Reviews
Johnny Hammond: Gears
Christmas has come early for jazz-funk fans in the shape of this superb reissue of a long-unavailable classic of the...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Steve Lacy & Evan Parker: Chirps
A very welcome reissue of a soprano sax duo recording originally released in 1985 on the legendary FMP Records that,...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Trio D’Été: Turning Point
Eric Harland | Matt Brewer | Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba has long pulled different strands of the world's music into thrilling, technically astute coherence. Steeped in Latin...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Four Classic Albums
The four named albums (Hard Bop, Drum Suite, Impulse!!! and Caravan), emanate from a period when Blakey and company were...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Ezra Collective: Where I’m Meant To Be
Femi Koleoso | Ife Ogunjobi | TJ Koleoso | James Mollison | Joe Armon-Jones
The Londoners continue to shirk labels as they tunnel further into acoustic dance music on their second album. Having ridden...
Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Laura Jurd: The Big Friendly Album
Writing happy music isn't that novel, but it's a darn sight harder than it looks. Jurd's fourth solo outing, The...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Sean Gibbs: Confluence
Edinburgh-born, London-based trumpeter Sean Gibbs drew some glowing reviews when he released his debut quintet album, When Can I See...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Henry Lowther's Quarternity: Never Never Land
Trevor Tomkins | Phil Lee | Art Themen | Alan Wakeman | Henry Lowther | Dave Green Chris Laurence
Quaternity may very well be the British modern jazz group that you’ve never heard of or is that just me?...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Theo Croker Quartet with Mitglieder der Berliner Philharmoniker: Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XII: Sketches of Miles
Sketches of Miles is exactly that. Loving recreations of the sacred cows of the Miles Davis canon – including ‘Pinocchio/Milestones,’...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Steve Smith and Vital Information: The Complete Columbia Recordings
Smith could hardly have predicted the longevity of Vital Information when Columbia signed him as a solo artist after he’d...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
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