Review of Geoff Warren: Flute Fables

Geoff Warren: Flute Fables

Tutu Records

Rating: ★★★

English world-jazz musician Geoff Warren, a musician who started his career with Graham Collier, goes from freewheeling improv solo to...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2011

Review of Toco: Memoria

Toco: Memoria

Schema

Rating: ★★★

Easy-going, yet sensuous sounds from the Brazilian North east and Rio from a band led by vocalist Toco, which combines...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014

Review of Phoenician Blinds: The Sight, the Seer and the Seen

Phoenician Blinds: The Sight, the Seer and the Seen

Self-release

Rating: ★★★

This young London-based quartet’s kind of contemporary, easy-going lyricism and groove-ability reminiscent of their core influences Avishai Cohen, EST, and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020

Review of Scott Hamilton: Live in Barcelona

Scott Hamilton: Live in Barcelona

Esteve Pi | Gerard Nieto | Ignasi Gonzalez | Scott Hamilton

Blau

Rating: ★★★

Hamilton was in Barcelona for a couple of nights in December 2010 and this Spanish issue selects the best of...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2016

Review of Tim Berne/Matt Mitchell: Angel Dusk

Tim Berne/Matt Mitchell: Angel Dusk

Matt Mitchell | Tim Berne

Screwgun

Rating: ★★★

The pianist Matt Mitchell, one of the go-to NY-based improv scene all-rounders, is Berne's closest collaborator of recent years. Besides...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018

Review of Ola Kvernberg: Steamdome

Ola Kvernberg: Steamdome

Grappa

Rating: ★★

With three drummers on board, this Norwegian fiddle specialist's new CD doesn't always go for the jugular, evoking Morricone's ominous...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018

Review of Kenny Dorham: Four Classic Albums: Second Set

Kenny Dorham: Four Classic Albums: Second Set

Art Taylor | Bobby Timmons | Clarence Sharpe | Curtis Fuller | George Coleman | Horace Silver | Lee Morgan | Paul Chambers | Pepper Adams | Philly Joe Jones

Avid

Rating: ★★★★

This set cherrypicks three Blue Note dates and one Riverside session, from 1955-1961, rather than (as some other such Avid...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Review of Julie London: Calendar Girl/Around Midnight

Julie London: Calendar Girl/Around Midnight

Fine and Mellow

Rating: ★★

The show biz end of London's late-1950s and early-60s recordings, still with her husky, jazzy voice, but set in schmaltzy...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Review of Oli Rockberger: Sovereign

Oli Rockberger: Sovereign

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★

A MOR singer-songwriter/keyboardist with a bittersweet tone and easy-going manner that might appeal to lovers of US male vocalists such...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Review of Tran(ce) Formation: Quartet Entrance

Tran(ce) Formation: Quartet Entrance

Leo

Rating: ★★

Led by the Italian flautist and bansuri player Giorgia Santoro, this quartet mixes chill out trance and Indo-jazz in a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2011

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