Sonny Stitt: Sonny Stitt Meets Sadik Hakim
Buster Williams | JR Mitchell | Sadik Hakim | Sonny Stitt
Sonny Stitt was there at the dawn of what become known as modern jazz – bebop division. Come up with...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2015
Misha Mullov-Abbado: Dream Circus
James Davison | Liam Dunachie | Matthew Herd | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Sam Rapley | Scott Chapman
Featuring the same classy young UK sextet that recorded his 2017 session Cross-Platform Interchange, and produced by the adventurous Jasper...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2020
Benito Gonzalez: Sing to the World
Encountering Venezuelan pianist Benito Gonzalez as an exciting McCoy Tyner-steeped thirtysomething with Kenny Garrett's band at Ronnie's in 2006, it...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2021
Dayna Stephens: The Nepenthetic Place
Glib as it may sound, a marketing department may bill this as 1960s modernism àla Miles, Herbie, Evans et al,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2013
Count Basie: Swinging The Blues
Back in the days of LPs, if you wanted a comprehensive history of the ‘Old Testament’ Basie band on record,...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2019
David Weiss & Point Of Departure: Two Faced
Regular readers will remember the high regard with which this writer holds trumpeter/composer/arranger David Weiss, currently heavily involved with The...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2017
Yazz Ahmed: Finding My Way Home
Now in her latetwenties, Yazz Ahmed only started playing jazz on the trumpet in her late teens. You aren't made...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012
Ivo Neame: Glimpses Of Truth
During the 2015 EFG London Jazz Festival, supertrio Phronesis teamed up with the formidable Frankfurt Radio Big Band to play...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: February/2022
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: The Complete Concert at Club Saint Germain
Art Blakey | Benny Golson | Bobby Timmons | Jymie Merritt | Lee Morgan
Art Blakey always insisted that he never gave RCA permission to record this date. Whether or not this is true...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2013
Steve Lacy: The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy
Charles Davis | John Ore | Roy Haynes | Steve Lacy
From the second batch of the Candid label’s recent reissue programme, The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy, only his third...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2023
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