Duke Ellington/Charlie Mingus/Max Roach: Money Jungle
Charles Mingus | Duke Ellington | Max Roach
Along with the output of Bill Evans' great but short-lived group with Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian, Money Jungle is...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2020
Tubby Hayes Quintet: Dancing in the Dark
Allan Ganley | Freddy Logan | Jimmy Deuchar | Terry Shannon | Tubby Hayes
Lumped a little clumsily together into a single CD here are two vinyl albums which evoked considerable national pride in...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: October/2011
Various Artists: Keep It Light: A Panorama Of British Jazz – The Modernists
While not trying to downgrade the artistry of either Humphrey Lyttelton or George Melly, I don't believe that their musical...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2017
Tim Ries: Life Changes
Ries is best known for his decades on sax and keys for the Stones from which two impressive recordings came,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2019
Rainbow Gravity
You can’t deny Petito his passion for all things 1970s on this jazz fusion retro fest: he hasn’t just assembled...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Feb/2019
Emilia Mårtensson: Ana
Immensely subtle arrangements, exquisitely beautiful songs, and, at its centre, a voice of quite remarkable expressive depth. With her second...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2016
Bob Mintzer Big Band: Get Up
Bob Mintzer's big band is as muscular as his tenor sax playing with the band Yellowjackets. Riffs come with sharp...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2015
Ray Guntrip & Tina May: Mood in Blue
Veteran pianist-composer Guntrip has evidently been a busy figure on the UK scene for many years, sometimes uniting with jazz...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2024
Alex Hitchcock/Ant Law: Same Moon in the Same World
London-born saxophonist Alex Hitchcock is only six years out of the Royal Academy of Music's jazz course, but he's already...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: February/2023
Loose Tubes: Arriving
Here's the highly-anticipated third and final instalment in the ‘live’ trilogy of recordings from Loose Tubes' farewell residency at Ronnie...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2015
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