David Binney: Tomorrow’s Journey
Alto saxophonist-composer David Binney is also an in-demand producer and runs his own record label Mythology. Over a prolific recording...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2022
Jonny Mansfield: The Air In Front Of You
Dominic Ingham | James Maddren | Jonny Mansfield | Midori Jaeger | Will Sach
Jonny Mansfield doesn’t let the grass grow under his feet - not content with learning to play the...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: July/2023
Art Farmer: Portrait of Art Farmer
Addison Farmer | Art Farmer | Hank Jones | Roy Haynes
Although he’d honed his bop chops with the likes of Wardell Gray and Dexter Gordon, served time in the R&B...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: May/2024
Sonny Rollins: Freedom Weaver (The 1959 European Tour Recordings)
Henry Gimes | Joe Harris | Kenny Clarke | Pete LaRoca | Sonny Rollins
In one of the short interviews included in these engrossing live recordings (mostly in Sweden, but also West Germany, France,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2024
Darwish: Reclamation
Ben Somers | Darwish | Hamish Balfour | Wes Gibbens | Yazz Ahmed
There might well be lively debate on where this album belongs on the genre exchequer. To all intents and purposes...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2018
Chet Baker: It Could Happen To You: Chet Baker Sings
These landmark 1950s Riverside albums have been issued, reissued, mastered and remastered, and packaged and repackaged countless times over the...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2021
Jim Snidero: Strings
Strings was first issued on Milestone (MCD 9326 2) two decades ago. Its reappearance now is welcome in that it...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2022
Kenny Barron/Dave Holland Trio: Without Deception
Dave Holland | Johnathan Blake | Kenny Barron
Effortless mainstream jazz eloquence has been pianist Kenny Barron’s calling card for 40 years. Without Deception renews the pianist’s dialogue...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2020
Digby Fairweather & Friends: To Frederick With Affection
Chris Gower | Digby Fairweather | Dominic Ashworth | Julian Marc Stringle | Len Skeat | Neil Bullock
The ever-enterprising Fairweather always seems to be on the lookout for fresh fields to conquer. And he usually succeeds. Here...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2013
Betty Carter: The Audience With Betty Carter
Betty Carter | Curtis Lundy | John Hicks | Kenny Washington
A feature on Betty Carter in the Village Voice in the late 1970s feared she might die an unknown genius...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2019
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