Big Screen: Take One
Dave Newton | Matt Skelton | Tom Farmer
It's funny how an unapologetically glossy traditional piano trio take on popular TV and film themes can start to sound...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015
Harold McNair
Bill Le Sage | Harold McNair | John Cameron | Spike Heatley | Tony Carr | unknown orchestra
Another welcome reissue from Dutton Vocalion. If Flute & Nut, with its occasional foolish forays into easy listening (‘You Are...
Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013
Leo Appleyard: Pembroke Road
Duncan Eagles | Eric Ford | Leo Appleyard | Max Luthert | Neil Yates
Guitarist Leo Appleyard makes his debut as a leader on CD with this thoughtful collection of eight originals and one...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2014
Stefon Harris + Blackout: Sonic Creed
Vibraphonist Harris, a musician whose discography includes impressive albums for Blue Note, above all 2003's ambitious The Grand Unification Theory,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2018
Jameszoo with Metropole Orkest: Melkweg
“Naïve computer jazz” is how Mitchel van Dinther, aka Jameszoo, describes his music, and indeed his 2016 debut Fool, on...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: July/2019
Scott Hamilton: Classics
Hand Backenroth | Jan Lundgren | Kristian Leth | Scott Hamilton
Hamilton’s inaugural album for the US Concord label was recorded in 1977 and released as Scott Hamilton Is A Good...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2022
Joe Magnarelli: Magic Trick
Andy Fusco | Ben Wolfe | Byron Landon | Joe Magnarelli | John Hart
I was less than enthusiastic about trumpeter Magnarelli in a recent review. Happily, it's possible to be rather more appreciative...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2018
Bruning/Griener/Petrowsky/Prins: Ornette Et Cetera
Ernest-Ludwig Petrowsky | Jean-Francois Prins | Michael Griener | Uschi Bruning
Several of Ornette Coleman's muchloved themes (‘The Sphinx’; ‘Beauty Is A Rare Thing;’ ‘Folk Tale’) dot a 15-song set that...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2012
Lenore Raphael, Wayne Wilkinson & Chris Hodgkins: Pizza Express Live
Chris Hodgkins | Lenore Raphael | Wayne Wilkinson
Trumpeter Hodgkins, the former Director of Jazz Services, and now a willing freelance player, has usually tended to record with...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018
Alison Rayner Quintet: A Magic Life
Alison Rayner | Buster Birch | Deirdre Cartwright | Diane McLoughlin | Steve Lodder
Is music stronger than magic a young boy asked Alison Rayner? And here's one answer: a gorgeous album synthesising mood,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
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