Review of WorldService Project: Hiding in Plain Sight

WorldService Project: Hiding in Plain Sight

Arthur O’Hara | Ben Powling | Dave Morecroft | Kieran McLeod | Luke Reddin-Williams

RareNoiseRecords

Rating: ★★★

WorldService Project's personnel have changed markedly since their first embattled Brexit response, Serve (2018), but the assaultive, defiant intent remains....

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2020

Review of Snowpoet: Wait For Me

Snowpoet: Wait For Me

Alex Haines | Alice Zawadzki | Chris Hyson | Dave Hamblett | Josh Arcoleo | Lauren Kinsella | Lloyd Haines | Matthew Robinson

Edition Records

Rating: ★★★

The word Snowpoet, alone, steers the ear toward the intimate and abstracted landscapes of this album. The duo of Chris...

Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: April/2021

Review of José James: No Beginning No End

José James: No Beginning No End

Chris Dave | Emily King | Hindi Zahra | José James | Kris Bowers | Lionel Loueke | Pino Palladino | Robert Glasper

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★

Cynics may decry this latest chapter in the 33 year-old American vocalist's career as his lunge for the commercial jugular...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2013

Review of Jazz at the Philharmonic: Complete Live in Stockholm – November 21, 1960

Jazz at the Philharmonic: Complete Live in Stockholm – November 21, 1960

Art Davis | Benny Carter | Candido Camero | Cannonball Adderley | Chuck Lampkin | Coleman Hawkins | Dizzy Gillespie | Don Byas | JJ Johnson | Jo Jones

Solar

Rating: ★★★★

Here's an entire concert from JATP's 1960 European tour, something of a last hurrah for the formula, Solar's three-CD pack...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2012

Review of Art Tatum/Ben Webster: The Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet

Art Tatum/Ben Webster: The Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet

Art Tatum | Ben Webster | Bill Douglass | Jo Jones | Ray Brown | Red Callendar | Teddy Wilson

State of Art

Rating: ★★★★

The core of this elegantly packaged release is the seven-track album cut by Tatum and Webster in 1956, and which...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2019

Review of Sonny Stitt: Now!/Salt & Pepper

Sonny Stitt: Now!/Salt & Pepper

Al Lucas | Hank Jones | Milt Hinton | Osie Johnson | Paul Gonsalves | Sonny Stitt

Impulse

Rating: ★★★

At last on CD, these sought-after albums were both recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's pad in Hackensack, the New Jersey...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: February/2012

Review of Idris Muhammad: Black Rhythm Revolution!

Idris Muhammad: Black Rhythm Revolution!

Buddy Caldwell | Clarence Thomas | Harold Mabern | Idris Muhammad | Jimmy Lewis | Melvin Sparks | Virgil Jones

Editor's Choice

Prestige/Jazz Dispensary

Rating: ★★★★

Two great drummers, two very different outcomes. Jazz was a part of New Orleans-born Idris Muhammad's upbringing early on, and...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2023

Review of Ollie Howell: Sutures and Stitches

Ollie Howell: Sutures and Stitches

Duncan Eagles | Mark Perry | Matt Robinson | Max Luthert | Ollie Howell

Whirlwind

Rating: ★★★

None other than Quincy Jones saw something very special in this now London-based drummer when he saw him perform in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Review of Phil Haynes’ 4 Horns & What?: The Complete American Recordings

Phil Haynes’ 4 Horns & What?: The Complete American Recordings

Andy Laster | Ellery Eskelin | Herb Robertson | Joe Daley | John Tchicai | Paul Smoker | Personnel includes Phil Haynes

Corner Store Jazz

Rating: ★★★

Not a name that immediately springs to mind when recalling the 1980s-to-early-90s New York Downtown scene, drummer-percussionist-composer Phil Haynes was...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2024

Review of Kenny Burrell: Four Classic Albums

Kenny Burrell: Four Classic Albums

Al Cohn | Art Blakey | Art Farmer | Ben Tucker | Bobby Timmons | Cecil Payne | Doug Watkins | Ed Thigpen | Elvin Jones | Hal McKusick

Avid Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

Originally inspired by Charlie Christian, Burrell, now in his 92nd year, must be counted as one of the jazz world's...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2023

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