Reviews

Review of Hot Lips Page: Feelin’ High & Happy 1928-1953

Hot Lips Page: Feelin’ High & Happy 1928-1953

Wynonie Harris | Joe Turner | Jimmy Rushing | Lucky Thompson | Jack Teagarden | Albert Nicholas | Don Byas | Count Basie | Artie Shaw | Marian McPartland

Retrospective

Rating: ★★★★

Bobby Hackett is quoted in the liner notes, saying that in the mid-1930s the up-and-coming Page was signed to an...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2022

Review of Dafnis Prieto ft Luciana Souza: Cantar

Dafnis Prieto ft Luciana Souza: Cantar

Matt Brewer | Luciana Souza | Martin Bejerano | Dafnis Prieto | Peter Apfelbaum

Dafnison Music

Rating: ★★★★

The ninth album for Grammy-winning Cuban-born drummer, composer and bandleader Dafnis Prieto is a well-crafted global winner. Larry Klein produces...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2022

Review of Roamer: Lost Bees

Roamer: Lost Bees

Matthew Halpin | Lauren Kinsella | Simon Jermyn | Matthew Jacobson

Diatribe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Roamer are an improvising Irish quartet who reside in Berlin, Brooklyn, London and Dublin; and they make a point of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2022

Review of Chip Wickham: Cloud 10

Chip Wickham: Cloud 10

Jack McCarthy | Amanda Whiting | Phil Wilkinson | Eoin Grace | Chip Wickham | Jon Scott | Sneaky | Ton Risco

Gondwana

Rating: ★★★

Manchester’s Gondwana Records, under its founder Matthew Halsall, has provided a home for a parallel stream of contemporary UK jazz,...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: September/2022

Review of Hélène Duret/ Synestet: Rôles

Hélène Duret/ Synestet: Rôles

Benjamin Sauzereau | Sylvain Debaisieux | Maxime Rouayroux | Hélène Duret | Fil Caporali

Igloo Records

Rating: ★★★★

Chamber jazz or art rock? If you don’t like driving down roads that lead you-know-not-where (I mean that principally in...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2022

Review of Katalyst: Jazz Is Dead Series 2: Katalyst JID013

Katalyst: Jazz Is Dead Series 2: Katalyst JID013

Corbin Jones | David Otis | Greg Paul | Marlon Spears | Jonah Levine | Ahmad Dubose | Brian Hargrove | Emile Martinez | Brandon Cordoba

Jazz Is Dead

Rating: ★★★

Los Angeles-based group Katalyst Collective has been around since 2014, with backing dates for Gary Bartz and Roy Ayers on...

Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: September/2022

Review of Kirk Knuffke Trio: Gravity Without Airs

Kirk Knuffke Trio: Gravity Without Airs

Michael Bisio | Matthew Shipp | Kirk Knuffke

TAO Forms

Rating: ★★★★

American independent label Tao Forms has released music of consistently high quality over the past few years and this double...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2022

Review of Charles Lloyd: Trios: Ocean

Charles Lloyd: Trios: Ocean

Anthony Wilson | Gerald Clayton | Charles Lloyd

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★★

The joy of Lloyd’s Trios project is that each of the three bands is an on-the-road working band; they’ve not...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2022

Review of Avishai Cohen Trio: Shifting Sands

Avishai Cohen Trio: Shifting Sands

Elchin Shirinov | Roni Kaspi | Avishai Cohen

Editor's Choice

Naïve

Rating: ★★★★

Following the orchestral manoeuvres of 2021's epic Two Roses, shape-shifting Israeli bassist Cohen returns to the trio format – and...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2022

Review of Steve Baker: Tonic

Steve Baker: Tonic

Laura Jurd | Carmen Daye | Ralph Salmins | John Parricelli | Walter Mets | The Hungarian Studio Orchestra | Peter Illenyi | Mark Lockheart | Caroline Dale | Lauren Christie

Ubuntu Music

Rating: ★★★

Steve Baker is one of the myriad musicians and composers you will have heard but probably not heard of. As...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: September/2022

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