Bridges with Seamus Blake: Continuum
Anders Thorén | Espen Berg | Hayden Powell | Jesper Bodilsen | Seamus Blake
American heavyweights teaming up with lesser-known Europeans rarely blend as neatly as Seamus Blake does with the Norwegian-based trumpet and...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: May/2019
Misha Mullov-Abbado: Cross-Platform Interchange
Cross-Platform Interchange is the young bassist Misha Mullov-Abbado's second album for Edition following debut New Ansonia, which he recorded after...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017
Yazz Ahmed: Polyhymnia
A slow cook of a release, its roots deep in a 2015 concert piece commissioned by Tomorrow's Warriors with support...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2019
Various Artists: Journeys in Modern Jazz: Britain (1965-1972)
This two CD or double gatefold LP set takes up where Universal's Impressed Repressed series left off in 2004-5. That...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2021
Chet Baker/Wolfgang Lackerschmid: Artists Favor
Once he was cut loose from Pacific Jazz and left to fend for himself (mainly) in Europe, there was absolutely...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2015
David Weiss & Point Of Departure: Venture Inward
David Weiss | Jamire Williams | JD Allen | Luques Curtis | Nir Felder
Trumpeter David Weiss' current projects include the excellent Cookers, which features serious 1970s era musicians like Billy Harper, Eddie Henderson,...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: May/2013
Afro Horn: MX
Outstanding Mexican percussionist Mora Catlett (no relation to Big Sid!) was a member of Sun Ra's Arkestra from 1973-80, who...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2013
Bernard Purdie: Purdie Good!
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
Johnny Mbizo Dyani: Rejoice/Together
Like his fellow Blue Notes, bassist Johnny Dyani left his native South Africa in the mid-1960s, in the aftermath of...
Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: October/2014
Tubby Hayes Big Band: Rumpus – Live In North Finchley, London 1969
It has long been the ambition of many jazz musicians to either lead their own big band or record with...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2015
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