Various Artists: New Horizons: A Bristol Jazz Sound
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
Veronica Swift: Confessions
Benny Green | Carl Allen | David Wong | Emmet Cohen | Kyle Poole | Russell Hall | Veronica Swift
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
Jeff Williams: Another Time
Duane Eubanks | Jeff Williams | John Hébert | John O’Gallagher
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
Monocled Man: Ex-Voto
Chris Montague | Jon Scott | Rory Simmons
The trumpeter-composer-programmer Rory Simmons is an original member of North London’s underground LOOP Collective, an organization that became very fertile...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022
ELF: Reflections
Alex Sipiagin | Conrad Herwig | David Kikoski | Igor Butman | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Kenny Davis
Yorkshire-born horn virtuoso Dave Lee is a prominent member of the Michael Nyman Band, as well as having performed at...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2016
Al Jarreau: Original Album Series: We Got By/Glow/All Fly Home/This Time/Breakin' Away
This 5-CD box set from Rhino brings together the first five studio albums of Al Jarreau’s extensive career. The fact...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2011
Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl: Artlessly Falling
Few artists are in such vibrant dialogue with those twin impostors, rigour and imagination, as Mary Halvorson. Practice, practice, practice,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: December/2020
Jennifer Hartswick: Something in the Water
Christian McBride | Conor Elmes | Jennifer Hartswick | Nicholas Cassarino | Rob Marscher
Released via Christian McBride's Mack Avenue Music Group imprint, Brother Mister Productions, and recorded at the legendary Sound Emporium Studios...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2022
The Johnny Dankworth Orchestra: Duet For 16
Now, this is a find. These selections are from transcription recordings made for French radio, with three complete programmes included,...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2015
Hedvig Mollestad: Tempest Revisited
Mollestad’s Trio, whose two shows brought the house down at the recent EFG London Jazz Festival, may have brought her...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2022
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