Review of Tommaso Starace Harmony Less Quartet: Narrow Escape

Tommaso Starace Harmony Less Quartet: Narrow Escape

Dave O'Higgins | Davide Liberti | Ruben Bellavia | Tommaso Starace

Music Center

Rating: ★★★

Milan-born and UK-educated saxophonist Tommaso Starace makes his devotion to hard bop pretty clear on Narrow Escape, but it's no...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2019

Review of Ranny Sinclair: Another Autumn

Ranny Sinclair: Another Autumn

Dave Brubeck | Ranny Sinclair | Teo Macero

Modern Harmonic/Columbia

At a time when you can buy or stream practically all music ever recorded – no matter how impossibly rare...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: August/2021

Review of Colosseum: Transmissions: Live at the BBC

Colosseum: Transmissions: Live at the BBC

Barbara Thompson | Chris Farlowe | Dave ‘Clem’ Clempson | Dave Greenslade | Dick Heckstall-Smith | James Litherland | Jon Hiseman | Louis Cennamo | Mark Clarke | Neil Ardley

Repertoire

Rating: ★★★

Just when you thought there couldn't be more Colosseum cuts to be excavated, behold, you doubters, six more CDs from...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2021

Review of Broken Shadows

Broken Shadows

Chris Speed | Dave King | Reid Anderson | Tim Berne

Intakt Records

Rating: ★★★★

Paying homage to Ornette Coleman isn’t something new for The Bad Plus, of which this band contains three - yes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2021

Review of Richard Galliano: Nino Rota

Richard Galliano: Nino Rota

Boris Kozlov | Clarence Penn | Dave Douglas | John Surman | Richard Galliano

Deutsche Grammophon

Rating: ★★★★

One of the stronger performances of last year’s London Jazz Festival was by Richard Galliano’s La Strada Quintet dedicated to...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2012

Review of Mark Lockheart: Dreamers

Mark Lockheart: Dreamers

Dave Smith | Elliot Galvin | Mark Lockheart | Tom Herbert

Editor's Choice

Edition

Rating: ★★★★

If jazz is the music of sweet certain surprise, then Lockheart is the man for you. His last two Edition...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2022

Review of Gerry Mulligan Quartet: Spring in Stockholm: Live at Konserthuset 1959

Gerry Mulligan Quartet: Spring in Stockholm: Live at Konserthuset 1959

Art Farmer | Bill Crow | Dave Bailey | Gerry Mulligan

Editor's Choice

New Land

Rating: ★★★★

The quartet Gerry Mulligan fronted with Art Farmer from April 1958 until the late summer of 1959 was, according to...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2024

Review of Stacey Kent: The Boy Next Door

Stacey Kent: The Boy Next Door

Colin Oxley | Curtis Schwartz | Dave Chamberlain | David Newton | Jim Tomlinson | Matt Home | Stacey Kent

Candid

Rating: ★★★★

Released in 2003, this collection of songs associated with some of her musical heroes was Kent’s last Candid release and...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2023

Review of McClenty Hunter Jr: The Groove Hunter

McClenty Hunter Jr: The Groove Hunter

Christian Sands | Corcoran Holt | Dave Stryker | Donald Harrison | Eddie Henderson | Eric Reed | Eric Wheeler | McClenty Hunter Jr | Stacy Dillard

Strikezone

Rating: ★★★

Drummer McClenty Hunter Jr knows all about the groove roots of hard bop – he started out in gospel music,...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2018

Review of Clark Terry/Bob Wilber: Blowin' The Blues Away

Clark Terry/Bob Wilber: Blowin' The Blues Away

Billy Strayhorn | Bob Wilber | Clark Terry | Dave Bailey | Dick Wellstood | Duke Ellington | George Duvivier | Ozzie Bailey | Panama Francis | Wendell Marshall

Phono

Rating: ★★★★

The original album of this title was a single LP of Clark and Bob with Wilber's old sidekick Dick Wellstood...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2017

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