Review of Carmen Lundy: Code Noir

Carmen Lundy: Code Noir

Ben Williams | Carmen Lundy | Elisabeth Oei | Jeff Parker | Kendrick Scott | Patrice Rushen

Afrasia Productions

Rating: ★★★★

Any new album by Carmen Lundy is a cause for celebration and, delivering a heady mix of jazz, blues, samba...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2017

Review of Album Interview: Pat Metheny: Road to the Sun

Album Interview: Pat Metheny: Road to the Sun

Jason Vieaux | John Dearman | Matthew Greif | Pat Metheny | Scott Tennant | William Kanengiser

Editor's Choice

Modern Recordings/BMG

Rating: ★★★★

Pat Metheny's fascinating odyssey through music continues. Perspicacious as ever, his change of record label to Modern Recordings/BMG presented the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2021

Review of Bill Evans: Live At Birdland, New York City

Bill Evans: Live At Birdland, New York City

Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez | Jack DeJohnette | Marty Morell | Paul Motian | Scott LaFaro | Teddy Kotick

Jazz-A-Nova

Rating: ★★★★

The absolute classics in this batch are combined on the Jazz Images reissue, not only the advertised Waltz For Debby...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2019

Review of Gene Krupa: Second Set/Four Classic Albums Sing, Sing, Sing/Gene Krupa Quartet/Krupa Rocks/The Jazz Rhythms Of Gene Krup

Gene Krupa: Second Set/Four Classic Albums Sing, Sing, Sing/Gene Krupa Quartet/Krupa Rocks/The Jazz Rhythms Of Gene Krup

Bobby Scott | Eddie Shu | Gail Cutis | Gene Krupa | John Drew | Milt Hinton | Mort Herbert | Teddy Napoleon

Avid

Rating: ★★★

Can anyone forget that mid-1940s photograph of the entire Gene Krupa Orchestra decked out in bebop berets, dark shades and...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2014

Review of Holshauser, Bennink & Moore: Live in NYC

Holshauser, Bennink & Moore: Live in NYC

Alan Hampton | Burniss Earl Travis II | Gretchen Parlato | Kendrick Scott | Mark Guiliana | Taylor Eigsti

ObliqSound

Rating: ★★★★

A Dutch-based free jazz trinity of great veterans explore music with a folk dance leaning too....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014

Review of Henry Franklin: Jazz Is Dead 014

Henry Franklin: Jazz Is Dead 014

Adrian Younge | Ali Shaheed Muhammad | Clinton Patterson | Henry Franklin | Jeff Parker | Jonathan Pinson | Nicholas Baker | Scott Mayo

Jazz Is Dead

Rating: ★★★

The fourteenth release in the Jazz Is Dead series sees 81-year-old bass legend Henry Franklin in the leader’s berth, aided...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2022

Review of Rufus Reid: Quiet Pride: The Elizabeth Catlett Project

Rufus Reid: Quiet Pride: The Elizabeth Catlett Project

Charence Wade | Freddie Hendrix | Herlin Riley | Ingrid Jensen | Rufus Reid | Scott Robinson | Steve Allee | Tim Hagans | Vic Juris

Motéma

Rating: ★★★

Double-bass sage Rufus Reid, whose leaner and meaner years were spent with stars like Dexter Gordon, has been involved in...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: April/2014

Review of Hans Lüdemann: Die Kunst Des Trios 1-5

Hans Lüdemann: Die Kunst Des Trios 1-5

Hans Lüdemann

BMC

Rating: ★★★★

Hans Lüdemann is not one for making life easy for himself. Last month he performed a solo concert in Cologne's...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2012

Review of Confluence: Chroniques Terrestres

Confluence: Chroniques Terrestres

André Jaume | Christian Lete | Denis Van Hecke | Didier Levallet | Jean Guérin | Jean Querlier | Philippe Petit | Yves Herwan-Chotard

RCA Victor 1978

If you had to take a blindfold test, how often could you identify which side of the Atlantic a piece...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2016

Review of McClenty Hunter Jr: The Groove Hunter

McClenty Hunter Jr: The Groove Hunter

Christian Sands | Corcoran Holt | Dave Stryker | Donald Harrison | Eddie Henderson | Eric Reed | Eric Wheeler | McClenty Hunter Jr | Stacy Dillard

Strikezone

Rating: ★★★

Drummer McClenty Hunter Jr knows all about the groove roots of hard bop – he started out in gospel music,...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2018

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