Jon Cleary: GoGo Juice
A long time part of Bonnie Raitt's band, and a fine contributor to Rickie Lee Jones’ current and superb album,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2015
Bill Evans/Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: Beauty & The Beast
Bill Evans | The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra
Ah, but who is ‘Beauty’, who the ‘Beast’? Originally written for another muscular sax man, Dave Liebman, who first performed...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2017
Jim Blomfield Trio: Wave Forms and Sea Changes
Jim Blomfield | Mark Whitlam | Roshan ‘Tosh’ Wijetunge
The pianist Jim Blomfield has been a fixture on the creative music scene in Bristol since 1991, and has also...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013
Duke Ellington: Berlin 1959
In one sense, this is merely a typical Ellington concert, therefore with some moments of interest and others you’ve heard...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2021
Paul Motian: Tribute
Carlos Ward | Charlie Haden | Paul Metzke | Paul Motian | Sam Brown
A product of what I think was Manfred Eicher's second trip to New York for the purposes of recording, which...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2019
XPQ – Vasilis Xenopoulos/Nigel Price Quintet: Sidekicks
Dario Di Lecce | Nigel Price | Steve Brown | Vasilis Xenopoulos
The co-leaders work well together, their respective styles each the ideal match for the other. Price is a supple player,...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2018
Ferit Odman: Dameronia With Strings
Danny Grissett | David O’Rourke | Ferit Odman | Peter Washington | Terell Stafford
Thirty-four-year-old Odman is a new name to me, but this stalwart of the Turkish scene already has two previous CDs...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2016
Joan Mar Sauqué: Gone With The Wind
The trumpet-guitar-bass line-up inevitably recalls the Chet Baker trios of his later years, and the 25-year-old Sauqué looks recognisably soulful...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2021
Cal Tjader: Huracán
After spells with Dave Brubeck and George Shearing, vibraphonist, occasional drummer and bandleader Cal Tjader devoted himself to Latin and...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2024
Eyolf Dale: The Space Between Two Notes
Audun Kleive | Eyolf Dale | Miho Hazama | Norwegian Radio Orchestra | Per Zanussi
The title recalls the scene in The Simpsons where Lisa tells a supercilious jazz club punter, “Listen to the notes...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: December/2024
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