John Zorn: Cerberus – The Book Of Angels Volume 26: The Spike Orchestra Plays Masada Book 2
John Zorn’s Masada project is a complex idea that could refer to a number of different facets: on one level,...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2016
Bobby Hackett & Zoot Sims: Complete Recordings/Strike Up The Band
Not all leads stem from Dizzy Gillespie. Pre-bop there was a plethora of truly inspired trumpet players whose achievements are...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2015
Joe Pass Quartet & Septet: Walking Up
Joe Pass made it sound as though the hard labour he put in as a child learning the guitar at...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2017
Stuart McCallum: Distilled Live
Stuart McCallum is best known as the guitarist with ambient masters the Cinematic Orchestra. McCallum as a leader sculpts similarly...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2013
Chet Baker: Chet Sings!
Perhaps for far too long Chet Baker the crooner has received a bad press. The fact that he played this...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: August/2013
New Jazz Orchestra: Le Déjeuner Sur L'herbe
Details are murky but the Internet seems to suggest unspecified ‘legal reasons’ for why this classic of 1960s Brit-jazz has...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2013
Martin Archer: Anthropology Band
A nothing if not ambitious project in which Archer’s compositions are played through by a septet, then re-visited by a...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2020
Mike Gibbs Band: Symphony Hall, Birmingham 1991
Mike Gibbs celebrated his 80th birthday with two nights at the Vortex in September of last year directing a largely...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018
Buddy Rich: Birdland
What we have here is the old shedbuilder's mid-1970s aggregation privately recorded on location by sax man Alan Gauvin. It's...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2015
The Warriors of The Wonderful Sound: Soundpath
The late and much-missed pianist and AACM (the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) co-founder Muhal Richard Abrams inspired...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2021
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