Review of Album Interview: The Two Minds Big Band: Dave O'Higgins and Peter Wraight

Album Interview: The Two Minds Big Band: Dave O'Higgins and Peter Wraight

Adam Linsley | Andy Lester | Callum Au | Dave O'Higgins | Gemma Moore | Geoff Gascoyne | Graham Harvey | Graham Russell | Henry Armburg Jennings | Judith O'Higgins

JVG Productions

Rating: ★★★

Well here’s a concept to tickle your imagination. O’Higgins and Wraight have known each other on and off for decades,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013

Review of The Dave Pike Quartet featuring Bill Evans: Pike's Peak

The Dave Pike Quartet featuring Bill Evans: Pike's Peak

Bill Evans | Dave Pike | Herbie Lewis | Walter Perkins

Waxtime In Color

Rating: ★★★

This was self-taught vibraphonist Dave Pike's second album under his own name. The interest today is that the pianist on...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2021

Review of The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Live From The Northwest, 1959

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Live From The Northwest, 1959

Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

Brubeck Editions

Rating: ★★★★★

This is a significant snapshot of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, in excellent fidelity, that numbers among Brubeck’s finest live albums...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2024

Review of Dave Douglas: Dark Territory

Dave Douglas: Dark Territory

Dave Douglas | Jonathan Maron | Mark Guiliana | Shigeto

Greenleaf Music

Rating: ★★★★

Douglas’ second album from his electronics-fuelled band confirms, as if confirmation were needed, the horn man's extraordinary vocabulary. Dark Territory...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2016

Review of Dave Stapleton: Flight

Dave Stapleton: Flight

Burniss Traviss | James Francies | Jeremy Dutton | Joel Ross | Mike Mitchell | Mike Moreno

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★

Flight is an important step in the career of Dave Stapleton and marks a temporary break from his quintet that...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2018

Review of Dave Green Trio with Evan Parker: Raise Four

Dave Green Trio with Evan Parker: Raise Four

Dave Green | Evan Parker | Gene Calderazzo | Iain Dixon

Trio Records tr605

Rating: ★★★★

The radio broadcaster Jez Nelson refers to Dave Green as ‘British Jazz Royalty’ in the liner notes of this archive...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2022

Review of Dave Douglas/Uri Caine/Andrew Cyrille: Devotion

Dave Douglas/Uri Caine/Andrew Cyrille: Devotion

Andrew Cyrille | Dave Douglas | Uri Caine

Greenleaf Music

Rating: ★★★★

A longstanding partnership between trumpeter Dave Douglas and pianist Uri Caine is supplemented by drummer Andrew Cyrille, making for a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2019

Review of The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Countdown: Time In Outer Space

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Countdown: Time In Outer Space

Dave Brubeck | Gene Wright | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

Poll Winners Records

Rating: ★★★★

Six studio albums into his Columbia contract, Dave Brubeck recorded Time Out in June, July and August 1959. It was...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2019

Review of Domancich/Avenel/Goubert featuring Dave Liebman: Free 4

Domancich/Avenel/Goubert featuring Dave Liebman: Free 4

Dave Liebman | Jean-Jacques Avenel | Simon Goubert | Sophia Domancich

Cristal

Rating: ★★★

Simon Goubert and Sophia Domancich made strong impressions when they played at Elton Dean's benefit a few years ago. These...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: September/2012

Review of The Dave Brubeck Quartet with Paul Desmond: The Complete Storyville Broadcasts

The Dave Brubeck Quartet with Paul Desmond: The Complete Storyville Broadcasts

Bob Bates | Dave Brubeck | Herb Barman | Joe Dodge | Lloyd Davis | Paul Desmond | Ron Crotty | Wyatt Ruther

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

The three CDs that comprise The Complete Storyville Broadcasts were recorded between February 1952 and July 1954. Thus they contain...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2015

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