Jihye Lee Orchestra: Infinite Connections
The South Korean former pop singer and Berklee-graduated big-band composer Jihye Lee confirmed how eloquently she could balance fast-moving postbop...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2024
The John Aram Quintet with Kenny Wheeler: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Suite
Andy Scherrer | Colin Vallon | Dave Whitford | John Aram | Kenny Wheeler | Norbert Pfammatter
This stunning production – in terms of packaging, production, an audiophile pressing on 180 gram vinyl and well conceived and...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2015
Nick Smart's Trogon: Tower Casa
Chris Montague | Dave Hamblett | Denny ‘Jimmy’ Martinez | Kishon Khan | Nick Smart | Pete Eckford
The head of Jazz at the Royal Academy of Music has released two CDs previously, both tributes, Remembering Nick Drake...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Paul Booth: 44
Booth is the great communicator. Whatever style he plays, and new album 44 covers everything from the rock-grooved ‘Blues in...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2022
Michel Portal: Men's Land
This album, from a May 1987 concert at the seventh Amiens International Jazz Festival by a group led by tenor...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2016
Steve Melling/Clark Tracey Special Septet: Special One
It’s taken a while for this to emerge but the wait was worth it. Something of a reunion of old...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2011
Rosie Frater-Taylor: Featherweight
Dave Edwards | Lewis Moody | Rob Mullarkey | Rosie Frater-Taylor | Tim Potter
If the self-released Bloom was Frater-Taylor’s ‘coming of age’ album, then Featherweight is a realisation that, even at 24, life...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2024
Black Top: # One
Orphy Robinson | Pat Thomas | Steve Williamson
By contemporary CD standards this is relatively brief at just over 42 minutes, but packs the kind of punch that...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2014
Chris Potter Circuits Trio: Sunrise Reprise
Chris Potter | Eric Harland | James Francies
Sometimes recordings are all about the timing, and we're not talking about a musical pulse here. Whether it's the cathartic...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2021
Various Artists: Keynote Jazz Collection 1941-1947
For the first half of the 20th century, radio and the jukebox were the two main building blocks of contemporary...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2016
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