Marc Cary: For the Love of Abbey

Marc Cary

The soulful pianist Marc Cary is a long time New York resident who has worked with everyone from high-level American...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Michael Dease: Coming Home

This 30-year-old Wycliffe Gordon-mentored ’bonist has a quintet of Christian McBride (Dease plays in his big band), performing a post-bop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2018

Barbara Morrison: A Sunday Kind of Love

A west coast charismatic veteran big band singer’s debut on the east coast’s Savant label leans heavily on her R&B...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

The 208 Rhythm Club Vol.4: Alex Welsh & His Band

Archie Semple | Alex Welsh | Roy Crimmins | Billy Reid | Lennie Hastings | Terry Pitt | Fred Hunt

Vocalion have lately come across a cache of Radio Luxembourg 208 broadcasts that aired in 1961 and 1962, which just...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2013

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Michael Bisio/William Parker/Gerald Cleaver: Serendipity

Mathew Shipp | Ivo Perelman

Ivo Perelman’s name is the first on each disc but the other musicians in his two quartets and duet stand...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2013

Brian Kellock/Cathrine Legardh: Love Still Wears a Smile

The strongly admired Scottish pianist accompanies a rhythmically astute, expressive Danish jazz singer in an interesting duo set on carefully...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Philip Catherine: Côté Jardin

Now 70 years old, this London-born Belgian fusion guitar legend recruits a young quartet and demonstrates too his warm lyricism...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2013

Basquiat Strings: Part Two

Richard Pryce | Dave Smith | Jennymay Logan | Ben Davis | Seb Rochford | Amanda Drummond | Vicky Fifield | Emma Smith

I saw Basquiat Strings at Bexhill’s De La Warr Pavilion in 2008, not long after they were nominated for the...

Reviewed by Marcus O’Dair in issue: July/2013

Archie Shepp and Bill Dixon: Quartet

Although this is billed as a Shepp-Dixon release it is a welcome overview of some of the important sessions that...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Sammy Price: Three Classic Albums Plus

Boogie and blues specialist Price led some fine sessions, the highlights here being his sextet’s collaboration with Sidney Bechet, plus...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019