Reviews

Review of Mary Halvorson: Amaryllis/Belladonna

Mary Halvorson: Amaryllis/Belladonna

Mary Halvorson | Tomas Fujiwara | Adam O’Farrill | Jacob Garchik | the Mivos String Quartet | Patricia Brennan

Editor's Choice

Nonesuch Records

Rating: ★★★★

A new label and a flowering of new material from the ever-fecund Halvorson. There are actually two different albums which...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2022

Review of Emily Francis Trio: Luma

Emily Francis Trio: Luma

Emily Francis | Jamie Murray | Trevor Boxall

Bridge The Gap

Rating: ★★★

It’s been a while since the Emily Francis Trio’s debut The Absent (2015), and Luma’s leap forward illustrates the ever-morphing...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2022

Review of Trish Clowes: A View With A Room

Trish Clowes: A View With A Room

James Maddren | Trish Clowes | Chris Montague | Ross Stanley

Editor's Choice

Greenleaf Music

Rating: ★★★★

Hopefully, one of the last releases – although certainly one of the best – born from the disaster that was...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2022

Review of Curtis Fuller Quintet: Blues-ette

Curtis Fuller Quintet: Blues-ette

Louis Hayes | Curtis Fuller | Benny Golson | Sonny Red | Tommy Flanagan | Jimmy Garrison | George Tucker | Flanagan | Fuller | Al Harewood

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

Here’s Fuller in his 1950s heyday when he seemed to be perpetually in the New York studios cutting albums for...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2022

Review of Dinah Washington: The Swingin’ Miss D

Dinah Washington: The Swingin’ Miss D

Quentin Jackson | Wynton Kelly | Cecil Payne | Lucky Thompson | Dinah Washington | Barry Galbraith | Charlie Shavers | Clark Terry | Jimmy Cleveland | Nick Travis

Editor's Choice

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

It’s no surprise that the combination of Washington and Jones seemed a good idea at the time, or that this...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2022

Review of Wolfgang Haffner Dream Band: Live in Concert

Wolfgang Haffner Dream Band: Live in Concert

Thomas Stieger | Randy Brecker | Christopher Dell | Bill Evans | Simon Oslender | Wolfgang Haffner | Nile Landgren

ACT Music

Rating: ★★★

German drummer Haffner (born 1965) is a regular on ACT and put this band of his ‘favourite artists’ together for...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2022

Review of Brian Jackson: This Is Brian Jackson

Brian Jackson: This Is Brian Jackson

Daniel Collas | Brian Jackson | Juliet Swango | Harvey Mason | Monika Heidemann | Moussa Fadera | Aurelio Valle | Camelia Hartman | Barnett Williams | Ben Romans-Hopcraft

Editor's Choice

BBE

Rating: ★★★★

The strong affirmation of the title can be taken a number of ways. Here is the work of an immensely...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2022

Review of Soft Machine: Facelift France and Holland

Soft Machine: Facelift France and Holland

Mike Ratledge | Hugh Hopper | Elton Dean | Robert Wyatt | Lyn Dobson

Editor's Choice

Cuneiform Records Rune

Rating: ★★★★

Phew, not so much a release, as event that will have Softs fans drooling. There are over two hours of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2022

Review of Alternative Guitar Summit: Honoring Pat Martino Vol 1

Alternative Guitar Summit: Honoring Pat Martino Vol 1

Greg Fundis | Fareed Haque | Ed Cherry | Peter Bernstein | Russell Malone | Kevin Kozol | Tobias Ralph | Dezron Douglas | Richard Christian | Rez Abbasi

HighNote HCD

Rating: ★★★★

No fewer than 14 guitarists and three rhythm sections make up the Alternative Guitar Summit – an annual live event...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2022

Review of Doudou Gouirand: Voices For Peace

Doudou Gouirand: Voices For Peace

Doudou Gouirand | Joël Allouche | Jean-Sébastien Simonoviev

Label Hâtive!

Rating: ★★★

Octogenarian French saxophonist and composer Gerard ‘Doudou’ Gouirand has played and recorded with many jazz greats across the decades: his...

Reviewed by Jon Clay in issue: June/2022

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