Durga Rising: Durga Rising — An Indo–Jazz Adventure
Barb Jungr | James Tomalin | Kuljit Bhamra | Russell Churney | Stan Adler
If you are going to name yourselves after a Hindu deity (and, secondguessing that Shakti, the embodiment of feminine creative...
Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: March/2012
Alan_Braufman: The Fire Still Burns
Alan Braufman | Andrew Drury | Cooper-Moore | James Brandon Lewis | Ken Filiano | Michael Wimberly
It's the kind of comeback you normally only see in movies. In the early 1970s, saxophonist Alan Braufman was a...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2020
Kurt Elling: The Questions
With an eclectic song-list that ranges from Bob Dylan and Paul Simon to standards and originals, The Questions presents Kurt...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2018
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes: Expansions
For anyone who grew up in the jazz-funk belt of Kent, London and Essex in the 1970s and 80s, Expansions...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: April/2025
Phil Bancroft Trio: Swings and Roundabouts
Marcello Pellitterri | Phil Bancroft | Steve Watts
A privilege of streaming your own material is the control it offers to re-visit releases that a label may delete....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2024
The Lev Gorshin Amalgamation: Klezmernova – Klezmer Meets Bossa Nova… Meets Jazz!!!
As hybrids go this is right up there. When the Getz/bossa craze hit the stratosphere in the mid-1960s a lot...
Reviewed by J. J. Geiger in issue: September/2017
Lara Jones: Ensō
This solo release has been constructed wholly on saxophonist Lara Jones' experience of travel within a period of her life...
Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: September/2020
Houston Person: Rain Or Shine
Houston Person | Lafayette Harris | Matthew Parrish | Rodney Jones | Vincent Ector | Warren Vaché
From the first few bars of the piano intro to ‘Come Rain or Come Shine’ you'll know you're in for...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2018
Chet Baker: Live In London
Chet Baker | Jim Richardson | John Horler | Tony Mann
When Baker came to London to play a week-long engagement at the much-missed Canteen venue way back in 1983, Messrs...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
Harry James: The Complete Harry James in Hi-Fi
When Capitol asked Harry James to re-record the most popular items in his back catalogue in 1955, it was ‘to...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2024
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