Album Interview: Charles Lloyd And Maria Farantouri: Athens Concert
This must have been one hell of a night. How rarely does the atmosphere at a concert come over as...
Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: October/2011
Album Interview: Erik Truffaz Quartet: El Tiempo de la Revolución
Anna Aaron | Benoît Corboz | Erik Truffaz | Marc Erbetta | Marcello Giuliani
With over 15 Blue Notes now to his name, the French-Swiss trumpeter Erik Truffaz' discography has been as patchy as...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2013
Charlie Parker: The Complete Royal Roost Broadcasts
Were it not for dedicated night owls such as Dean Benedetti and Boris Rose then whole crucial swathes of jazz...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2013
Woody Shaw Quintet: Basel 1980
The history books like to have us believe that, until the arrival of Wynton Marsalis and co. in the early...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: August/2019
Courtney Pine: House of Legends
Unquestionably one of the most joyous albums Pine has ever made, this is music to be listened to on several...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2012
Dexter Gordon/Slide Hampton: A Day In Copenhagen
How good it is to have this album in circulation again! Never the best-known of records, it’s probably Gordon’s finest...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2022
Gerry Mulligan/Art Farmer: Gerry Mulligan & Art Farmer
This Gerry Mulligan Quartet was a very different beast to its earlier, and more celebrated, Chet Baker-featured incarnation. For one...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2020
Monty Alexander: The Montreux Years
Opening with a stunning 1995 solo performance of Alexander's original ‘The Serpent’, there's immediately no doubt that this latest Montreux...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2023
Bill Frisell: Valentine
This might be their recording debut as a trio, but this threesome has toured hard for the last two years....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2020
Dave Liebman: Fire
Dave Holland | Dave Liebman | Jack DeJohnette | Kenny Werner
This album makes it impossible not to circle around the well-used cliché about how the texture, taste and bouquet of...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2018
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