Review of Adam Schroeder: Let's

Adam Schroeder: Let's

Adam Schroeder | Anthony Wilson | Jeff Hamilton | John Clayton

Capri

Rating: ★★★

In days gone by, swing bands had breakout small groups. Think the Benny Goodman Quartet, for instance. Well, this foursome...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2014

Review of Joe McPhee & Raymond Boni: Live From The Magic City

Joe McPhee & Raymond Boni: Live From The Magic City

Joe McPhee | Raymond Boni

Trost Records

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded six years apart, here's Joe McPhee in two radically different performance situations. With French saxophonist André Jaume he reinvents...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: March/2017

Review of Chris Garrick and John Etheridge: WTWSFS

Chris Garrick and John Etheridge: WTWSFS

Chris Garrick | John Etheridge | Liane Carroll

Flying Blue Whale Records

Rating: ★★★★

You will hear hipper, more radical and certainly louder releases this year. But if you’re wise enough to buy this...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2013

Review of Mike Westbrook: Live 1972

Mike Westbrook: Live 1972

Alan Jackson | Butch Potter | Gary Boyle | George Khan | Mike Westbrook

Hux

Rating: ★★

Nearly 50 years on, Marching Song remains a seminal recording not only of the ‘Jazz Britannia’ era, but of any...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2017

Review of Connie Han: Iron Starlet

Connie Han: Iron Starlet

Bill Wysake | Connie Han | Ivan Taylor | Jeremy Pelt | Walter Smith III

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★

Going by just appearance, you might mistake the 24-year old pianist Connie Han for a glamorous female classical crossover artist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020

Review of Oddarrang: Hypermetros

Oddarrang: Hypermetros

Ilari Pohjola | Lasse Lindgren | Lasse Sakara | Olavi Louhivuori | Osmo Ikonen

Edition

Rating: ★★★

This is Oddarrang's fifth album since their debut, Cathedral, on the Finnish Texacali label in 2009. Since then, their personnel...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2019

Review of Ernestine Anderson: The Complete 1947 -1958

Ernestine Anderson: The Complete 1947 -1958

Ernestine Anderson

Le Chant du Monde

Rating: ★★★★

Featuring just under two hours of Ernestine Anderson's exquisite phrasing and remarkably sustained melodic lines, this superb 2-CD set is...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Review of Pat Martino: Formidable

Pat Martino: Formidable

Adam Niewood | Alex Norris | Carmen Intore Jr | Pat Bianchi | Pat Martino

HighNote

Rating: ★★★

Martino came up through R&B bands, working often with star organists and he’s at it again here. Bianchi lays down...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2018

Review of Enrico Pieranunzi: The Copenhagen Concert

Enrico Pieranunzi: The Copenhagen Concert

Enrico Pieranunzi | Marc Johnson | Paul Motian

Storyville

Rating: ★★★

Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi – veteran of projects with the likes of Ennio Morricone, Chet Baker and Art Farmer –...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2020

Review of Brian Lynch: Unsung Heroes Vol. 2

Brian Lynch: Unsung Heroes Vol. 2

Alex Hoffman | Brian Lynch | David Wong | Pete Van Nostrand | Rob Schneiderman | Vincent Herring

Hollistic Music Works

Rating: ★★★

Best known for his latin jazz work with the likes of Eddie Palmieri, Brian Lynch comes up with another of...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2014

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