Reviews
Let Spin: Thick As Thieves
Ruth Goller | Finlay Panter | Chris Williams | Moss Freed
It's impressive that, after 10 years as a project, Let Spin are still finding fresh ways to develop their ideas...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Deelee Dubé: Trying Times
Mark Whitfield Jr | Russell Malone | Benito Gonzalez | Deelee Dubé | Corcoran Holt
Vocalist Deelee Dubé made history when she became the first British winner of the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2022
Kosmos Trio: Brev til e Ven (Letter to a Friend)
Frede Holger Thorsen | Gustav Hagelskjær | Harald Hagelskjær
Kosmos Trio, a boyish-looking contemporary Danish piano trio that came together in 2017, project a Nordic sense of airy melancholy...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2022
Bill Frisell Quartet: Four
Johnathan Blake | Bill Frisell | Gerald Clayton | Greg Tardy
With a lineup joining the Coltraneish postbop conceptions of experienced tenorist and clarinetist Greg Tardy, and the lyrical yet always...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2022
Jimmy Scott/Oscar Brown Jr: Five Classic Albums
Charles Mingus | Dave Bailey | Oscar Brown Jr | Jimmy Scott | Mundell Lowe | Howard Biggs
This latest release in Avid Jazz’s Five Classic Albums series is a superb 2-CD set featuring three albums by vocalist...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2022
Jack McDuff: Live At Parnell’s
Henry Johnson | Jack McDuff | Dabby Wollinski | Garrick King
We reported on the high-tech, AI-assisted restoration of the old cassette tape this superb live album was taken from back...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: November/2022
Westbrook & Company: Paintbox Jane: Raoul Dufy Paints a Portrait
Kate and Mike Westbrook are Riviera people. Okay, it may be the Torquay Riviera, close to their West Country home,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2022
Julie Driscoll: 1969
“We want to choose happiness… but we find we are suffering” intones the earnest Driscoll on ‘The Choice’. And that...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2022
Pee Wee Russell / Coleman Hawkins: Jazz Reunion
The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz describes Candid as ‘short-lived but highly respected label for the quality of its sessions’.Part-owned...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2022
Nicki Leighton-Thomas: One Good Scandal
Nicki Leighton-Thomas | Rod Youngs | Alec Dankworth | Mike Pickering | Simon Wallace | Roy Dodds
A chance meeting with pianist and composer Simon Wallace, who at the time was working with songwriter, poet and performer...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2022
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