AKA Trio: Joy
Adriano Adewale | Antonio Forcione | Seckou Keita
What with all the misery going on in the world, it's heartening to see the concept of joy being presented...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2019
Billy Bang & William Parker: Medicine Buddha
New York's Rubin Museum Of Art was the site for this sublime string summit, the resumption of an intuitive, spiritual...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: March/2015
Mopcut: Accelerated Frames Of Reference
Audrey Chen | Julien Desprez | Lukas König
Proving that it's not where you're from, but where you're at, this trio clearly fell in through their rhythmic drive,...
Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: May/2019
Tommaso Starace: From A Distant Past
Michele Di Toro | Tommaso Starace
Italian saxophonist Starace is a welcome presence on our local scene and perhaps best known for his boppish small groups....
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2016
Tommaso Starace Quartet: Italian Short Stories
Attilio Zanchi | Michele Di Toro | Paolo Fresu | Tommaso Starace | Tommy Bradascio
Tommaso Starace is an efficient and fluid saxophonist with a passion for both cinema and black and white film. This...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2014
Alex Mercado Trio: Symbiosis
Dennis Rollins | Pedro Segundo | Ross Stanley
In the best tradition of latin-rooted jazz pianists, the well-travelled Alex Mercado's playing fizzes with a natural exuberance. In 2012...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015
Randy Brecker & Ada Rovatti: Sacred Bond – Brecker Plays Rovatti
Trumpeter Randy Brecker is well known, saxophonist Ada Rovatti, his frontline partner and wife, less so, at least in jazz...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Duncan Lamont Big Band: As If By Magic…
The background to this highly welcome release is explained in the booklet essay by writer David McKee. Back in 2011,...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2017
Scott Hamilton & Jeff Hamilton Trio: Live in Bern
Christof Luty | Jeff Hamilton | Scott Hamilton | Tamir Hendelman
Scott Hamilton clearly enjoys linking up with sympathetic companions whenever and wherever they appear. Here he teams up with namesake...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2016
Robert Wyatt: '68
Jimi Hendrix | Mike Ratledge | Robert Wyatt
Robert himself isn't keen on the ‘drummer biped’ decade leading up to the 1973 accident that left him paraplegic, and...
Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: March/2014
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