Ed Palermo Big Band: The Great Un-American Songbook Vol. III: Run for Your Life

Beatles medleys used to be interpreted by various 1970's easy listening big bands some downright hip, some cheesy, and even...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021

Tina May: 52nd Street (and Other Tales): Sings the Songs of Duncan Lamont

Mark Nightingale | James Pearson | Phil Hopkins | Chris Higginbottom | Sam Burgess | Tina May | Karen Street

The backstory of this, the latest in a classy line of albums May has recorded for the 33 label, is...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: March/2021

Bruno d'Ambra: Vesuviana

Under normal circumstances Bruno d'Ambra is a straight ahead pianist on the London circuit, but his piano trio here debuts...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021

QOW Trio

Riley Stone-Lonergan | Spike Wells | Eddie Myer

This post-bop, pre-lockdown recording is comforting and vivid, capturing three players in a resonant room loving their work. Combining three...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2021

Various Artists: Directions In Music 1969 to 1973: Miles Davis, His Musicians And The Birth Of A New Age Of Jazz

Chick Corea | Herbie Hancock | The Cosmic Echoes | Joe Zawinul | Gary Bartz | Wayne Shorter | John McLaughlin | Keith Jarrett | Miles Davis | Lonnie Liston Smith

The premise of this intriguing compilation is to illustrate how Miles Davis' 1970 LP Bitches Brew was the culmination of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2021

Stanley Cowell: Musa-Ancestral Streams

Stanley Cowell

2020 was particularly bad for bereavements in the jazz world, but the loss of Stanley Cowell in the dying embers...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2021

Marilyn Mazur's Future Song: Live Reflections

Hans Ulrik | Aina Kemanis | Audun Kleive | Makiko Hirabayashi | Tone Aase | Nils Petter Molvaer | Krister Jonsson | Elvira Plenar | Marilyn Mazur | Eivind Aarset

Denmark's Mazur gained instant fame when, after appearing with the Danish Radio Big Band for the Sonning Prize concert at...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2021

The Cannonball Adderley Quinet: Accent On Africa

Nat Adderley | Julian Cannonball Adderley

Cannonball Adderley's tenure at Capitol Records in the 1960s saw him working extensively with the label's great composer-arranger-producer David Axelrod....

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2021

Gabriel Vicéns: The Way We Are Created

Roman Filiú | Gabriel Vincéns | Victor Pablo | Glenn Zaleski | EJ Strickland | Rick Rosato

The roots of the compositions presented on Vicéns' third release lie in the rhythms of Puerto Rican folklore. But the...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2021

Vis-A-Vis: Obi Agye Me Defo

Gybson ‘Shaoln Kung Fu Papra | Isaac ‘Superstar’ Yebooah | Sammy Cropper | Slim Manu

West Africa in the mid 1970s had no shortage of thrilling experimentation going on, as the tremors of the dance...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2021