Gerry Mulligan/Art Farmer: Gerry Mulligan & Art Farmer
This Gerry Mulligan Quartet was a very different beast to its earlier, and more celebrated, Chet Baker-featured incarnation. For one...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2020
Rendell/Carr Quintet: BBC Jazz Club II 1965-1966
Dave Green | Don Rendell | Ian Carr | Mike Carr | Mike Garrick, | Trevor Tomkins
Garrick replaced Colin Purbrook in this group early in 1965, and it’s this revised line-up and three more of their...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2021
Joe McPhee: Nation Time
“What time is it?” “Nation time!” From the incantatory call-and-response intro echoing poet Amiri Baraka’s impassioned, Afro-centric call to action,...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Feb/2019
Album Interview: Van Morrison: Born to Sing: No Plan B
Van Morrison has jazz in his blood, only a fool would think otherwise, and Born to Sing is the latest...
Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: October/2012
Tina May: My Kinda Love
Dave Green | Frank Griffth | Freddie Gavita | Ian Laws | John Pearce | Tina May | Winston Clifford
This new album from the outstanding vocalist Tina May serves almost like a second act to her previous Hep Jazz...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2015
Various Artists: Innerpeace Rare Spiritual Funk & Jazz Gems
Following the critical acclaim lavished upon the first volume of music from Mainstream records, this second installment shows that producer...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2017
O'Higgins & Luft: Pluto
Dave O'Higgins | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Rob Luft | Rod Youngs | Ross Stanley
Three years ago the O'Higgins/Luft alliance mined a rich vein covering the songs of Coltrane and Monk on the appropriately...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
John Minnock: Simplicity
John Minnock began his career singing in the Boston area, but has now become a regular on the jazz and...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2022
Trevor Watts String Ensemble: Cynosure
If collective free improvisation summons images of furrowed brows and unsmiling aural assaults then stick this platter in your play...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2016
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
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