Review of The Darius Brubeck Quartet: Cathy's Summer

The Darius Brubeck Quartet: Cathy's Summer

Darius Brubeck | Dave O'Higgins | Matt Ridley | Wesley Gibbens

Gathering Forces

Rating: ★★★

Some eternal values remain, not the least the benign influence of Dave Brubeck through his accomplished clan. Featuring eight of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2015

Review of Ray Russell: Now More Than Ever

Ray Russell: Now More Than Ever

Anthony Jackson | Gary Husband | George Baldwin | Jim Watson | Jimmy Johnson | Mo Foster | Ralph Salmins | Ray Russell

Abstract Logix

Rating: ★★★★

Why Russell recordings are as infrequent as the number 11 bus remains one of life’s mysteries: so now, more than...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013

Review of Shatner's Bassoon: Disco Erosion

Shatner's Bassoon: Disco Erosion

Craig Scott | Johnny Richards | Joost Hendrickx | Michael Bardon | Oliver Dover

Wasp Millionaire

Rating: ★★★

With a name pilfered from one of the more absurd episodes of Chris Morris's Brass Eye, Shatner's Bassoon have always...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2018

Review of Chris Biscoe/Allison Neale: Then And Now

Chris Biscoe/Allison Neale: Then And Now

Allison Neale | Chris Biscoe | Colin Oxley | Jeremy Brown | Stu Butterfield

Editor's Choice

Trio

Rating: ★★★★

The co-leaders, both respected soloists and bandleaders in their own right, have come together to play music inspired by the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2017

Review of Ambrose Akinmusire: The Imagined Savior is Far Easier To Paint

Ambrose Akinmusire: The Imagined Savior is Far Easier To Paint

Ambrose Akinmusire | Becca Stevens | Charles Altura | Cold Specks | Harish Raghavan | Justin Brown | OSSO String Quartet | Sam Harris | Theo Bleckmann | Walter Smith III

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★

This is trumpeter Akinmusire's second album on the Blue Note label that follows the critically acclaimed When the Heart Emerges...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2014

Review of Stan Getz Quartet: Swiss Radio Days Vol. 29

Stan Getz Quartet: Swiss Radio Days Vol. 29

Ed Thigpen | Jan Johansson | Ray Brown | Stan Getz

TCB The Montreux Jazz Label

Rating: ★★★★

Impresario Norman Granz could never be accused of ever short-changing concertgoers. By 1960, his twice-yearly JATP road shows had changed...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Review of Joe McPhee & André Jaume: Nuclear Family

Joe McPhee & André Jaume: Nuclear Family

André Jaume | Joe McPhee

Editor's Choice

CvsD

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded six years apart, here's Joe McPhee in two radically different performance situations. With French saxophonist André Jaume he reinvents...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: March/2017

Review of Gianluigi Trovesi/Gianni Coscia: La Misteriosa Musica Della Regina Loana

Gianluigi Trovesi/Gianni Coscia: La Misteriosa Musica Della Regina Loana

Gianluigi Trovesi | Gianni Coscia

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

One of Italy's most influential progressive jazz musicians, Gianluigi Trovesi has always drawn from a rich vein of Italian tradition...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2019

Review of Art Pepper Quartet: Live At Fat Tuesday's

Art Pepper Quartet: Live At Fat Tuesday's

Al Foster | Art Pepper | George Mraz | Milcho Leviev

Elemental

Rating: ★★★

Having staged a remarkable comeback after many years of tribulation that would have buried a lesser person, Art Pepper knew...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Review of Ray Charles: Live 1958-60

Ray Charles: Live 1958-60

David ‘Fathead’ Newman | Edgar Willis | Hank Crawford | John Hunt | Lee Harper | Leroy Cooper | Marcus Belgrave | Mili Turner | Phillip Guilbeau | Ray Charles

Hoodoo

Rating: ★★★★

In June 1952, Atlantic Records purchased Charles’ recording contract for $2,500, but the Ertegun Brothers were later outbid by RCA-Victor...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

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