Joey DeFrancesco: 40
Joey DeFrancesco | Joey Defrancesco | Ramon Banda | Rick Zunigar
Big Joey D has just turned 40, which explains the title of this album and its uncharacteristic mood of mellowness....
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012
Tom Scott: Tom Scott & The L.A. Express/Tom Cat/New York Connection
A three-CDs-for-one package that captures the heady time when rock, jazz and, lummee, commercial success briefly coalesced. The eponymous debut...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2014
Soft Machine: The Harvest Albums: 1975-1978 — Bundles
Given the era and the label, Harvest being EMI's prog-rock arm, it's no surprise that this is the Softs squarely...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2019
Ahmad Jamal Trio: Complete Live At The Spotlite Club 1958
Ahmad Jamal | Israel Crosby | Vernel Fournier
One of the only things John Hammond and Miles Davis agreed on was that Jamal was marvellous. Forgive me if...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2014
John Coltrane: Mono
This is a valuable collection, despite one obvious flaw which we'll come to in a sec. Although we've had the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2016
Magma: Riah Sahiltaahk
Just when you thought it was safe to put away your Kobaian dictionary (filed alongside your Klingon thesaurus) up pops...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015
Gwen & Tiana: African Time
“Alone, I go faster; together, we go further,” runs the proverb emblazoned on the sleeve of African Time, a work...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2019
James Morton's Porkchop: Don't You Worry ‘Bout That
Dan Moore | Denny Ilett | Ian Matthews | James Morton
Here's a treat: Morton has been around far too long for someone so indecently young, with regular gigs with Pee...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2010
Dal Sasso/Belmondo Big Band: John Coltrane A Love Supreme
Recorded in 2002, the piece opens with a recitation of ‘A Love Supreme’ poem, written by Coltrane in December 1964,...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2014
Rudolph Johnson: The Second Coming
Doug Sides | Kent Brinkley | Kirk Lightsey | Rudolph Johnson
In 1973 Ohio-born tenor sax player Rudolph Johnson and the other members of his quartet were still mining the rich...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: December/January/2021/2022
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