Chaos Orchestra: Island Mentality
If there's one thing the trumpeter Laura Jurd's Chaos Orchestra doesn't have, it's an island mentality, the title she's given...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2014
Connee Boswell: Concentratin’ on You
The Boswell sisters grew up in New Orleans and formed a close-harmony vocal trio which gained international renown, recording often...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2021
King Kolax: Those Rhythm and Blues
Trumpeter/bandleader William Little (1912-1991) – aka King Kolax –earned his place in jazz history based on his early experience in...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2024
Annie Ross/Christopher Logue/Tony Kinsey Quintet: Loguerhythms – Songs From The Establishment
The rating here is specifically for those tracks that features La Ross hand-in-glove with Tony Kinsey's vibrant Quintet interpreting charts...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2014
Alex Cline's Flower Garden Orchestra: Oceans Of Vows
Nels Cline's lightning-storm guitar soloing in one of America's finest rock bands, Wilco, has seen his renown eclipse that of...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2017
Ryan Truesdell: Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans
A fascinating project that exhumes previously unrecorded scores by Evans, for a top-ranking New York personnel. Five of them were...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012
Fat-Suit: Atlas
As a late-night Glasgow Jazz Festival fixture, Fat-Suit seemed a simple enough proposition at first: a funk big band, built...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: October/2016
Harmonie Ensemble/New York: The Nutcracker Suites
‘The Nutcracker’ is far from my favourite Ellingtonia but, then, apparently the Tchaikovsky original wasn't his own favourite either. Perhaps...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Sun Ra: Refections In Blue/Hours After/Mayan Temples/A Tribute To Stuff Smith
Interspersed with such alien sound attacks as ‘Prelude To Stargazers’, ‘Dance Of The Extra Terrestrials’ and a truly hypnotic ‘I...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: February/2015
George Duke: No Rhyme, No Reason: The Elektra/Warner Years 1985-2000
That long list of vocalists is the giveaway. This bumper 3-CD, three-hour-plus release draws on nine albums over 15 years,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2022
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