Review of Lenny McBrowne And The 4 Souls: Complete Recordings Featuring Gloria Smyth

Lenny McBrowne And The 4 Souls: Complete Recordings Featuring Gloria Smyth

Daniel Jackson | Donald Sleet | Gloria Smith | Herbie Lewis | Jimmy Bond | Lenny McBrowne | Terry Trotter

Fresh Sound

Rating: ★★★★

This was a wonderful swinging little band. Like a West Coast answer to the East's Horace Silver Quintet or The...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2011

Review of Michael Feinberg: Blues Variant

Michael Feinberg: Blues Variant

Dave Liebman | Leo Genovese | Michael Feinberg | Nasheet Waits | Noah Preminger

Criss Cross Jazz

Rating: ★★★

The Criss Cross label has been quietly but firmly stamping its mark of quality on the shifting sands of New...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2023

Review of Clark Tracey Quintet: No Doubt

Clark Tracey Quintet: No Doubt

Alexandra Ridout | Clark Tracey | Elliott Samson | James Owston | Sean Payne

Editor's Choice

Tentoten

Rating: ★★★★

It’s Clark’s 40th year in jazz and this is the latest in his succession of groups which introduce exceptionally talented...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Review of Kiefer: When There's Love Around

Kiefer: When There's Love Around

Andrew Randazzo | Andy McCauley | Blank For.ms | DJ Harrison | Jonathan Pinson | Josh Johnson | Kiefer Shackelford | Sam Wilkes | Simon Martinez | Will Logan

Stones Throw

Rating: ★★★★

Pianist/producer Kiefer Shackelford, or just plain Kiefer to his many fans and followers, is a great example of what happens...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: September/2021

Review of Tia Fuller: Angelic Warrior

Tia Fuller: Angelic Warrior

Dianne Reeves | Fuller | John Patitucci | Mimi Jones | Rudy Royston | Shamie Royston | Shirazette Tinnin | Terri Lyne Carrington

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★

Although her membership of Beyoncé's band is one of the prime talking points in the alto saxophonist's career, one could...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2012

Review of Eubanks-Evans Experience: EEE

Eubanks-Evans Experience: EEE

Kevin Eubanks | Orrin Evans

Imani

Rating: ★★★

Two musicians who have impressive credits as both leaders and sidemen, guitarist Kevin Eubanks and pianist Orrin Evans, form a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2022

Review of Sonny Stitt: Sonny Stitt Meets Sadik Hakim

Sonny Stitt: Sonny Stitt Meets Sadik Hakim

Buster Williams | JR Mitchell | Sadik Hakim | Sonny Stitt

Progressive

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Misha Mullov-Abbado: Dream Circus

Misha Mullov-Abbado: Dream Circus

James Davison | Liam Dunachie | Matthew Herd | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Sam Rapley | Scott Chapman

Edition Records

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Benito Gonzalez: Sing to the World

Benito Gonzalez: Sing to the World

Nicholas Payton

Rainy Days Records Rainy

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Dayna Stephens: The Nepenthetic Place

Dayna Stephens: The Nepenthetic Place

Ambrose Akinmusire | Dayna Stephens | Gretchen Parlato | Jaleel Shaw | Joe Sanders | Justin Brown | Taylor Eigisti

Sunnyside

Rating: ★★★

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

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