Review of Gary Peacock Trio: Now This

Gary Peacock Trio: Now This

Gary Peacock | Joey Baron | Marc Copland

ECM

Rating: ★★★

Released to coincide with Peacock's 80th birthday back in May, this makes a change from both his work with pianist...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2015

Review of Pure Desmond: Pure Desmond Play James Bond Songs

Pure Desmond: Pure Desmond Play James Bond Songs

Christian Flohr | Johann Weiss | Lorenz Hargassner | Sebastian Deufel

Major Music

Rating: ★★★

Like all of you, I like to think I take my jazz seriously. But you know what? Sometimes I just...

Reviewed by Nina Fortune in issue: April/2023

Review of Redman/Mehldau/McBride/Blade: RoundAgain

Redman/Mehldau/McBride/Blade: RoundAgain

Brad Mehldau | Brian Blade | Christian McBride | Joshua Redman

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★

What could be the first supergroup of the post-pandemic era is actually the reincarnation of Joshua Redman's original mid-1990s quartet....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020

Review of Alex Sipiagin: Overlooking Moments

Alex Sipiagin: Overlooking Moments

Alex Sipiagin | Chris Potter | Eric Harland | Scott Colley

Criss Cross Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

Criss Cross boss-producer Gerry Teekens is astonishingly loyal to his artistes. Take Russian trumpeter Sipiagin, for years now an in-demand...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2013

Review of Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau: Nearness

Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau: Nearness

Brad Mehldau | Joshua Redman

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

The influential contemporary pianist and saxophonist's musical relationship goes back to the early 1990s. It was then that a fledgling...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

Review of Bill Evans: Live at Ronnie Scott’s

Bill Evans: Live at Ronnie Scott’s

Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez | Jack DeJohnette

Resonance

Rating: ★★★★

Jack DeJohnette's six-month tenure as a member of the Bill Evans Trio – he left to heed the call of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/2020

Review of Bill Evans: The Complete Interplay Sessions

Bill Evans: The Complete Interplay Sessions

Art Taylor | Benny Golson | Bill Evans | Dannie Richmond | Freddie Hubbard | Gene Quill | Jim Hall | Jimmy Knepper | Oscar Pettiford | Percy Heath

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★

Preceded by the loss of Scott LaFaro, and Evans's subsequent depression and formation of the lower-key trio with Chuck Israels,...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2014

Review of Partikel: Cohesion

Partikel: Cohesion

Duncan Eagles | Eric Ford | Max Luthert

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★

The follow-up to last year's very impressive eponymous debut. Partikel is a young contemporary jazz three piece with a taste...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012

Review of Phil Seamen: Seamen's Mission

Phil Seamen: Seamen's Mission

Albert Hall | Benny Green | Billy Olu Shoanke | Bob Burns | Bobby Lamb | Bobby Pratt | Cliff Townsend | Coleridge Goode | Dave Usden | Derek Humble

Properbox

Rating: ★★★★★

Over half the material contained in this indispensible four-CD box was originally created for the Tempo label under the keen-eared...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2011

Review of Benny Goodman: The Benny Goodman Hits Collection Vol 1: 1931-38

Benny Goodman: The Benny Goodman Hits Collection Vol 1: 1931-38

Al Hendrickson | Ann Graham | Art Lund | Benny Goodman | Benny Goodman & His Orchestra | Benny Goodman Quartet | Benny Goodman Trio | Betty Vann | Billie Holiday | Buddy Greco

Acrobat

Rating: ★★★★

Acrobat has become the collector’s friend, the label’s thorough-going compilations a source of renewed pleasure for old hands; and a...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2024

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