Joe McPhee/John Butcher: At The Hill Of James Magee
Drawing parallels between music and the environment in which it is made can sometimes be inappropriate. But ‘The Hill’ in...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2019
Eric Dolphy: Berlin Concerts
Benny Bailey | Buster Smith | Eric Dolphy | George Joyner | Pepsi Auer
Only issued for the first time in 1990, this is actually the earliest evidence of Dolphy’s brief 1961 visit to...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2018
Oscar Peterson: Plays The Cole Porter Songbook
Alvin Stoller | Barney Kessel | Ed Thigpen | Herb Ellis | Oscar Peterson | Ray Brown
This is a typically well-researched and intelligently assembled compilation from the people who process their productions through Andorra. It leads...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2022
Daniele Cavallanti and the Brotherhood Creative Trance Music Ensemble: Faces and Tales
Some people like to play it straight and keep things simple. Not so the Italian saxophonist Daniele Cavallanti, who, to...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2014
Matt Anderson Quartet: Rambling
Aubin Vanns | Jay Davis | Matt Anderson | Nick Malcolm | Owen Dawson | Peter Lee | Will Harris
Young saxophonist Matt Anderson won the Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition in 2017 and you can hear why. The writing...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: August/2018
Henri Texier: Sand Woman
Gautier Garrigue | Henri Texier | Manu Codjia | Sebastien Texier | Vincent Le Quang
The iconic French double-bassist Henri Texier has never been one for looking back, but on the new recording Sand Woman...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2018
Sonny Stitt: The Sensual Sound of Sonny Stitt/And the Top Brass
Though compared with Charlie Parker more frequently than he liked, Sonny Stitt nevertheless acknowledged their similarities, as testified by his...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: November/2013
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Mauch Chunk
Jon Irabagon | Kevin Shea | Moppa Elliott | Ron Stabinsky
Last year's MOPDTK album release Blue, a curious note-fornote transcription of Miles' Kind of Blue, had critics and punters furiously...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015
King Crimson: Audio Diary 2014-2018
When else could this review be written but 10 October 2019, the 50th anniversary of the release of In The...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
John Stevens' Away: Away/Somewhere In Between/Mazin Ennit
Last year's John Stevens day at the South Bank during the EFG London Jazz Festival barely scratched the surface of...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2015
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