Reviews

Review of Wild Card: Cabin 19 Fever

Wild Card: Cabin 19 Fever

Leo Richardson | Paul Booth | Sophie Alloway | Marcus Strickland | Rosie Turton | Clément Régert | Dennis Rollins | Graeme Flowers | Snowboy | Jim Knight

Top End Records

Rating: ★★★

Party-hearty Wild Card have been a popular live attraction for a decade. Their sixth release, Cabin 19 Fever, was largely...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2023

Review of Ben Crosland: Songs of Solace and Reflection

Ben Crosland: Songs of Solace and Reflection

Deirdre Bencsik | Ben Crosland | Alan Barnes | Clare Bhabra | Steve Waterman | Theo Travis

Jazz Cat

Rating: ★★★

Huddersfield-based bassist-composer (and Jazz Cat label owner) Ben Crosland's latest release, prompted by the 2020-21 pandemic lockdown, comprises rearrangements of...

Reviewed by Jon Clay in issue: March/2023

Review of Pharoah Sanders: Live…

Pharoah Sanders: Live…

Walter Booker | Pharoah Sanders | Idris Muhammad | John Hicks

Theresa/Pure Pleasure

Rating: ★★★★

There are several notable concert recordings in the huge discography of the late Pharoah Sanders, above all the outstanding 1972...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2023

Review of Sidney De Paris, Tommy Ladnier, Lee Collins: Great Jazz, Great Trumpets

Sidney De Paris, Tommy Ladnier, Lee Collins: Great Jazz, Great Trumpets

Elmer James | Kenny Davern | Sidney De Paris | Benny Morton | Victoria Spivey | Zutty Singleton | Leonard Gaskin | Cliff Jackson | Charlie Queener | Mezz Mezzrow

Upbeat

Rating: ★★★

This eclectic compilation was first issued by Jazz Crusade as Rare Cuts, Upbeat having now acquired this American label. Sidney...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2023

Review of Jo Lawry: Acrobats

Jo Lawry: Acrobats

Linda May Han Oh | Allison Miller | Jo Lawry

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

This new album from Australian-born, NYC-based vocalist Jo Lawry is a fearless, freewheeling delight. Composed by fellow Aussie singer Gian...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2023

Review of King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50

King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50

Jamie Muir | Mel Collins | Robert Fripp | Ron Mastelotto | Adrian Belew | Tony Levin | Michael Giles | Pete Sinfield | Jeremy Stacey | Ian McDonald

Panegyric/DGM KCXP5011

Rating: ★★★★

There's a single tear at the heart of this eight-disc extravaganza. Robert Fripp, after an Everest-scaled pause allows a lone...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2023

Review of East Axis: No Subject

East Axis: No Subject

Matthew Shipp | Gerald Cleaver | Scott Robinson | Kevin Ray

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★

‘Supergroup’ can be something of a throwaway term, but this gathering has players of sufficient stature to give the description...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2023

Review of Donald Byrd: Four Classic Albums

Donald Byrd: Four Classic Albums

Philly Joe Jones | Wynton Kelly | Sam Jones | Art Taylor | Billy Higgins | Donald Byrd | Herbie Hancock | Walter Davis Jr. | Charlie Rouse | Jackie McLean

Editor's Choice

Avid

Rating: ★★★★

The title of the first of the four Blue Note albums here is apt, as Off To The Races is...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2023

Review of Dan Weiss: Dedication

Dan Weiss: Dedication

Dan Weiss | Jacob Sacks | Thomas Morgan

Editor's Choice

Cygnus Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Thinking from the groove up, and prioritising how improvisers might more often space and stretch melodies against beats more than...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: February/2023

Review of Anat Cohen: Quartetinho

Anat Cohen: Quartetinho

Tal Mashiach | James Shipp | Vitor Gonçalves | Anat Cohen

Editor's Choice

Anzic Records

Rating: ★★★

With a shared love of the Brazilian songbook serving as its aesthetic lodestar, this hugely enjoyable album from Anat Cohen's...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2023

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