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
Bill Mays Trio: Live At COTA
Bill Mays | Martin Wind | Matt Wilson
Like his near-contemporary Alan Broadbent, or from an earlier generation Clare Fischer, New York-based Mays' reputation as a composer-arranger makes...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2019
Charlie Parker: Five Classic Albums
The second half of Parker’s studio output was all done for Norman Granz, including the famous Afro-Latin sessions that are...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2020
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