Nigel Aubrey Thomas: Restless Soul
Bassist Thomas, a stalwart of the Sussex and wider UK scenes who has released two albums as a jazz bandleader,...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2023
Archie Shepp: Live at the Panafrican Festival
Held in July 1969 in the city of Algiers, the inaugural Panafrican Cultural Festival was a melting-pot event that was...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2025
Sun Ra Arkestra: Living Sky
It’s hard to put one’s finger on exactly what makes the Arkestra sound so ineffably cosmic. This new collection of...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2022
New Jazz Orchestra/Neil Ardley Group: BBC Sessions 1968-1970
Neil Ardley would have been pleasantly surprised with the emergence of work that he thought had disappeared into the ether...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2024
Album Interview: Nat Birchall: World Without Form
Adam Fairhall | Andy Hay | Corey Mwamba | Jon Thorne | Nat Birchall | Nick Blacka | Paul Hession
Birchall's follow-up to last year's excellent Sacred Dimension finds him further pursuing his heartfelt devotion to the spirit and sound...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2012
Strictly Smokin’ Big Band: Strictly Smokin’ & Friends
North-East based trumpeter Lamb founded the Strictly Smokin’ Big Band in 2004 (see story in Jazzwise 295) and has kept...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2024
Coleman Hawkins/Clark Terry: Back In Bean's Bag
To my knowledge this is the first time these two great artists recorded together. Fortunately, it proved to be a...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2016
West Hill Blast Quartet: Live At Cafe Oto
Although they draw on the vocabulary of free jazz, these four musicians are only, to varying degrees, free jazz musicians...
Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: April/2016
Jon Regen: Satisfied Mind
“I called the album Satisfied Mind because it's the first time a collection of songs truly sounds like me”, New...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2023
Charenee Wade: Offering: The Music Of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson
Not for nothing did Christian McBride recently describe singer Wade as “the second coming of Betty Carter”. Hearing the master...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2015
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