Review of Bridges with Seamus Blake: Continuum

Bridges with Seamus Blake: Continuum

Anders Thorén | Espen Berg | Hayden Powell | Jesper Bodilsen | Seamus Blake

Amp Music

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Misha Mullov-Abbado: Cross-Platform Interchange

Misha Mullov-Abbado: Cross-Platform Interchange

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

Edition

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Yazz Ahmed: Polyhymnia

Yazz Ahmed: Polyhymnia

Alcyona Mick | Alex Ridout | Becca Toft | Camilla George | Carol Jarvis | Charlie Pyne | Chloe Abbott | Corrina Silverster | Gemma Moore | George Crowley

Ropeadope

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Various Artists: Journeys in Modern Jazz: Britain (1965-1972)

Various Artists: Journeys in Modern Jazz: Britain (1965-1972)

Alan Skidmore | Colin Bates | Dick Morrissey | Don Rendell | Harry Beckett | John Surman | John Warren | Ken Wheeler | Michael Garrick | Michel Gibbs

Editor's Choice

Decca

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Chet Baker/Wolfgang Lackerschmid: Artists Favor

Chet Baker/Wolfgang Lackerschmid: Artists Favor

Buster Williams | Chet Baker | Edir dos Santos | Gunter Lenz | Larry Coryell | Nicola Stlo | Peri dos Santos | Rocky Knauer | Tony Williams | Wolfgang Lackerschmid

Hipjazz

Rating: ★★

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

Review of David Weiss & Point Of Departure: Venture Inward

David Weiss & Point Of Departure: Venture Inward

David Weiss | Jamire Williams | JD Allen | Luques Curtis | Nir Felder

Posi-Tone

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Afro Horn: MX

Afro Horn: MX

Alex Harding | Aruán Ortiz | Francisco Mora Catlett | JD Allen | Rashaan Carter | Roman Diaz | Vincent Bowens

AACE

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Bernard Purdie: Purdie Good!

Bernard Purdie: Purdie Good!

Bernard Purdie | Bily Nichols | Charlie Brown | Gordon Edwards | Harold Wheeler | Norman Pride | Ted Dunbar | Tippy Larkin | Warren Daniels

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 Johnny Mbizo Dyani: Rejoice/Together

Johnny Mbizo Dyani: Rejoice/Together

Bosse Skoglund | Dudu Pukwana | Felix Perrera | Hassan Bah | Johnny Mbizo Dyani | Kenny Håkansson | Mongezi Feza | Okay Temiz | Peter ‘Shimmy’ Radise | Virimuje Willie Mbuende

Cadillac Records

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Tubby Hayes Big Band: Rumpus – Live In North Finchley, London 1969

Tubby Hayes Big Band: Rumpus – Live In North Finchley, London 1969

Bill Geldard | Brian Smith | David Horler | Greg Bowen | Harry Klein | Ian Hamer | Keith Christie | Kenny Wheeler | Les Condon | Louis Stewart

Editor's Choice

Savage Solweig

Rating: ★★★★

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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