Review of The Harvey O’Higgins Project: That’s the Way to Live!

The Harvey O’Higgins Project: That’s the Way to Live!

Dave O’Higgins | Graham Harvey | Jeremy Brown | Josh Morrison

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

All is well with the world. Dave O’Higgins is back and swinging in partnership with old pals. Pandemics may come...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2021

Review of Amanda Gardier: Auteur: Music Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson

Amanda Gardier: Auteur: Music Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson

Amanda Gardier | Charlie Ballantine | Dave King | Jesse Wittman

Self-release

Rating: ★★★

Amanda Gardier, a young Baltimore-based alto saxophonist, won’t be a name familiar to most UK jazz listeners.But she steps out...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2024

Review of Josephine Davies’ Satori: Weatherwards

Josephine Davies’ Satori: Weatherwards

Alcyona Mick | Dave Whitford | James Maddren | Josephine Davies

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Following 2020’s Buddhism-themed How Can We Wake? this fourth album from Josephine Davies’ Satori takes the saxophonist back to her...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: November/2024

Review of Cloudmakers Five: Traveling Pulse

Cloudmakers Five: Traveling Pulse

Antonin-Tri Hoang | Dave Smith | Hannes Riepler | Jim Hart | Michael Janisch

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Jim Hart has been pushing at the boundaries of the art of jazz vibraphone since forming Cloudmakers in 2015, his...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

Review of Russell Malone: Love Looks Good On You

Russell Malone: Love Looks Good On You

Gerald Cannon | Rick Germanson | Russell Malone | Willie Jones III

HighNote

Rating: ★★★

Malone is the natural successor to Wes Montgomery and George Benson, a guitar stylist whose limpid touch and unruffled command...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2015

Review of McCoy Tyner Trio: Inception/Reaching Fourth

McCoy Tyner Trio: Inception/Reaching Fourth

Art Davis | Elvin Jones | Henry Grimes | McCoy Tyner | Roy Haynes

Impulse

Rating: ★★★

A two-for-one of Tyner's debut releases as leader. Not surprisingly, Inception is rich with Coltrane-esque echoes as this is the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2012

Review of John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle

Carlos Ward | Donald ‘Rafael’ Garrett | Elvin Jones | Jimmy Garrison | John Coltrane | McCoy Tyner | Pharoah Sanders

Impulse!

Rating: ★★★★★

Three years ago the release of Both Directions At Once offered up something genuinely new; unearthed tapes of Coltrane playing...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: November/2021

Review of Erin McDougald: Outside The Soirée

Erin McDougald: Outside The Soirée

Chembo Corniel | Cliff Schmitt | Dan Block | Dave Liebman | Erin McDougald | Mark Sherman | Rob Block | Rodney Green | Tom Harrell

Miles High Records

Rating: ★★★★

Featuring a smoking hot band which includes Dave Liebman on soprano and tenor saxes plus Tom Harrell on trumpet and...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2018

Review of Jazz Artists Guild: Newport Rebels

Jazz Artists Guild: Newport Rebels

Abbey Lincoln | Benny Bailey | Booker Little | Charles Mingus | Eric Dolphy | Jimmy Knepper | Jo Jones | Julian Priester | Kenny Dorham | Max Roach

Candid

Rating: ★★★★

This latest Candid remastered CD and LP stands up well in musical terms, with its backstory and its stylistically mixed...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2024

Review of Bedmakers: Live in Berlin

Bedmakers: Live in Berlin

Dave Kane | Fabien Duscombs | Mathieu Werchowski | Robin Fincker

Jazz Dor Series

Rating: ★★★★

The French-born reedsman Robin Fincker was a recognised figure on the vibrant young London scene during the noughties making his...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2021

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