Reviews

Review of Emily Remler: Cookin’ at the Queens: Live in Las Vegas 1984 & 1988

Emily Remler: Cookin’ at the Queens: Live in Las Vegas 1984 & 1988

Carson Smith | Tom Montgomery | Emily Remler | Cocho Arbe | Tom Pisci

Editor's Choice

Resonance

Here’s a handsome package honouring Remler in her prime. Just two or so years after her stunning debut Firefly, which...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Sun Ra: Lights On A Satellite: Live At The Left Bank

Sun Ra: Lights On A Satellite: Live At The Left Bank

the Jingle Brothers | Danny Davis | Eloe Omoe | June Tyson | Sun Ra | Michael Ray | Marshall Allen | Richard Williams | James Jacson | Damon Choice

Resonance

Rating: ★★★★

Confusingly, Resonance Records have decided to give their latest collection of Sun Ra recordings virtually the same title as the...

Reviewed in issue December/2024

Review of Sonny Rollins: Freedom Weaver (The 1959 European Tour Recordings)

Sonny Rollins: Freedom Weaver (The 1959 European Tour Recordings)

Kenny Clarke | Sonny Rollins | Henry Gimes | Joe Harris | Pete LaRoca

Editor's Choice

Resonance

Rating: ★★★★

In one of the short interviews included in these engrossing live recordings (mostly in Sweden, but also West Germany, France,...

Reviewed in issue September/2024

Review of Art Tatum: Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings

Art Tatum: Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings

Slam Stewart | Everett Barksdale | Art Tatum

Editor's Choice

Resonance

Rating: ★★★★

According to his biographer James Lester, it was around the time of this recording that Tatum heard from his doctor...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Review of Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly: Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings

Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly: Maximum Swing: The Unissued 1965 Half Note Recordings

Paul Chambers Pierre Michelot | Wynton Kelly | Larry Ridley | Jimmy Cobb | Wes Montgomery | Ron Carter

Resonance

Rating: ★★★★★

Prior to the release of this remarkable discovery of 17 unissued 1965 Half Note recordings by Wes Montgomery and the...

Reviewed in issue December/January/2023/2024

Review of Ivan Lins: My Heart Speaks

Ivan Lins: My Heart Speaks

Randy Brecker | Tibilisi Symphony Orchestra | Leo Amuedo | Josh Nelson | Twanda | Carltos Del Puerto | Jane Monheit | Ivan Lins | Mauriico Zottarelli | Dianne Reeves

Editor's Choice

Resonance

Rating: ★★★★

The album title, My Heart Speaks, is taken from the Lins composition, ‘The Heart Speaks,’ and was recorded on an...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Review of Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller: In Harmony

Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller: In Harmony

Roy Hargrove

Editor's Choice

Resonance

Rating: ★★★★

Though the selling point is perhaps that both Hargrove and Miller departed well before their time (Roy in 2018 aged...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Review of Bill Evans: Live at Ronnie Scott’s

Bill Evans: Live at Ronnie Scott’s

Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez | Jack DeJohnette

Resonance

Rating: ★★★★

Jack DeJohnette's six-month tenure as a member of the Bill Evans Trio – he left to heed the call of...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of Sonny Rollins: Rollins In Holland

Sonny Rollins: Rollins In Holland

Sonny Rollins | Han Bennink | Ruud Jacobs

Resonance

Rating: ★★★★

The colossus has been forced to hang up his horn, but there could be not better way to celebrate his...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Review of Bob James: Once Upon A Time: The Lost 1965 New York Studio Sessions

Bob James: Once Upon A Time: The Lost 1965 New York Studio Sessions

Bob James

Resonance

Rating: ★★★★

This reviewer has been fairly well insulated from Bob James, apart from the inevitable ‘Angela/Theme From Taxi’ and his very...

Reviewed in issue October/2020

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