Natsuki Tamura: Summer Tree
Another implacably engaging bulletin by trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and Satoko Fujii, the formerly Paul Bley-mentored virtuoso pianist (though on this...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2022
Antonio Sanchez: Bad Hombre
Antonio Sanchez first made his name as a long-serving sideman of the Pat Metheny group. Though he’s been fairly recently...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018
Sun of Goldfinger: Congratulations to You
The congratulations of the title is surely a tribute to Sun of Goldfinger's decade-long anniversary as this is a ‘live’...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2020
Salif Keita: Talé
World music purists have been up in arms about this latest effort from Malian superstar singer Salif Keita, nicknamed the...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2013
Julie Sassoon Quartet: Voyages
Julie Sassoon | Lothar Ohlmeier | Meinrad Kneer | Rudi Fischerlehner
Julie Sassoon's European quartet certainly sounds like a postbop-to-free jazz band in its piano/horn/rhythm instrumentation, the punch of its ensemble-playing,...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2022
Flook Pennnington and His Red Hoteroonie: Still Stompin’
Flook Pennington | Jacques Musteron | Louis Gabardine | Willie Gussette
Let's say straight up that Flook Pennington was no Buddy Bolden. He was a white door-to-door salesman from Bismarck, North...
Reviewed by J. J. Geiger in issue: June/2018
Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith: 100 Classic Recordings 1925-53
Bowler-hatted, cigar-chomping, the Harlem stride pianist and composer Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith – the nickname came from his prowess as...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2022
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks
Following the deluxe edition of Moondance from Warner in 2013, both Astral Weeks and His Band And The Street Choir...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016
Christian Kobi: Atta!
Christian Kobi | Taku Sugimoto | Wakana Ikeda | Yoko Ikeda
Swiss saxophonist Christian Kobi is a supremely focused improviser and no surprise, perhaps, to find him associating with a group...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: March/2018
Barb Jungr: Hard Rain – The Songs of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen
Released on her own Kristalyn Records label, Hard Rain brings together 11 classic songs from the Dylan/Cohen songbooks. Investing everything...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2014
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