George Melly: Sings ‘Doom’ – The Hedonistic’50s
Alex Welsh | George Melly | His Dixielanders & Mick Mulligan's band
Here he is, the enfant terrible of British trad, caught in his early pomp as the band singer with the...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2014
Joe McPhee & Paal Nilssen-Love: Song For The Big Chief
Joe McPhee | Paal Nilssen-Love
When Joe McPhee and Paal Nilssen-Love played together on the evening of 9 December 2017 at Cafe OTO, the great...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Chippendale Gustafsson Pupillo: Melt
Brian Chippendale | Massimo Pupillo | Mats Gustafsson
There was never any doubt that this was going to be a punisher. With The Thing and Fire!, and through...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2016
Duke Ellington Orchestra: Big Bands Live
Ellington's last European tour for Norman Granz had him sharing the bill with Ella Fitzgerald, but (apart from a long-gone...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2012
Mark Egan/Danny Gottlieb: Electric Blue
On the cover, with its Rembrandt dark hues, they look the elder statesmen that they are, following half a century...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2021
Laszlo Gardony: Life in Real Time
Bill Pierce | Don Braden | John Lockwood | Laszlo Gardony | Stan Strickland | Yoron Israel
Gardony is Hungarian. He started out classically-trained, but then discovered progressive rock (the influence is sometimes still there in his...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2015
Bill Charlap Trio: And Then Again
Bill Charlap | Kenny Washington | Peter Washington
Hearing Bill Charlap in the flesh is a great experience. He seems to be doing very little but what pours...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2024
Gary Bartz & Maisha: Night Dreamer Direct-To-Disc Sessions
Al MacSween | Axel Kaner-Lidstrom | Gary Bartz | Jake Long | Shirley Tetteh | Tim Doyle | Twm Dylan
Ever since his headline slot at We Out Here Festival last summer, US sax great Gary Bartz had been enjoying...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: May/2020
Andrea Brachfeld: Brazilian Whispers
Antonio Carlos ‘Tom’ Jobim is the gift that keeps on giving – and where the flautist Brachfeld is concerned, his...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2020
Fervour: Taking Flight
Andy Bunting | Ben Lee | Euan Palmer | Nick Jurd | Sean Gibbs
Fervour is a quintet led by the 24-yearold London-based Edinburgh-born trumpeter Sean Gibbs, a fairly recent graduate from Birmingham conservatoire....
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018
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