Ken Vandermark's Topology Nonet featuring Joe McPhee: Impressions of Po Music
As McPhee explains in his sometimes-poetic liner notes, the notion of ‘Po’ derives from the philosopher Edward de Bono –...
Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: October/2013
Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet: The Complete Lansdowne Recordings 1965-1969
Formed in late 1962, the Don Rendell/Ian Car Quintet made their debut for the independent Spotlite Label in January 1964,...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019
The Mike Westbrook Concert Band: Last Night at the Old Place
It may seem amazing that such an important document of British jazz history, the last night at Ronnie Scott’s ‘Old...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2018
Gerry Mulligan: Night Lights
Released at the peak of the bossa-nova boom of the early 1960s, on the face of it this album might...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Steve Khan: Public Access/Headline/Crossings
Once Columbia lost faith in fusion, Khan had to change his tune, literally. First he changed guitar, from Tele to...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2018
Miguel Gorodi Nonet: Apophenia
The young Spanish-born trumpeter Miguel Gorodi is a fairly recent ex-Guildhall graduate whose initial efforts have sent him mostly in...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2019
Yazz Ahmed: La Saboteuse
The Bahraini-born trumpeter and flugelhornist Yazz Ahmed has real rock credentials playing with Radiohead, These New Puritans and Joan as...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017
Snowboy & The Latin Section: New York Afternoon
Three decades into his career and Snowboy has lent his inimitable skills on the skins to everyone from Airto Moreira...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2016
Snazzback: Ruins Everything
Having steadily grown from a busy busking collective into an even busier live band, the pandemic hit Bristol septet Snazzback...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: June/2023
Ben Webster: The Warm Moods
I've just been gazing wistfully at a flyer for Dopey Dick's Jazzhouse in West Hampstead. On three separate Wednesdays in...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2014
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