Reviews

Review of Nightports with Tom Herbert

Nightports with Tom Herbert

Adam Martin | Tom Herbert | Mark Slater

The Leaf Label BAY

Rating: ★★★★

Adam Martin and Mark Slater AKA Nightports are an experimental studio production team currently recording a series of collaborations with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2022

Review of Norah Jones: Come Away With Me: 20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition

Norah Jones: Come Away With Me: 20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition

Dan Rieser | Brian Blade | Lee Alexander | Adam Levy | Norah Jones | Jesse Harris

Editor's Choice

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★★

A little over 20 years ago, a 14-track debut album from a relatively unknown singer-songwriter and pianist was released on...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2022

Review of Grand Union Orchestra: Made By Human Hands

Grand Union Orchestra: Made By Human Hands

Ketan Kerai | Baluji Shrivastav | Mingo Rangel | Ken Johnson | Gail Ann Dorsey | Tony Haynes | Fiona Burnett | Tony Kofi | Courtney Pine | Gerry Hunt

Editor's Choice

Red Gold Records

Rating: ★★★★

Made by human hands, all right – a sprawling cast of crack musicians have crafted this celebratory recording, a work...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2022

Review of Louis Prima: The King of Jumpin’ Swing: Greatest Hits

Louis Prima: The King of Jumpin’ Swing: Greatest Hits

Harvey Lang | Kelly Smith | Jack Marshall | Bobby Morris | Paul Ferrara | Little Red Blount | John Nagy | Louis Prima | Tony Liuzza | Willie McCumber Jr.

Editor's Choice

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

Although Prima’s little band that played on 52nd Street in the 1930s produced some almost forgotten (and much jazzier) gems,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2022

Review of Dave Douglas: Secular Psalms

Dave Douglas: Secular Psalms

Tomeka Reid | Berlinde Denman | Dave Douglas | Lander Gyselinck | Marta Warelis | Frederick Leroux

Greenleaf Music

Rating: ★★★

Secular Psalms evolved from a commission to celebrate the 600th anniversary of Jan and Hubert van Eyck’s painting The Adoration...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2022

Review of Alexander Hawkins Mirror Canon: Break A Vase

Alexander Hawkins Mirror Canon: Break A Vase

Otto Fischer | Stephen Davis | Alexander Hawkins | Neil Charles | Richard Olátundé Baker | Shabaka Hutchings

Editor's Choice

Intakt

Rating: ★★★★

Two enormously productive UK musicians, Hawkins and Hutchings, join together (alongside bass hotshot Neil Charles, aka Ben Marc) for this...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2022

Review of David Binney: Tomorrow’s Journey

David Binney: Tomorrow’s Journey

Luca Mendoza | Logan Kane | Jon Hatamiya | Aaron Janik | Benjamin Ring | Paul Cornish | Kenny Wolleson | David Binney | Ethan Moffit

Ghost Note Records

Rating: ★★★★

Alto saxophonist-composer David Binney is also an in-demand producer and runs his own record label Mythology. Over a prolific recording...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2022

Review of Jeremy Pelt: Soundtrack

Jeremy Pelt: Soundtrack

Victor Gould | Allan Mednard | Chien Chien Lu | Jeremy Pelt | Brittany Anjou | Vincente Archer | Anne Drummond

Editor's Choice

HighNote HCD

Rating: ★★★★

Jeremy Pelt’s first post-lockdown recording finds the trumpeter back on track with his regular working band. The opener, 'Picking Up...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2022

Review of Mário Laginha Trio: Jangada

Mário Laginha Trio: Jangada

Alexandre Frazão | Bernardo Moreira | Mário Laginha

Edition

Rating: ★★★★

At age 61, Laginha has built a secure reputation in his native Portugal, both as vocalist Maria João’s accompanist of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2022

Review of Tigran Hamasyan: StandArt

Tigran Hamasyan: StandArt

Ambrose Akinmusire | Tigran Hamasyan | Matt Brewer | Joshua Joshua Redman | Mark Turner | Justin Brown

Editor's Choice

Nonesuch 0075597911473

Rating: ★★★★

The LA-based, Armenian pianist-composer Tigran Hamasyan continues to break new ground with his acoustic piano trio’s outside-the-box interpretations of Broadway-to-bebop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2022

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