Tessa Souter: Picture In Black And White
As you might expect from a protégé of the late, great Mark Murphy, the London-born, New York-based vocalist Tessa Souter...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Feb/2019
Chico Hamilton: Revelation
If jazz featured in the Guinness Book of Jazz Records, drummer Foreststorn “Chico” Hamilton would probably head the longevity chapter...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: October/2011
Alphonse Mouzon: By All Means
If you want to wind up Billy Cobham (go on, I dare yah!), just mention disco drumming, and how it...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2022
DE3: Live At Maxwell's
Dezron Douglas | Duane Eubanks | Eric McPherson
DE3 is three fifths of the quintet Eubanks has been concentrating his efforts upon for the past few years. A...
Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: August/2016
James Spaulding: Plays the Legacy of Duke Ellington
Avery Brooks | Billy Higgins | Cedar Walton | James Spaulding | Mtume | Sam Jones | Steve Nelson
This was the Indianapolis-born Spaulding's debut album as a leader although he had already gained praise as a sideman with...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2013
Kevin Hays New Day Trio: North
Greg Joseph | Kevin Hays | Rob Jost
Even without the reprises of Schumann's ‘Chamisso’ and Parker's ‘Scrapple From The Apple’, Hays’ leaning towards classical music and astute...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2016
1982: Chromola
Nils Økland | Øyvind Skarbø | Sigbjørn Apeland
“The most important thing that sets us apart from other improvised groups I have been part of is the total...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2017
Tom Syson Sextet: Green
Ben Lee | David Ferris | Jonathan Silk | Lauren Kinsella | Tom Syson | Vittorio Mura
For the most part jazz is urban music. It thrives amid the clamour and the crush of cities, where people...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: August/2017
David Binney: Anacapa
The saxophonist-composer David Binney's seventh release for the Dutch-based recorded-in-Brooklyn label Criss Cross, Anacapa, sounds like it could be the...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014
Quentin Angus: The State Of Things
Can Olgun | Desmond White | Michael Mayo | Nate Smith | Quentin Angus
Jazz musicians have long exercised the right not to make jazz, and Australian guitarist Quentin Angus, previously noted for his...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2022
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