Cafecito: El Gato

A Reading-based Buena Vista style band directed by pianist Janet Sherbourne that favours a chamber-lite pre-salsa charanga as well as...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

Ran Blake/Christine Correa: Down Here Below

Christine Correa | Ran Blake

This came as a pleasant surprise to me, having been unaware of at least two previous collaborations between Blake and...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2012

Katharina Weber, Barry Guy, Balts Nill: Games and Improvisations Hommage à György Kurtág

Barry Guy | Balts Nill | Katharina Weber

I began to get this record on a fourth or fifth listen. What had at first sounded fragmented, brittle and...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: July/2012

Frank Gambale (featuring Boca): Soulmine

A husband-wife songwriting team, the Australian Chick Corea fusion guitarist and Toronto vocalist wife Boca, team up for a mainstream...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

The Nicki Allan Sextet: You're Gonna Hear From Me

Adrian Knowles | Ronnie Bottomley | Mark Chandler | Joel Purnell | Nicki Allan | Graham Hearn

Vocalist Nicki Allan somehow manages to squeeze in time for her jazz sextet in between her roles as a senior...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2012

Mina Agossi: Red Eyes

Stephane Guéry | Sue Richardson | Eric Jacot | Phil Reptil | Mina Agossi | Archie Shepp | Ichiro Onoe

As pleasingly idiosyncratic as ever, vocalist Mina Agossi has always fished in the slightly more offbeat byways of jazz, and...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2012

Shorty Rogers: The Swinging Mr Rogers

The best and most famous session by the ‘Giants’ quintet with Jimmy Giuffre's feathery clarinet and Shelly Manne's exquisite drumming...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2012

Dominic Miller: 5th House

Pino Palladino | Cuong Vu | Dominic Miller | Rhani Krija | Jimmy Johnson | Yaron Herman | Vinnie Colaiuta | Nicolas Fiszman

Miller's best and rightly known for his contribution to Sting's band. His nylon string style is immediately identifiable, and has...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2012

Cannonball Adderley: Know What I Mean?

Shelly Manne | Percy Heath | Bill Evans | Paul Motian | Connie Kay | Cannonball Adderley | Scott LaFaro

Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley wasn't the first jazz player to be confronted with the realisation that success can be a double...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2019

Fripp, Keeling, Singleton: The Wine Of Silence

Andrew Keeling | Robert Fripp | Metropole Orkest | David Singleton | Jan Stulen

The Emperor's New Clothes or a touch of genius? As with many Fripp-related projects, the two are not mutually exclusive....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2012