Leo Smith: Divine Love
Bobby Naughton | Charlie Haden | Dwight Andrews | Kenny Wheeler | Leo Smith | Lester Bowie
A key entry in the Smith discography, cut in the pre-Wadada days, Divine Love is an album that wears its...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2019
Coleman Hawkins: Desafi nado/Bluesy Burrell
Tenorist Coleman Hawkins was an interesting and unique figure in jazz. He was among a whole generation of Swing Era...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: May/2013
Noel Langley: Edentide
Like the Severn Bore, Langley's debut has been a long time coming, but, ye gods, it's spectacular now it's here....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2014
Frank Morgan Allstars: Reflections
Alex Sipiagin | Conrad Herwig | David Kikoski | Igor Butman | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Kenny Davis
The mercurial Morgan, out of jail in 1988, goes head to head with Joe Henderson and Bobby Hutcherson....
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2016
Cecilia Smith: The Mary Lou Williams Resurgence Project Volume 1
This fabulous album from vibist, composer, arranger and Artistic Director of the Mary Lou Williams Resurgence Project, Cecilia Smith, is...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2023
Samara Joy: A Joyful Holiday
Surely one of the most gifted – and, as time may yet reveal – important jazz vocalists of our century,...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Album Interview: Dave Holland featuring Evan Parker, Craig Taborn and Ches Smith: Uncharted Territories
Ches Smith | Craig Taborn | Dave Holland | Evan Parker
Released on Holland's own label, Dare2 Records, Unchartered Territories, is the first album under his name to focus almost exclusively...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2018
Rick Simpson: Klammer
Dave Hamblett | George Crowley | Michael Chillingworth | Ralph Wyld | Rick Simpson | Tom Farmer
Klammer is the hugely impressive sophomore recording of originals and ensemble arrangements by the gifted 2008 Guildhall graduate and pianist-keyboardist...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017
Tom Smith's Gecko: Gecko
Jonny Mansfield | Tom Smith | Will Barry
On their debut album Gecko, the saxophonist-composer Tom Smith and his trio sound like old hands at the kind of...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2021
Roy Haynes: Three Classic Albums: Plus We Three/Just Us/Out Of The Afternoon/Jazz Abroad
For this writer one of the most enduring images of the bebop era is a photograph of Charlie Parker being...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2013
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