard Abrams | Roscoe Mitchell
So prominent is his association with Keith Jarrett in the contemporary jazz consciousness, it is overlooked, if not known at...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2015
Antônio Carlos Jobim: Wave
Taped at Rudy Van Gelder's studios in 1967, and produced by that prolific jazz hitmaker Creed ‘CTI’ Taylor, Wave has...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2020
Valaida Snow: Swing is The Thing – The Dynamic Valaida Snow, Queen of the Trumpet
The wonderfully talented Valaida Snow [1904-1956] came from a showbusiness family and was steeped in the world of black vaudeville,...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2021
Gábor Bolla Quartet: On The Move
Billy Drummond | Daniel Franck | Gábor Bolla | Robert Lakatos
Hungarian tenorist Bolla now works in Denmark and recorded this album there in multi-national company, with Swedish bassist Franck alongside...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2022
Noah Haidu: Slipstream
Chris Haney | Jeremy Pelt | John Davis | Jon Irabagon | Noah Haidu | Willie Jones III
Virginia-born pianist/composer Noah Haidu has been on the New York scene for some years now. How his talent has remained...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2011
Joe Chambers: Samba de Maracatu
Brad Merritt | Joe Chambers | MC Parrain | Stephanie Jordan | Steve Haines
When Chick Corea died in February, the name of Joe Chambers might have been a peripheral thought for some fans...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2021
Ulysses Owens Jr.: Unanimous
Criss Cross boss, producer Gerry Teekens really goes back to the label's roots with this no-nonsense, contemporary hard bop date....
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2012
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