Reviews
JJ Johnson & Kai Winding: Trombones For Two – The Classic Collaborations 1953-56
Seeing Johnson and Winding side by side on their sole UK appearance together in September 1958, as part of the...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2021/2022
SKRIM: The Crooked Path
Ståle Storl⊘kken | Morten Qvenild | Stian Westerhus | Gard Nilssen
Featuring a veritable ‘who’s who’ of Scandi-jazz legends (Storl⊘kken and Westerhus you’ll know of course, Qvenild and Nilssen have plied...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Kuzu: All Your Ghosts in One Corner
Chicago-based saxophonist Dave Rempis leads an exhaustingly relentless free jazz sax-guitar trio set; performing live immediately pre-lockdown, the recording has...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Arturo O'Farrill: Dreaming In Lions
It feels like Arturo O'Farrill's Blue Note debut has been a long time coming - the Cuban-descended New York pianist,...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Jorge Rossy Trio: Puerta
Robert Landfermann | Jorge Rossy | Jeff Ballard
The band leader Jorge Rossy made a name for himself as a drummer with Brad Mehldau’s original trio after having...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022
George Webb’s Dixielanders: The Pioneers of British Traditional Jazz
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings described these recordings as ‘the Dead Sea Scrolls of British traditional jazz’, representing as...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Houston Person: Live in Paris
Houston Person | Peter Bernstein | Willie Jones III | Ben Paterson
Person and company were in Paris for Festival Jazz a la Villette, their set recorded by France Musique and how...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Zutty Singleton: Icon of New Orleans Drumming – The Heartbeat of Jazz 1924-1969
Louisiana-born drummer Arthur ‘Zutty’ Singleton [1898-1975] – his nickname was Creole for ‘cute’ – first made his way in New...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Ill Considered: Liminal Space
Ill Considered have pursued an underground course, releasing nine raw improvised albums – including a Christmas LP, natch – in...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Chris Connor: The Early Years: Singles and Albums 1952-56
For a singer who was quite as popular, well-known and long-lived as Chris Connor, touring in late 1950s packages with...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/January/2021/2022
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