Reviews
Oscar Peterson: On a Clear Day
Louis Hayes | Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen | Oscar Peterson
This particular version of the Peterson trio was not together for very long. It followed the departure of George Mraz...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2023
Roy Eldridge/Ella Fitzgerald: In Concert
Roy Eldridge | Ella Fitzgerald | Herb Ellis | Gus Johnson | Wilfred Middlebrooks | Lou Levy
In between Jazz at the Philharmonic dates in early 1959, Norman Granz sent out a slimmed-down package of Ella Fitzgerald...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2023
Yuji Takahashi/Sabu Toyozumi: The Quietly Clouds And A Wild Crane
Yuji Takahashi | Sabu Toyozumi
This latest batch of releases from Lithuanian label NoBusiness (as part of their ongoing partnership with Japanese imprint Chap Chap)...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2023
Falkner Evans: Through the Lens
"When Linda was still here, I would be playing in the living room and she would ask, 'What is that?’,"...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2023
Jan Harbeck Quartet: Balanced
Henrik Gunde | Eliel Lazo | Eske Nørrelykke | Anders Holm | Jan Harbeck
A new name to me, Danish tenorist Harbeck (born 1975) has a nicely husky tenor style, momentarily reminiscent of Ben...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2023
Rob Mazurek – Exploding Star Orchestra: Lightning Dreamers
Since its debut release, 2007's We Are All from Somewhere Else, Exploding Star Orchestra's ever-shifting personnel has mostly hovered around...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2023
Tyler Mitchell Octet: Sun Ra's Journey featuring Marshall Allen
Bassist Tyler Mitchell was a member of Sun Ra's Arkestra in the mid-1980s and has been a key player in...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2023
Lovey's Original Trinidad String Band: Encore “Lovey”! The Historic Trinidad String Band Recordings 1912 and 1914
George Robertson Lovelace Baillie | various personnel
This is historic music in every sense of the term. These priceless recordings take us back to the dawn of...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2023
Rymden and Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra (Kork): Rymden + Kork
This is the third Rymden album after their debut, Reflections & Oddysseys, and follow-up Space Sailors plus some seven EPs...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2023
John Pizzarelli: Stage & Screen
John Pizzarelli | Isaiah J Thompson | Mike Karn
“In thinking about some of the songs that I really love to play, it struck me how many of them...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2023
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