Reviews

Review of Jimmy Giuffre: Western Suite

Jimmy Giuffre: Western Suite

Jim Hall | Bob Brookmeyer | Jimmy Giuffre

Atlantic/Pure Pleasure

Rating: ★★★★

South London's Pure Pleasure label has, for years now, been doing jazz lovers a massive service with its (often) all-analogue...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2023

Review of Eyolf Dale: The Wayfarers

Eyolf Dale: The Wayfarers

Audun Kleive | Per Zanussi | Eyolf Dale

Edition

Rating: ★★★★

It may be rather premature to call Eyolf Dale's trio a ‘supergroup’, but bassist Per Zannusi and drummer Audun Kleive...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2023

Review of Alati: Ascending the Morning

Alati: Ascending the Morning

Brigitte Beraha | Chris Dowding | Dave O'Brien

33 Records/Singular Publishing

Rating: ★★★★

A package which initially appears modest, yet is most generous in spirit. Dowding has previously set the poetry of Arthur...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2023

Review of Raul De Souza: 3 Classic Albums: Sweet Lucy/Til Tomorrow Comes/Don't Ask My Neighbours

Raul De Souza: 3 Classic Albums: Sweet Lucy/Til Tomorrow Comes/Don't Ask My Neighbours

Raul De Douza | Bonita Wilson | Sybil Thomas | Harvey Mason | Victoria Miles | Roland Bautista | Airto | George Duke | Lynn Davis | Robert Pops Popwell

Robinsongs

Rating: ★★★

A highly respected figure in his native Brazil, the late trombonist Raul De Souza will most likely be on the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2023

Review of Joe Turner: The Boss Of The Blues: Joe Turner Sings Kansas City Jazz

Joe Turner: The Boss Of The Blues: Joe Turner Sings Kansas City Jazz

Joe Newman | Joe Turner | Freddie Green | Pete Brown | Walter Page | Lawrence Brown | Cliff Leeman | Pete Johnson | Jimmy Nottingham | Frank Wess

Atlantic/Pure Pleasure

Rating: ★★★★

South London's Pure Pleasure label has, for years now, been doing jazz lovers a massive service with its (often) all-analogue...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2023

Review of The Fresh Sound Ensemble: Common Threads

The Fresh Sound Ensemble: Common Threads

Ronan Perrett | John Turville | Michael Chillingworth | Adele Sauros | Steve Fishwick | Alex Hitchcock | Sam Braysher | Alex Merritt | Jay Davis | Conor Chaplin

Fresh Sound New Talent

Rating: ★★★

After launching the likes of Ambrose Akinmusire, Robert Glasper and Kris Davis onto the international scene, the Spanish label Fresh...

Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: March/2023

Review of Alessio Menconi/Nigel Price Quartet: Live at Peggy's Skylight

Alessio Menconi/Nigel Price Quartet: Live at Peggy's Skylight

Nigel Price | Louis Stringer | Joel Barford | Alessio Menconi

Nervy Nigel Records

Rating: ★★★★

The label is Price's own and, on this showing, he has little need to be nervous. As ever, he relishes...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2023

Review of Dave Brubeck Quartet: Debut in the Netherlands 1958

Dave Brubeck Quartet: Debut in the Netherlands 1958

Paul Desmond | Joe Morello | Dave Brubeck | Gene Wright

Editor's Choice

The Lost Recordings TLP

Rating: ★★★★

The year 1958 was a big one for the Dave Brubeck Quartet. A tour of Europe was immediately followed by...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2023

Review of The Piano Choir: Handscapes 2

The Piano Choir: Handscapes 2

Mtume | John Lewis | Sonelius Smith | Stanley Cowell | Webster Lewis | Hugh Lawson | Nat Jones | Ron Burton | Jimmy Hopps | Harold Mabern

Strata East/Pure Pleasure

Rating: ★★★

Of all the albums that the groundbreaking independent label Strata East released in the 1970s, this was arguably the most...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2023

Review of Asha Parkinson's Kalpadruma: Onwards

Asha Parkinson's Kalpadruma: Onwards

Simeon May | Elsa Hackett | Ben Crane | Tristan Butler | Joe Parks | Eliza Oakes | Serguei Gonzalez Pavolva | Konstantinos Glynos | Asha Parkinson | Harry Pearce

Self-release

Rating: ★★★

And the talent keeps coming. Asha Parkinson's credentials are impressive: a stalwart of NYJO, a first-class degree from Guildhall, teachers...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2023

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