Review of Sandro Zerafa: More Light

Sandro Zerafa: More Light

Jazz & People

Rating: ★★★

As well as a founder member of the Paris Jazz Underground Collective and long-time Malta Jazz Fest director, the guitarist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Review of Andy Brown: Soloist

Andy Brown: Soloist

Delmark

Rating: ★★

This Chicagoan guitarist goes solo with influences in the same ball park as Joao Gilberto and Joe Pass although in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2015

Review of Josh Lawrence & Color Theory: Contrast

Josh Lawrence & Color Theory: Contrast

Posi-Tone

Rating: ★★

This young trumpeter's sextet's polished mix of Afro-Cuban jazz, bebop and a little hip hop is infused with an easy-going...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

Review of Thinking Plague: Hoping Against Hope

Thinking Plague: Hoping Against Hope

Cuneiform

Rating: ★★★

A band that's now 35 years old and still going strong, Thinking Plague might be an acquired taste, but they...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Review of Anne Mette Iverson: Poetry of Earth

Anne Mette Iverson: Poetry of Earth

BJU Records

Rating: ★★

A Danish bassist sets poetry (in both Danish and English) from Ibsen to Keats to an interesting set of chamber...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Review of Fred Thelonious Baker: Life Suite

Fred Thelonious Baker: Life Suite

Fred Thelonious Baker

First Hand Records

Rating: ★★★

Fresh, melodic, straight-ahead: what's not to like about Baker's solo acoustic debut? Baker has long been among the nation's respected...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2014

Review of Marc Copland: Better By Far

Marc Copland: Better By Far

Drew Gress | Joey Baron | Marc Copland | Ralph Alessi

InnerVoice Jazz

Rating: ★★★

Strange to recall that Copland made his professional debut as a saxophonist, but since concentrating on the piano since the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2017

Review of Sonny Rollins: Way Out West In Stereo

Sonny Rollins: Way Out West In Stereo

Ray Brown | Shelley Manne | Sonny Rollins

Craft Recordings

Rating: ★★★★★

On the 60th anniversary of the first stereo issue of Way Out West on Lester Koenig's Contemporary label in 1957,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2018

Review of Chick Corea Elektric Band II: Paint The World

Chick Corea Elektric Band II: Paint The World

Chick Corea | Eric Marienthal | Gary Novak | Jimmy Earl | Mike Miller

Candid

Rating: ★★★★

Corea’s foray into electric music erred towards the OTT – his group Return to Forever went from ferocious virtuosity to...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2024

Review of Jeff Coffin: Only the Horizon

Jeff Coffin: Only the Horizon

Alana Rocklin | Béla Fleck | Bill Evans | Cory Wong | Daru Jones | Ibrou Dioubate | Jay Whyte | Jeff Coffin | Jon Cowherd | Keb Mo’

Ear Up/Bandcamp

Rating: ★★★

Coffin's best known for his association with the sprawling Dave Matthews Band, which mixes classic American rock with big brassy...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2024

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