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
Charles Mingus: Complete Columbia & RCA Albums Collection
Compared to the stifling effect of Sony's blanket coverage of Dave Brubeck, their holdings of Mingus are quite modest. Now...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012
Pablo Held Trio: Investigations
Jonas Burgwinkel | Pablo Held | Robert Landfermann
The Cologne-based Pablo Held has been wowing critics in his native Germany and beyond for about 10 years now. Even...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2018
Anton Eger: Æ
When witnessing ‘live’ the high flying international piano trio Phronesis, it’s the Oslo-born drummer Anton Eger who most catches your...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2019
JD Allen: Americana Vol 2
Charlie Hunter | Gregg August | J.D Allen | Rudy Royston
Since Detroit-born tenorist JD Allen's solo recording debut in 1999, this unobtrusively fine musician has figured in DownBeat Critics' Polls,...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Kazemde George: I Insist
Adam Arruda | Isaac Wilson | Kazemde George | Sami Stevens | Tyron Allen II
Brooklyn-based now, George is a Caribbean American saxophonist from Berkeley, California, who says these 10 compositions reflect the ‘experiences, circumstances...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2021
Tom Rainey: Obbligato
Drew Gress | Ingrid Laubrock | Kris Davis | Ralph Alessi | Tom Rainey
You wouldn't normally associate the drummer Tom Rainey – and the kind of left-field New York-based improvisers with whom he...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2014
David Forman: Like A Rainbow
David Forman is a remarkable autodidact, now in his nineties, who for five decades was a full-time Brighton dentist and...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2022
Linda May Han Oh: The Glass Hours
Fabian Almazan | Linda May Han Oh | Mark Turner | Obed Calvaire | Sara Serpa
Linda May Han Oh, one of the most in-demand bass players on the scene and partner to jazz stars including...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2023
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