Review of Album Interview: Marius Neset London Sinfonietta: Snowmelt

Album Interview: Marius Neset London Sinfonietta: Snowmelt

Anton Eger | Geoffrey Paterson | Ivo Neame | London Sinfonietta | Marius Neset | Petter Eldh

Rating: ★★★★

In a different time and a different place, this album would be labelled ‘Third Stream’, a term coined by Gunther...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2016

Review of Out of Necessity…: Andy Champion & Graeme Wilson: Shoes For Losers

Out of Necessity…: Andy Champion & Graeme Wilson: Shoes For Losers

Andy Champion | Graeme Wilson

New Jazz and Improvised Music Recordings

Rating: ★★★

The fourth edition of the Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music was set to run in October 2020 until...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2021

Review of Album Interview: Lars Danielsson Liberetto: Cloudland

Album Interview: Lars Danielsson Liberetto: Cloudland

Lars Danielsson

Editor's Choice

ACT Music

Rating: ★★★★

Lars Danielsson's Libretto have staked-out a corner of jazz for themselves where calm, thoughtful, melodically based improvisation prevails. The group...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2021

Review of Louis Armstrong: The Complete Columbia and RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-1966

Louis Armstrong: The Complete Columbia and RCA Victor Studio Sessions 1946-1966

Al Casey | Al Hall | Al Hendrickson | Allen Reuss | Alton Moore | Annie Ross | Arvell Shaw | Barney Bigard | Barrett Deems | Big Chief Russell Moore

Editor's Choice

Mosaic

Rating: ★★★★

This impressive multi-disc box set comprises three main components: firstly the 1946-47 singles that Armstrong made for RCA during the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2021

Review of Old and New Dreams

Old and New Dreams

Charlie Haden | Dewey Redman | Don Cherry | Ed Blackwell

ECM Luminessence

Rating: ★★★★

These two releases, both examples of exceptional music-making, represent the second batch of ECM’s new Luminescence vinyl reissue programme, casting...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2023

Review of Chick Webb & His Orchestra: All The Hits And More

Chick Webb & His Orchestra: All The Hits And More

Band names: The Jungle Band | Benny Carter | Beverly Peer | Bill Thomas | Bob Horton | Bobby Johnson | Bobby Stark | Charles Linton | Charlie Dixon | Chauncey Haughton

Acrobat

Rating: ★★★★

Baltimore-born Webb (1909-1939) suffered from congenital tuberculosis of the spine which left him hunch-backed and often ill, yet despite this...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2024

Review of Cleveland Watkiss: The Great Jamaican Songbook Vol.1

Cleveland Watkiss: The Great Jamaican Songbook Vol.1

Alan Weekes | Byron Wallen | Carl Robinson | Cleveland Watkiss | Delroy Murray | James Wade-Sired | Orphy Robinson | Phil Ramocon

Cdubya CDUB01

Rating: ★★★★

One of our greatest jazz singers has never denied his reggae origins, and this celebration of killer roots and lovers'...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2022

Review of Album Interview: Sarah Jane Morris: Bloody Rain

Album Interview: Sarah Jane Morris: Bloody Rain

Adriano Adewale | Avishai Cohen | Dominic Miller | Henry Thomas | Martyn Baker | Sarah Jane Morris | Tony Rémy

Editor's Choice

Fallen Angel Records

Rating: ★★★★

In many ways, this is a remarkable album. Remarkable for its ambition, its sound world, its powerful stories and, at...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2014

Review of Miles Davis: At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol.4

Miles Davis: At Newport 1955-1975: The Bootleg Series Vol.4

Al Foster | Bill Evans | Cannonball Adderley | Herbie Hancock | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Keith Jarrett | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | Ron Carter

Columbia/Legacy

Rating: ★★★★★

Columbia/Legacy propose making this set available from Friday, 17 July 2015 – 60 years to the day of Davis' breakthrough...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2015

Review of Album Interview: Jamie Cullum: Interlude

Album Interview: Jamie Cullum: Interlude

Jamie Cullum | Riaan Vosloo | Ross Stanley | Tim Giles

Island Records

Rating: ★★★

Following the vintage synths, stylistic mash-ups and perfect pop of Momentum, for his seventh studio album, Interlude, Jamie Cullum makes...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2014

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