Review of Grant Green: Remembering Grant Green

Grant Green: Remembering Grant Green

Al Harewood | Billy Higgins | Butch Warren | Grant Green | Sonny Clark | Wilbur Ware

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

The biggest obstacle confronting jazz guitarists has invariably been creating an instantly recognisable signature sound. In far too many instances...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2014

Review of Matching Mole: Matching Mole/Little Red Record

Matching Mole: Matching Mole/Little Red Record

Bill MacCormick | Brian Eno | Dave MacRae | Dave Macrae | Dave Sinclair | Mutter Korus | Phil Miller | Robert Wyatt

Esoteric

Rating: ★★★★

Matching Mole are usually seen as a transitionary stage in the career of Robert Wyatt. The group formed in 1971,...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: July/2012

Review of Roscoe Mitchell: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note

Roscoe Mitchell: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note

Alan Silva | Andrew Hill | Ben Riley | Clifford Jordan | Freddie Waits | Rufus Reid

Cam BXS

Rating: ★★★★

The term ‘all star group’ can be bandied about a bit too liberally these days but what is perhaps more...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2016

Review of Red Mitchell and Jim Hall: Rejoice!

Red Mitchell and Jim Hall: Rejoice!

Carl Perkins | Frank Butler | Frank Strazzeri | Jim Hall | Jimmy Bond | Red Kelly | Red Mitchell

Fresh Sound

Rating: ★★★★

Here's yet another Fresh Sound package culled from the vaults, the fruits of three Pacific Jazz LP releases by the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2017

Review of Various Artists: Babylon Berlin

Various Artists: Babylon Berlin

Alexander Hacke | Alf Klimek | Brian Ferry | Christina Russo | Damian Bassman | Guitar Crusher aka Sidney Selby Selby | Kristjan Randalu | Larry Mullins | Michiyo Suzuki | Moka Efti Orchestra

Rating: ★★★★

Babylon Berlin is a screen adaptation of Volker Kutscher's detective novels. Set primarily in Berlin in 1929, they depict the...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: April/2018

Review of Tubby Hayes: Four Classic Albums Plus

Tubby Hayes: Four Classic Albums Plus

Bill Eyden | Bobby Breen | Clark Terry | Dave Bailey | Dave Usden | Dickie Hawdon | Eddie Costa | George Duvivier | Harry South | Horace Parlan

Editor's Choice

Avid JazzAMSC

Rating: ★★★★

With both the 90th anniversary of Hayes’ birth looming next year, and the much talked-of ‘Golden Age’ of British modern...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: October/2024

Review of Franco Ambrosetti: Lost Within You

Franco Ambrosetti: Lost Within You

Franco Ambrosetti | Jack DeJohnette | John Scofield | Renee Rosnes | Scott Colley | Uri Caine

Unit UTR

Rating: ★★★★

There are those who, in the past, have sniped at the stellar company with whom the trumpeter Franco Ambrosetti has...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2021

Review of Michael Chillingworth: Scratch and Sift

Michael Chillingworth: Scratch and Sift

George Crowley | Jon Scott | Josh Arcoleo | Lewis Wright | Michael Chillingworth | Sam Lasserson | Tom Challenger

Two Rivers Records

Rating: ★★★

The studied rhythms, controlled use of space and changing tempos put this set of Chillingworth originals on the avant side...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2016

Review of Tom Green Septet: Tipping Point

Tom Green Septet: Tipping Point

James Davison | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Sam James | Sam Miles | Scott Chapman | Tom Green | Tommy Andrews

Spark!

Rating: ★★★★

Tom Green’s Septet is a very close-knit working band, in a personal as well as artistic sense, and this is...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Review of Benjamin Koppel: White Buses: Passage To Freedom

Benjamin Koppel: White Buses: Passage To Freedom

Antonio Sanchez | Benjamin Koppel | Henrik Dam Thomsen | Scott Colley | Soren Moller | Thana Alexa | Uri Caine

Cowbell/Bandcamp

Rating: ★★★

An A-list international ensemble led by British saxophonist Benjamin Koppel broaches a timely historic subject: the white buses that carried...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2024

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