Reviews
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: In Concert ‘62
Freddie Hubbard | Curtis Fuller | Art Blakey | Cedar Walton | Wayne Shorter | Jymie Merritt
Booklet writer Neil Tesser argues that this was the Jazz Messengers’ strongest line-up ever, and with such stellar players, who...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2023
Matt Carter Octet: Read Between The Lines
Pianist Matt Carter comes bursting out from the Royal Academy with an impressive CV already to hand; it includes stints...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: March/2023
Brad Mehldau: Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles
Twenty-first century jazz piano icon Brad Mehldau has been investigating the best ways to interpret his own selection of cults...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2023
Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet: Warm Up: The Complete Live At The Highwayman 1965
Ian Carr | Dave Green | Trevor Tomkins | Michael Garrick | Don Rendell
A smiling Don Rendell gazes approvingly at a bearded Ian Carr, assiduously pressing the valve keys on his glistening flugelhorn...
Reviewed by Chris Welch in issue: March/2023
The Necks: Travel
Tony Buck | Chris Abrahams | Lloyd Swanton
For their 19th album Travel – their first since Three, which was released just prior to the pandemic back in...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2023
Michel Petrucciani, Gary Peacock, Roy Haynes: One Night in Karlsruhe
Roy Haynes | Michel Petrucciani | Gary Peacock
If this album, from the archives of the German radio station SWR (or Südwestrundfunk), serving the southwest of Germany, is...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2023
Kristjan Randalu & New Wind Jazz Orchestra: Sisu
The pianist-composer Kristjan Randalu is one of the better-known contemporary jazz ambassadors from the small yet open-minded jazz scene in...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2023
Gerry Mulligan: Concert Jazz Band in Concert
A matter of months after Gerry Mulligan founded his Concert Jazz Band in early 1960, it set off on its...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2023
Quincy Jones: Early Years: Six Complete Albums, 1957-61
This material is not short of reissues, and some of the six albums included here can be found on fairly...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2023
Graham Collier: Down Another Road @ Stockholm Jazz Days ’69
Harry Beckett | Stan Sulzmann | Karl Jenkins | John Marshall | Graham Collier | Nick Evans
Originally recorded for the Fontana label in March 1969, Down Another Road was notable for how Collier's compositional tapestries were...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2023
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