Marcus Strickland: Triumph of the Heavy (Vols 1 & 2)
Ben Williams | David Bryant | EJ Strickland | Marcus Strickland
Marcus Strickland continues to grow in stature with every release. This is his seventh as a leader and the fourth...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012
Charles Tolliver/Music Inc. & Orchestra: Impact
Trumpeter Charles Tolliver was, with Stanley Cowell, the co-founder of the pioneering artist-owned Strata-East label, home of many crucial 1970s...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2020
The Tubby Hayes Quartet: Seven Steps to Heaven: Live at the Hopbine 1972
Daryl Runswick | Mick Pyne | Tony Oxley | Tubby Hayes
If the previous Tubby Hayes appearance on Gearbox Records – The Jazz Couriers, Live in Morecambe 1959: Tippin' (GB 1510)...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2014
Bill Evans: Some Other Time: Lost Session from the Black Forest
Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez | Jack DeJohnette
The surprise discovery of a studio session by this unique trio means that, instead of just the famous live album...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2016
Osian Roberts: Bop Viveur
Jeremy Brown | Matt Fishwick | Osian Roberts | Rob Barron
By naming their jointly-founded label as they did, Roberts and the Fishwick brothers made clear their creative intentions and haven’t...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2024
Snorre Kirk: What A Day!
Alexander Honey Boulton | Anders Fjeldsted | Giacomo Smith | Joe Webb | Snorre Kirk
Danish drummer-composer Kirk has graced our pages a few times recently and the present quartet (minus Boulton who appears on...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2025
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Red Hot
Formed in 2003, the wacky satirists MOPDTK are the new arch subversives of the New York underground jazz scene. Their...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013
The Tubby Hayes Quartet: Free Flight
Mick Pyne | Ron Mathewson | Tony Levin | Tubby Hayes
There was a time when the only representation of Hayes on record was to be found in secondhand vinyl shops...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/2020
Paul Grabowsky Sextet: The Bitter Suite
Andrew Robson | Cameron Undy | James Greening | Jamie Oehlers | Paul Grabowsky | Simon Barker
Paul Grabowsky is one of the major figures in the Australian jazz scene, but it would be fair to say...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2015
Charles Mingus: The Lost Album From Ronnie Scott’s
Bobby Jones | Charles McPherson | Charles Mingus | Dannie Richmond | John Foster | Jon Faddis
Change has been a constant in the history of black music, but the time in which Charles Mingus led a...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2022
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