Review of Phil Seamen: Seamen's Mission

Phil Seamen: Seamen's Mission

Albert Hall | Benny Green | Billy Olu Shoanke | Bob Burns | Bobby Lamb | Bobby Pratt | Cliff Townsend | Coleridge Goode | Dave Usden | Derek Humble

Properbox

Rating: ★★★★★

Over half the material contained in this indispensible four-CD box was originally created for the Tempo label under the keen-eared...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2011

Review of Roger Garftt, Nikki Iles, John Williams Octet: In All My Holy Mountain

Roger Garftt, Nikki Iles, John Williams Octet: In All My Holy Mountain

Bob Sydor | Dave Warren | Dick Pearce | John Williams | Karen Sharp | Nikki Iles | Pete Hurt | Roger Garftt | Tom Mark | Trevor Tomkins

Re-stringing the Lyre

Rating: ★★★

The fusion of poetry with jazz has been like a furtive undertow in the music's development. The idea appears and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2017

Review of Tony Oxley: Unreleased 1974-2016

Tony Oxley: Unreleased 1974-2016

Barry Guy | Dave Holdsworth | Howard Riley | Hugh Metcalfe | Larry Stabbins | Paul Rutherford | Phil Wachsmann | Stefan Hoelker | Tony Oxley

Discus

Rating: ★★★

Little needs to be said of percussionist Tony Oxley’s credentials as a figurehead of improvised music – either through his...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2022

Review of Partikel: String Theory

Partikel: String Theory

Benet Mclean | Benet McLean | Carmen Flores | Dave Le Page | Duncan Eagles | Eric Ford | Mathew Sharp | Max Luthert

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

London based trio, Partikel, have been playing together for over six years, including a running regular weekly jam session at...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2015

Review of Karl Jenkins: Penumbra II

Karl Jenkins: Penumbra II

Alan Skidmore | Brian Smith | Chris Spedding | Dave MacRae | Frank Ricotti | Ian Carr | John Marshall | Karl Jenkins | Ray Babbington | Ray Warleigh

Editor's Choice

Jazz In Britain JIB

Rating: ★★★★

The not-for-profit Jazz in Britain team have done UK jazz a huge service by releasing previously unissued material, mainly from...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2023

Review of Andreas Varady

Andreas Varady

Andreas Varady | Brian Bromberg | Dave Weckl | Greg Phillinganes | Gregory Porter | Harvey Mason | Paulinho da Costa | Paulinho Da Costa | Roy Hargrove

Verve

Rating: ★★

That the Slovakian-born guitarist is only 17 and a precociously gifted technician is the hook here. It starts promisingly with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014

Review of Herbie Mann: Original Album Series

Herbie Mann: Original Album Series

Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez | Elliott Zigmund | Joe LaBarbera | Larry Schneider | Marc Johnson | Toots Thielemans

Rhino/Warner

Rating: ★★★★

For years, Herbie Mann had been sneaking by without really finding his true niche. That was until 1963 when he...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2016

Review of Sun Ra Arkestra: Under The Direction of Marshall Allen: Babylon

Sun Ra Arkestra: Under The Direction of Marshall Allen: Babylon

Cecil Brooks | Danny Ray Thompson | Dave Davis | Dave Hotep | Elson Nascimento | Farid Barron | James Stuart | Knoel Scott | Marshall Allen | Stanley Morgan

Editor's Choice

In+Out Records CD/DVD

Rating: ★★★★

In 1990 Sun Ra and his Arkestra were invited to play a prominent role at a Turkish music festival in...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: August/2015

Review of Masabumi Kikuchi: Wishes/Kochi

Masabumi Kikuchi: Wishes/Kochi

Al Foster | Anthony Jackson | Dave Liebman | Masabumi Kikuchi | M'tume | Reggie Lucas | Steve Grossman | Terumasa Hino

Inner City 1978

The recent unearthing of Miles Davis's 1970 Fillmore dates provided a thrilling glimpse of the birth of the gritty funk-jazz-rock...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2014

Review of Kansas Smitty's: Things Happened Here

Kansas Smitty's: Things Happened Here

Alec Harper | Dave Archer | Ferg Ireland | Giacomo Smith | Joe Webb | Pete Horsfall | Will Cleasby

Ever/!K7

Rating: ★★★

Kansas Smitty's is a Hackney bar as well as a band, a musical utopia whose name was conjured from speakeasy...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: August/2020

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