Reviews
The Fury: Live In Brooklyn
Matt Brewer | Tyshawn Sorey | Lage Lund | Mark Turner
These two intense live albums, recorded in August 2023 at Brooklyn’s Ornithology listening space, present two heavyweight left-field quartets playing...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: February/2025
Julia Hülsmann Quartet: Under the Surface
Benjamin Lackner | Linda May Han Oh | Mathias Eick | Mark Turner | Matthieu Chazarenc
In June 2012 the Julia Hülsmann Trio became a quartet with the addition of Tom Arthurs on trumpet who stayed...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2025
Xhosa Cole: On A Modern Genius (Vol.1)
Josh Vadiveloo | Heidi Vogel | Xhosa Cole | Liberty Styles | Nathan England Jones | Steve Saunders
Birmingham saxophonist Xhosa Cole cements his reputation as one of the UK’s most exciting improvisers on this tribute to Thelonious...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: February/2025
Camille Howard: The Empress of Boogie Woogie 1946-1956
Texas-born Camille Howard (1914-1993), real name Deasy Browning, like many of her fellow African- Americans made for Los Angeles where...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2025
John Donegan/The Irish Sextet: We Will Meet Again, Sometime
Donegan’s Irish Sextet albums have been reviewed here before, and always favourably. Now comes We Will Meet Again, Sometime, the...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2025
Billy Marrows Grande Familia Sextet: Mount Tibidabo
Billy Marrows | Olli Martin | Tom Potter | Flo Moore | Mike Soper | Tom Ridout
Marrows plays with such lyrical melodicism and an easeful swing, you can’t help but be seduced into his charmed world....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2025
Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express: Super Pop Montreux ‘70
Brian Auger | Keith Bailey | Jim Mullen | Barry Dean
Early adopters in fusing jazz with R&B and the multi-hued psychedelic directions surfacing in 1967, Brian Auger and Julie Driscoll...
Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: February/2025
Jelly Roll Morton: A Career Anthology Vol. 1 1923-28
There have been anthologies of Morton’s work before, notably a 2-CD set from Avid and a 4-CD Properbox, as well...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2025
The North with Norma Winstone: Wheeler with Words
Percy Pursglove | Nikki Isles | Mike Murley | Johnny Åman | Norma Winstone | Anders Mogensen
The lives and music of Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone (and of course John Taylor) remain so entwined that where the...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2025
Alfa Mist: Recurring (Live at Kings Place)
Live albums are often a practical, more affordable release option for artists, which is understandable given the high costs associated...
Reviewed by Gail Tasker in issue: 11/24
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