Sammy Figueroa: Searching for a Memory
Raised in Puerto Rico, premier league percussionist Sammy Figueroa was actually born in New York. His career as a sideman...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: September/2023
Tubby Hayes: Tubby The Tenor
Clark Terry | Dave Bailey | Eddie Costa | George Duvivier | Horace Parlan | Tubby Hayes
Reissued just in time to mark the 60th anniversary of Hayes’ ground-breaking New York debut (see cover feature this issue),...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: October/2021
Nick Costley-White: Detour Ahead
Conor Chaplin | Dave Hamblett | Matt Robinson | Nick Costley-White | Sam Rapley
This debut from young guitarist Nick Costley-White, one of the founders of influential London night the Jazz Nursery, mixes knotty...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: September/2018
Henry Lowther's Quarternity: Never Never Land
Alan Wakeman | Art Themen | Dave Green Chris Laurence | Henry Lowther | Phil Lee | Trevor Tomkins
Quaternity may very well be the British modern jazz group that you’ve never heard of or is that just me?...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Nigel Hitchcock: Smoothitch
Pity the poor reviewer faced with an album like this. Titles are listed (most tracks credited to ‘Hitch’) as is...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2013
Grant Green and Baby Face Willette: Trio & Quartet/The Complete Recordings
Baby Face Willette | Ben Dixon | Dave Bailey | Fred Jackson | Grant Green | Lou Donaldson
Blink and you could have easily missed Roosevelt Baby Face Willette whose stay at Blue Note amounted to just five...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2014
Ed Neumeister Quartet: What Have I Done?
Drew Gress | Ed Neumeister | Gary Versace | Tom Rainey
In the often captivating mix of idiosyncrasy and elegance of this intriguing set, the American trombonist, composer and educator Ed...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Dexter Gordon: Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard
Dexter Gordon | Louis Hayes | Ronnie Matthews | Stafford James | Woody Shaw
Dexter Gordon moved to Copenhagen in 1962. He sent back a couple of musical postcards from Paris, one in 1963,...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2021
Nick Mason: Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports
Despite their (early on, at least), reputation for weirdness and freakery, Pink Floyd's individual members all had fairly straightforward and...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: May/2023
David Sylvian: Blemish
David Sylvian's journey from pretty pop idol to the outer reaches of the avant-garde is equalled by few other musicians:...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2022
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