Ollie Howell: Self-Identity
Ant Law | Duncan Eagles | Henry Spencer | Matt Robinson | Max Luthert | Ollie Howell
Ollie Howell swung through karmic extremes in 2009, distracted from the growing pain in his head by the patronage of...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2017
Various: The Road To Jajouka
For centuries, a remote village in the southern Rif mountains of Morocco has been home to the ecstatic trance rituals...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Luis Perdomo: Links
Dwayne Burno | Luis Perdomo | Miguel Zenón | Rodney Green
This record is a nice change of pace for the exceptionally talented Venezuelan pianist, and also for Puerto Rican altoist...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2013
Jazz At The Philharmonic: 1958-1960 Live in Paris
The common factor linking this 3CD concert collection is the location: Paris, with the Olympia and Salle Pleyel as alternating...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2016
SEED Ensemble: Driftglass
Though Cassie Kinoshi is fully aware of 1960s American civil rights suites such as her alto icon Jackie McLean’s It’s...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2019
Billy Strayhorn: Out of the Shadows
Unlike the excellent George Lewis and Louis Armstrong boxes from Storyville, which I have reviewed here in the past year,...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014
Lem Winchester: New Faces At Newport/A Tribute To Clifford Brown
Don't know about nowadays, but the vibraphone was once regarded as the most difficult instrument to record; the sound of...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2013
Various Artists: Jazz At The Philharmonic Complete Live In Stockholm 1960
It has never been a perfect world, but if it were, then commemorative stamps would be issued, coins struck and...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012
Paul Desmond: Glad to be Unhappy
Connie Kay | Gene Cherico | Gene Wright | Jim Hall | Paul Desmond
Today, for the majority of younger jazz fans/jazz students/musicians, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond is gone (he died in 1977) and...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2017
The Trio: Incantation: The Dawn Recordings 1970-1971
John Surman was in his headlong 20s when these sessions were recorded by the collective threesome known simply as The...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2018
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