Review of Gerry Mulligan: Jeru

Gerry Mulligan: Jeru

Alec Dorsey | Art Farmer | Ben Tucker | Bill Crow | Dave Bailey | Gerry Mulligan | Tommy Flanagan

Essential Jazz Classic

Rating: ★★★

No matter how adept Mulligan's post-Baker quartets were, the fact remains that Mis'tah Chet's shadow still loomed large for many...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Review of Clare Daly: VuVu For Frances

Clare Daly: VuVu For Frances

Clare Daly | Dave Hofstra | David F Gibson | George Garzone | Jon Davis

Daly Bread Records

Rating: ★★★★

Now 65, Clare Daly, a Berklee graduate and educator, has made quite a name for herself on her native New...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2023

Review of Hejira: Live at the Cockpit

Hejira: Live at the Cockpit

Chris Eldred | Dave Jones | Hattie Whitehead | Marc Cecil | Ollie Weston | Pete Oxley | Rick Finlay

Editor's Choice

Spin Jazz Productions

Rating: ★★★★

As readers will recall from February’s Jazzwise, Hejira are a seven-piece British band dedicated to playing the music of Joni...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: September/2024

Review of Paul Desmond: First Place Again

Paul Desmond: First Place Again

Connie Kay | Jim Hall | Paul Desmond | Percy Heath

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★

Paul Desmond and Jim Hall collaborated on a whole series of ‘mood jazz’ albums on the RCA label in the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2019

Review of Mike Clark & Michael Zilber: Mike Drop

Mike Clark & Michael Zilber: Mike Drop

Matt Clark | Michael Zilber | Mike Clark | Peter Barshay

Sunnyside

Rating: ★★★

I wanted to like this album more than I do. Clark is a player named in the press blurb as...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2021

Review of Sebastian Noelle: System One

Sebastian Noelle: System One

Chris Tordini | Dan Weiss | Matt Mitchell | Sebastian Noelle

Fresh Sound New Talent

Rating: ★★★

Sages of various persuasions have probably been giving their pet names to the dialectics of intuition and rationality from the...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2022

Review of Let Spin: Steal The Light

Let Spin: Steal The Light

Chris Williams | Finlay Panter | Moss Freed | Ruth Goller

Efpi Records

Rating: ★★★★

Despite Teo Macero's pinhole surgery on Miles Davis's tape mountains, economics and philosophies of authenticity have minimised jazz post-production. This...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: July/2020

Review of Various Artists: New Horizons: A Bristol Jazz Sound

Various Artists: New Horizons: A Bristol Jazz Sound

Alun Elliott Williams

Worm Discs

Rating: ★★★

In March 2020 (just before ‘you-know-what’) Bristol jazz promoter Worm Disco Club announced the launch of a record label to...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: December/2020

Review of Veronica Swift: Confessions

Veronica Swift: Confessions

Benny Green | Carl Allen | David Wong | Emmet Cohen | Kyle Poole | Russell Hall | Veronica Swift

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★★

The daughter of the jazz singer, educator and author Stephanie Nakasian and the late jazz pianist Hod O'Brien, Veronica Swift...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2019

Review of Jeff Williams: Another Time

Jeff Williams: Another Time

Duane Eubanks | Jeff Williams | John Hébert | John O’Gallagher

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★

The drummer Jeff Williams divides his time between both London and New York. It’s on the latter’s jazz scene that...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

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