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Review of Various Artists: Here It Is: A tribute to Leonard Cohen

Various Artists: Here It Is: A tribute to Leonard Cohen

Gregory Porter | Norah Jones | Scott Colley | Bill Frisell | Lusiana Souza | Greg Leisz | Kevin Hays | James Taylor | Nathaniel Rateliff | Immanuel Wilkins

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★★

Artists have been covering the songs of Leonard Cohen since at least 1969, when Roberta Flack included ‘Hey, That's No...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2022

Review of Miguel Zenón Quartet: Música de Las Américas

Miguel Zenón Quartet: Música de Las Américas

Luis Perdomo | Daniel Díaz | Miguel Zenón | Paoli Mejías | Hans Glawischnig | Victor Emmanuelli | Henry Cole

Miel Music

Rating: ★★★★

Raised in Puerto Rico, schooled in jazz at Berklee, and mentored in his youth by influences as powerful as Danilo...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2022

Review of Oceans of Silver and Blood: Acetate

Oceans of Silver and Blood: Acetate

Joachim Nordwall | Mark Wastell

Confront Recordings

Rating: ★★★

The two shimmering yet visceral improvisations on this mini-album were originally released on Nordwall's own imprint back in 2014. Sadly,...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2022

Review of Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia: Saturday Night In San Francisco 12-6-80

Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia: Saturday Night In San Francisco 12-6-80

John McLaughlin | Paco De Lucia | Al Di Meola

Ear Music Classics

Rating: ★★★★

Friday Night In San Francisco is of course the stuff of legend, an album that not only propelled the three...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2022

Review of Tommy Crane: We're All Improvisers Now

Tommy Crane: We're All Improvisers Now

Simon Angell | Charlotte Greve | Jordan Brooks | Logan Richardson | Tommy Crane | Pietro Amato | Chris Speed

Whirlwind

Rating: ★★★

Drummer Tommy Crane moved to Montreal from a Sienna teaching sojourn days before lockdown. Creatively stocking up for the long...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: October/2022

Review of Brian Auger & The Trinity: Far Horizons

Brian Auger & The Trinity: Far Horizons

Micky Waller | Dave Ambrose | Rick Laird | Roger Sutton | Vic Briggs | Gary Boyle | Clive Thacker | Brian Auger | Ricky Brown | Julie Driscoll

Editor's Choice

Soul Bank Music

Rating: ★★★★

Far Horizons is four classic albums revived on vinyl, as befits their 1960s vintage. Post-Steampacket, Auger conjured his jazz, pop...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2022

Review of Vic Parker: At The Quebec Hotel

Vic Parker: At The Quebec Hotel

Jed Williams | Vic Parker | Chris Hodgkins

Bell

Rating: ★★★

As Val Wilmer's fascinating note makes clear, Parker was ‘a Cardiff legend’, locally born but of West Indian stock and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2022

Review of Art Themen/Dave Barry Quartet: Hanky Panky

Art Themen/Dave Barry Quartet: Hanky Panky

Dave Green | Art Themen | Gareth Williams | Dave Barry

Trio

Rating: ★★★★

Barry says a session was cancelled so instead he corralled Themen, Williams and Green, all of whom were available at...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2022

Review of Jeff Coffin: Between Dreaming and Joy

Jeff Coffin: Between Dreaming and Joy

Emmanuel Echem | Mike Baggetta | Derrek Phillips | Ray Mason | DJ Logic | Richard Aspinwall | Marcus King | Michael League | Vicente Archer | Derico Watson

Ear Up Records

Rating: ★★★

Saxophonist Jeff Coffin – formerly of Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, now of the Dave Matthews Band – is a...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2022

Review of Mark Guiliana: the sound of listening

Mark Guiliana: the sound of listening

Mark Guiliana | Chris Morrissey | Jason Rigby | Shai Maestro

Edition Records

Rating: ★★★★

New Jersey-born drummer Mark Guiliana releases his first quartet recording for five years on the high-profile, internationalist, UK-based Edition Records...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2022

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