Barney Kessel: The Barney Kessel Story: Honey Rock 1954-1962
Here’s a good-value double-disc compendium of Barney Kessel performances largely culled from the albums issued under his name from 1954–62...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2023
André Previn and His Pals, Shelly Manne & Red Mitchell: West Side Story
André Previn | Red Mitchell | Shelly Manne
More than 65 years on from its theatre debut, it’s now difficult to grasp just how musically radical and adventurous...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2023
Avishai Cohen & Abraham Rodriguez Jr: Iroko
Abraham Rodriguez Jr | Avishai Cohen | Virginia Alves
The influential acoustic bassist-composer Avishai Cohen has been on a Latin tip ever since cutting his teeth on the 1990's...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2023
Nick Finzer: Dreams, Visions, Illusions
Alex Wintz | Dave Baron | Glenn Zalenski | Jimmy Macbride | Lucas Pino | Nick Finzer
The latest album from trombonist Nick Finzer's established sextet explores the role of the muse through a set of workman-like...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2023
Yusef Lateef: Detroit Latitude 42, Longitude 83
An ode to one of the great black music Meccas in America would, one expects, be nothing less than soulful,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2023
Tito Puente: Mambo Diablo
Maybe the oddest piece on this famous mambo album by Tito Puente (his third for Concord's Picante subsidiary) is the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2023
Chris Allard: Melodic Collective
Chris Allard | John Turville | Oli Hayhurst | Robbie Robson | Will Glaser
The clue's in the band's title as Allard releases another sophisticated, swinging and most importantly, melody-filled collection of largely his...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2023
Tenderlonious: You Know I Care
Hamish Balfour | Pete Martin | Tenderlonious | Tim Carnegie
Having followed the 2015 release of grooving nu-jazz quartet Ruby Rushton's debut Two For Joy with the P-funk/house dance-jazz synthesis...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: September/2023
Bernard Purdie: Purdie Good!
Two great drummers, two very different outcomes. Jazz was a part of New Orleans-born Idris Muhammad's upbringing early on, and...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2023
Magnus Öström: A Room For Travellers
Andreas Hourdakis | Daniel Karlsson | Magnus Öström | Thobias Babrielson
Easily the best album so far by Magnus Öström. While previous albums under his own name were perhaps guilty of...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2023
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