Georgia Mancio/Alan Broadbent: A Story Left Untold
Alan Broadbent | Andrew Cleyndert | Dave Ohm | FAME’s Studio Orchestra | Georgia Mancio
Completing a critically-acclaimed trilogy following Songbook (2017) and Quiet Is The Star (2021), the latest collaboration between vocalist Georgia Mancio...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2025
Julie London: Five Classic Albums
Featuring original artwork and liner notes, this latest release in the Avid Jazz Five Classic Albums series presents a second...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2023
Emily Saunders: Outsiders Insiders
Bruno Heinen | Byron Wallen | Dave Whitford | Emily Saunders | Jon Scott | Trevor Mires
I was a huge fan of Emily Saunders' 2011 debut Cotton Skies, not least because it showcased an artist who...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2015
Brother Jack McDuff: Ain’t No Sunshine: Live in Seattle
Dave Young | Jack McDuff | Lee Johnson | plus uncredited | Ron Davis | Vinne Corrae
This spectacularly so-so excursion into public domain blues riffs by Brother Jack McDuff is certainly not up to the standard...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2024
Pete Atkin: The Luck of the Draw – The Clive James-Pete Atkin Songbook Volume 2
Although long aware of 78-year-old singer-songwriter Atkin’s association with the late Clive James, I hadn’t ever heard Atkin perform before...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2023
Various Artists: The Complete BeeHive Sessions
Here is a forcible reminder that Wynton Marsalis didn’t start the back-to-hard-bop movement in the 1980s but, rather like Miles...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2016
Samuel Eagles' SPIRIT: Ask, Seek, Knock
Dave Hamblett | Duncan Eagles | Jean Toussaint | Max Luthert | Ralph Wyld | Sam Leak | Samuel Eagles
Young British altoist Samuel Eagles is a strong player with a rich sound and a fondness for bubbling, double-time runs....
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: July/2017
Fini Bearman: Burn The Boat
Conor Chaplin | Dave Hamblett | Fini Bearman | Matt Robinson | Nick Costley-White | Robin Mallarkey
Having impressed with her 2011 debut Step Up and her 2014 reworkings of classic Gershwin material on Porgy & Bess,...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2016
Snowpoet
Soft-focus songs with poetic pretentions, as suggested in the group’s name and the inclusion of W. B. Yeats and Sylvia...
Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: March/2016
Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band: Body and Shadow
Brian Blade | Chris Thomas | Dave Devine | Jon Cowherd | Melvin Butler | Myron Walden
The superlative drummer Brian Blade’s Fellowship Band has retained the nucleus of the line-up that recorded the eponymous debut release...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2018
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