Review of The Omar Hakim Experience: We Are One

The Omar Hakim Experience: We Are One

Abdul Zuhri | Angel Rogers | Bob Franceschini | Chieli Minucci | Gregoire Maret | Jerry Brooks | Jimi Tunnell | Omar Hakim | Rachel Z | Scott Tibbs

Ozmosis

Rating: ★★

There's no escaping the Weather Report influence, whether it's in a crop of re-issues from Pastorious and Vitous or here,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2014

Review of Jon Lucien: I Am Now

Jon Lucien: I Am Now

Bobby Scott | Dave Grusin | Eric Harrigan Jr | Frank Malabe | Jon Lucien | Milt Hisler | Stanley Rubinstein

Big Break Records

Rating: ★★★

Originally released in 1970, Jon Lucien's debut I Am Now veers unpredictably between the great, the overblown and the frankly...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2011

Review of The Trackers: Gary Husband and Alf Terje Hana: Vaudeville 8:45

The Trackers: Gary Husband and Alf Terje Hana: Vaudeville 8:45

Alf Terje Hana | Étienne M'Bappé | Gary Husband | Guy Pratt | Jimmy Haslip | Jimmy Johnson | Kevin Scott | Mark King | Oyvind Grong

Abstract Logix

Rating: ★★★

Husband describes this music as addressing his sense of loss since the death of his Yorkshire guitarist soulmate Allan Holdsworth....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2022

Review of Carlo De Rosa’s Cross-Fade: Brain Dance

Carlo De Rosa’s Cross-Fade: Brain Dance

Carlo De Rosa | Justin Brown | Mark Shim | Vijay Iyer

Cuneiform

Rating: ★★★★

DeRosa is quite a revelation. Best known as a sideman on records with the likes of Ralph Alessi and Rudresh...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2012

Review of Beverley Beirne: Dream Dancer

Beverley Beirne: Dream Dancer

Ben Brown | Cyro Baptista | Duncan Lamont | Flo Moore | Jason Miles | Rob Hughes | Romero Lubambo | Sam Watts

33 Jazz Records

Rating: ★★★★

A spotlight, please, for Beverley Beirne, the Yorkshire-based songstress whose superb alto voice has wowed punters everywhere from Rome to...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2021

Review of The Dave Pike Quartet featuring Bill Evans: Pike's Peak

The Dave Pike Quartet featuring Bill Evans: Pike's Peak

Bill Evans | Dave Pike | Herbie Lewis | Walter Perkins

Waxtime In Color

Rating: ★★★

This was self-taught vibraphonist Dave Pike's second album under his own name. The interest today is that the pianist on...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2021

Review of Samadhi Quintet: The Dance of Venus

Samadhi Quintet: The Dance of Venus

Dominic J Marshall | Krzysztof Urbanski | Sam Bell | Sam Gardner | Sam Vicary

F-IRE Presents F-IRE

Rating: ★★★★

Released by the recording arm of the F-IRE Collective, Samadhi Quintet is led by a young ex-Leeds College of Music...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015

Review of Ron Carter Golden Striker Trio: San Sebastian

Ron Carter Golden Striker Trio: San Sebastian

Mulgrew Miller | Ron Carter | Russell Malone

In & Out IOR

Rating: ★★

When a man gets old his reflexes slow down and he starts to take life easier. It's only natural, especially...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: April/2013

Review of Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns

Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns

Hedvig Mollestad | Ole Mofjell | Ståle Storløkken

Rune Grammofon

Rating: ★★★★

Mollestad has always had to barrel hoop her energies to bring form to her eruptive powers. Her trio is hyper-rehearsed...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2023

Review of Misha Mullov-Abbado: New Ansonia

Misha Mullov-Abbado: New Ansonia

Jacob Collier | James Davison | Matthew Barley | Matthew Heard | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Nick Goodwin | Scott Chapman | Tom Green | Victoria Mullova

Edition

Rating: ★★★

A polished performance at last year's Proms, in the intimate setting of the Elgar Room, showed that Mullov-Abbado's ensemble was...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2015

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