Reviews
Lonnie Johnson and Victoria Spivey: Four Classic Albums... Plus
Despite the double billing, this is actually a collection of four Lonnie Johnson LPs made from 1946-62, one of which...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2024
The Other Way: Learning to Be
Guillaume Ottaviani | Elly Hopkins | Rowan Porteous | Emma Holbrook | Billie Bottle
As the band name suggests, there’s a contrarian resistance to consistency about this self-released album. The irony starts with opening...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: June/2024
Julie Sassoon/Lothar Ohlmeier/Mia Ohlmeier: Inside Colours Live
Julie Sassoon | Mia Ohlmeier | Lothar Ohlmeier
The Manchester-raised, former classical pianist and violinist Julie Sassoon diverted into studies of her own as a 1990s post-grad at...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2024
Manne up!: Shelly Manne & His Men: Jazz From the Pacific Northwest
It’s to be welcomed that the West Coast jazz scene in the 1940s, through the 50s and into the 60s,...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2024
Capitol gains: Nancy Wilson: But Beautiful
Two splendid Capitol albums, given the Pure Pleasure reissue treatment (with excellent sound and authentic packaging). The Nancy Wilson LP,...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2024
Album Interview: Alina Bzhezhinska and Tony Kofi: Altera Vita
Tony Kofi | Muriel Grossman | Alina Bzhezhinska
Three rings on a singing bowl, and Altera Vita unfurls slowly, languorously, into being, a sonic lotus flower in a...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2024
Doubling down on bass: Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer: But Who’s Going To Play The Melody?
Edgar Meyer | Chrstian McBride
Team up one of the world’s leading classical bassists with his counterpart from the jazz environment, and the results should...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2024
Tom Ollendorff and Fabrice Tarel Quartet: London Vibes - Suite For Freedom
Fabrice Tarel | Marc Michel | Christophe Lincontang | Tom Ollendorff
Respect for Ollendorff grows across the scene, but it’s Tarel who takes the limelight with this suite of his compositions....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2024
Andrew Woodhead (plus George Crowley): Swing You Sinners
Jeff Williams | George Crowley | Nick Jurd | Andrew Woodhead | Sam Wooster
A largely Birmingham-based quintet, led by the pianist Andrew Woodhead, celebrates the mercurial music that gloriously soundtracked Fleischer Studios’ 1930s...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2024
Thelonious Monk: Criss-Cross
John Ore | Thelonious Monk | Charlie Rouse | Frankie Dunlop
This LP was Thelonious Monk’s second album for Columbia Records after Monk’s Dream; much of it was recorded at the...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2024
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