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
Fontanelle: Vitamin F
It's 10 years since Portland, Oregon's Fontanelle released an album, during which they've upgraded from ambient grooves to down and...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2013
Theo Travis: Songs From The Apricot Tree
Having already established himself in jazz, prog, rock and ambient music, multi-instrumentalist Theo Travis now seems to be planting his...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: September/2021
Digby Fairweather: Notes From A Jazz Life Volume 3
Volumes One and Two were reviewed in Jazzwise 251 and 269. Rather than re-visit those texts, let's look again at...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2023
Louis Armstrong: Louis & The Good Book
Here’s an oddity in a discography peppered with all manner of strange twists and turns: the defiantly secular Satchmo tackles...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: November/2023
Ray Guntrip & Tina May: Mood in Blue
Veteran pianist-composer Guntrip has evidently been a busy figure on the UK scene for many years, sometimes uniting with jazz...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2024
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
Neil Ardley: Kaleidoscope of Rainbows
This is the final part of an Ardley trilogy, preceded by two highly collectable British jazz vinyl albums, Greek Variations...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2022
Paz: Variation and Creation: The Story of Paz
Paz came into existence in 1972, having formerly been known as The Dick Crouch Band featuring Lol Coxhill.Essentially a London-based...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2025
Jim Rattigan's Pavilion: The Freedom of Movement
French horn isn't one of the quintessential jazz instruments, but Jim Rattigan is a good enough player, composer and leader...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2020
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