Martin Speake/Colin Oxley: Two Not One

Colin Oxley | Martin Speake

Since the 1990s alto saxophonist Martin Speake has explored puretoned cool school aesthetics through to more bluesy Ornette-infl uenced settings....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Cannonball Adderley: Somethin’ Else: The Stereo and Mono Versions

Art Blakey | Bill Evans | Cannonball Adderley | Hank Jones | Jimmy Cobb | John Coltrane | Miles Davis | Paul Chambers | Sam Jones

Fresh from their success in selling two versions of Blues And The Abstract Truth (see Jazzwise 228), the reissue producers...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2020

Uli Beckerhoff: Heroes

This veteran German trumpeter demonstrates his resourcefulness and depth of tone in a quartet CD dedicated to the heroes of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015

O'Higgins & Luft: Pluto

Dave O'Higgins | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Rob Luft | Rod Youngs | Ross Stanley

Three years ago the O'Higgins/Luft alliance mined a rich vein covering the songs of Coltrane and Monk on the appropriately...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023

Atomic: Lucidity

Fredrik Ljungkvist | Hans Hulboekmo | Håvard Wiik | Ingebrigt Håker Flaten | Magnus Broo

Active since the turn of the millennium, Atomic are a Norwegian quintet with an aesthetic that draws as much on...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2015

WorldService Project: Serve

Arthur O'Hara | Dave Morecroft | Harry Pope | Raphael Clarkson | Tim Ower

Co-produced by Liran Donin of punk-jazz fellow-travellers Led Bib, WorldService Project's fourth album is concerned with psychology and politics as...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: July/2018

Chris Hodgkins International Quartet: Festooned With Trumpets

Alison Rayner | Chris Hodgkins | Jinjoo Yoo | Wayne Wilkinson

As previously reported, Hodgkins, once released from exigencies of administration, rekindled his desire to play with both his special tribute...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2022

Dizzy Gillespie: The Greatest Trumpet Of Them All

Benny Golson | Charli Persip | Coleman Hawkins | Dizzy Gillespie | Gigi Gryce | Gus Johnson | Henry Coker | Herb Ellis | Oscar Peterson | Pee Wee Moore

A curious choice for the designation of American Jazz Classics, even if it is nice to see all of the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2014

Josh Lawrence: Color Theory

Adam Faulk | Anwar Marshall | Brent White | Caleb Curtis | Josh Lawrence | Madison Rast | Orrin Evans

Lawrence is an extremely able trumpeter and composer/arranger. He is an important sideman in Orrin Evans' Captain Black Big Band,...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2017

Kenny Werner: Me, Myself & I

Kenny Werner

A live club date from last year's Montréal Jazz Festival, this reminds me in some ways of the Werner solo...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012