Review of Fishwick/Roberts/Basile/Sanz/Whitford/Fishwick: When Night Falls

Fishwick/Roberts/Basile/Sanz/Whitford/Fishwick: When Night Falls

Albert Sanz | Dave Whitford | Frank Basile | Matt Fishwick | Osian Roberts | Steve Fishwick

Hard Bop Records

Rating: ★★★★

This is the fourth Fishwick-Roberts album on Hard Bop, the previous one having featured Cedar Walton and Peter Washington. When...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2014

Review of Alex Sipiagin: From Reality and Back

Alex Sipiagin: From Reality and Back

Alex Sipiagin | Antonio Sánchez | Dave Holland | Gonzalo Rubalcaba | Seamus Blake

5Passion Records

Rating: ★★★★

Russian-born New Yorker Sipiagin already has 13 CDs as leader to his credit plus two as co-leader of Opus 5,...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2013

Review of Jim Hart Cloudmakers Trio: A Drop Of Hope In The Ocean Of Uncertainty

Jim Hart Cloudmakers Trio: A Drop Of Hope In The Ocean Of Uncertainty

Dave Smith | Jim Hart | Leo Genovese | Michael Janisch

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★

French-resident vibraphonist Jim Hart used to be one of the pivotal figures on the London contemporary jazz scene as a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2024

Review of Charles Lloyd & The Marvels: I Long to See You

Charles Lloyd & The Marvels: I Long to See You

Bill Frisell | Charles Lloyd | Eric Harland | Greg Leisz | Norah Jones | Reuben Rogers | Willie Nelson

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★

I Long to See You marks a change of pace for Charles Lloyd; there isn’t anything quite like it in...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2016

Review of Cedar Walton: The Bouncer

Cedar Walton: The Bouncer

Cedar Walton | David Williams | Ray Mantilla | Steve Turré | Vincent Herring | Willie Jones III

HighNote

Rating: ★★★★

It’s good to report that Walton, at 77 years old a jazz veteran if ever there was one, has produced...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2011

Review of James Brandon Lewis quartet: Code Of Being

James Brandon Lewis quartet: Code Of Being

Aruan Ortiz | Brad Jones | Chad Taylor | James Brandon Lewis

Intakt

Rating: ★★★★

Having made a fine album with his Red Lily quintet in 2021, Jesup’s Wagon, tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis returns...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Review of Hank Mobley: Workout + Hank Mobley Quartet

Hank Mobley: Workout + Hank Mobley Quartet

Art Blakey | Doug Watkins | Grant Green | Hank Mobley | Horace Silver | Paul Chambers | Philly Joe Jones | Wynton Kelly

American Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

It probably wasn't meant to be, but when, back in the day, Leonard Feather described Hank Mobley as “middleweight champion...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Review of Sam Crowe Group: Synaesthesia

Sam Crowe Group: Synaesthesia

Adam Waldmann | Dave Smith | Jasper Høiby | Sam Crowe | Will Davies

F-IRE

Rating: ★★★★

Here's proof that the newest wave of UK jazz musicians don't need to play music that kicks arse in order...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2010

Review of Thelonious Monk: Complete 1947-56 Trios

Thelonious Monk: Complete 1947-56 Trios

Al McKibbon | Art Blakey | Ben Riley | Butch Warren | Charlie Rouse | Dave Brubeck | Frankie Dunlop | Gary Mapp | Gene Ramey | Johnny Griffin

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

The EJC label is well named in this case, although the contents render redundant an earlier CD of Monk’s first...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2016

Review of The Jihad: Black and Beautiful… Soul and Madness

The Jihad: Black and Beautiful… Soul and Madness

Aireen Eternal | Bobby Lyle | Freddie Johnson | Gilbert Monk | Leonard Cathcart | LeRoi Jones | Russell Lyle | Yusef Iman

Jihad Productions 1968

Amiri Baraka, who died in January, came to prominence in the early 1960s as a poet with links to the...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2014

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