Reviews
Vince Guaraldi: It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown
The thing about movie or TV music cues is that they are usually rather short, and the segments of Vince...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: May/2024
Yusef Lateef: Atlantis Lullaby The Concert From Avignon
Kenny Barron | Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath | Yusef Lateef | Bob Cunningham
Although Yusef Lateef is one of the undisputed pioneers of ‘eastern sounds’ he also had deep roots in the blues,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2024
Simon Lasky Group: For The Dreamers
UK-born, US-based Simon Lasky is a very highly regarded composer, pianist and educator who has also made his mark with...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: May/2024
Lucien Johnson: Ancient Relics
In recent years, the term 'spiritual jazz' has become increasingly used to describe a sub-genre of music: rather than signifying...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2024
Jonny Mansfield: Quartet! Live At Pizza Express
Luke McCarthy | Will Barry | Jonny Mansfield | Will Sach
Mansfield is not one to let the grass grow under his feet, and this release comes hot on the heels...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: May/2024
Mark Lockheart: Smiling
Ubiquity is one of the major problems jaz.z musicians face in the UK once they achieve a degree of national...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2024
Art Farmer: Portrait of Art Farmer
Hank Jones | Roy Haynes | Art Farmer | Addison Farmer
Although he’d honed his bop chops with the likes of Wardell Gray and Dexter Gordon, served time in the R&B...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: May/2024
A mighty confirmation of Byas!: Don Byas: Classic Don Byas Sessions 1944-1946
Considering Don Byas’ place in the tenor scheme of things, the Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD is unequivocal: “Byas...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2024
Art Ensemble Of Chicago: A Jackson In Your House
Malachi Favors | Joseph Jarman | Roscoe Mitchell | Lester Bowie
Part of the historic wave of American expatriates who took the avant-garde to Paris at the end of the 1960s,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2024
Gordon Grdina’s The Marrow with Fathieh Honari: The Marrow With Fathieh Honari
Hank Roberts | Gordon Grdina | Mark Helias | Hamin Honari | Fathieh Honari
Although the oud is one of the emblematic instruments of the Middle East, it has been deployed to good effect...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2024
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