Review of Radio.string.quartet.vienna: Radiodream

Radio.string.quartet.vienna: Radiodream

Asja Valcic | Bernie Mallinger | Cynthia Liao | Igmar Jenner

ACT

Rating: ★★★★

The arrival of the radio.string.quartet.vienna with an unlikely album of compositions from one of the loudest bands in jazz history,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2012

Review of John Daversa Quintet: Cuarantena: With Family At Home

John Daversa Quintet: Cuarantena: With Family At Home

Carlo de Rosa | Dafnis Prieto | Gonzalo Rubalcaba | John Daversa | Sammy Figueroa

Tiger Turn

Rating: ★★★

John Daversa is a hornsman to be reckoned with. Among a zillion other accolades, the longtime Angeleno's 2019 big-band album...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2020

Review of Keith & Julie Tippett – Couple in Spirit: Sound on Stone

Keith & Julie Tippett – Couple in Spirit: Sound on Stone

Julie Tippetts | Keith Tippett

Editor's Choice

Discus Music Discus

Rating: ★★★★

This album is sadly not what it was supposed to be. Thirty years after their first Couple In Spirit recording,...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: April/2023

Review of Tubby Hayes: Split Kick – Live In Sweden 1972

Tubby Hayes: Split Kick – Live In Sweden 1972

Alex Riel | Bengt Hallberg | Egil Johansen | Georg Riedel | Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen | Staffan Abeleen | Tubby Hayes

Savage Solweig

Rating: ★★★★

Here's volume four of the Salvage-Solweig discoveries, a further cull from the cache of previously-unheard tapes held by the late...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2016

Review of Marc Ribot: Songs of Resistance 1942-2018

Marc Ribot: Songs of Resistance 1942-2018

Chad Taylor | Ches Smith | Curtis Fowlkes | Dave Eggar | Devin Hoff | Domenica Fossati | Doug Wieselman | Eric Heywood | Erik Friedlander | Fay Victor

Rating: ★★★★

Trump is beyond satire and shame, making artistic opposition seem hopeless. Social media’s intimate propaganda walls up minds that might...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: Feb/2019

Review of Branford Marsalis: In My Solitude: Live at Grace Cathedral

Branford Marsalis: In My Solitude: Live at Grace Cathedral

Branford Marsalis

OKeh

Rating: ★★★★

The solo concert is the ultimate challenge for jazz musicians – no one else to share the creative burden, every...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Review of Steve Lacy: The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy: The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy

Charles Davis | John Ore | Roy Haynes | Steve Lacy

Candid

Rating: ★★★

From the second batch of the Candid label’s recent reissue programme, The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy, only his third...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2023

Review of Gary Husband: Songs of Love and Solace

Gary Husband: Songs of Love and Solace

Gary Husband

Editor's Choice

Self-release/BFD Records

Rating: ★★★★

A highly promising classical pianist in his youth, Husband’s teacher hurled his beloved (vinyl) copy of Bill Evans’ Live at...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2024

Review of John Hollenbeck & NDR Bigband: Colouring Hockets

John Hollenbeck & NDR Bigband: Colouring Hockets

JC Sanford | John Hollenbeck | Matt Moran | NDR Big Band | Patricia Brennan

Flexatonic Records

Rating: ★★★

For two decades the New York-born, Montreal-based drummer-percussionist John Hollenbeck has led a dynamic and inspired multi-Grammy nominated large ensemble...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/2024

Review of Dave Brubeck: Time Further Out

Dave Brubeck: Time Further Out

Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright | Joe Benjamin | Joe Morello | Paul Desmond

Phoenix Records

Rating: ★★★★

Time Further Out was Dave Brubeck's follow-up to his hugely successful Time Out, which explored varied time signatures and which...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2015

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