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Review of Anatole Muster: Wonderful Now

Anatole Muster: Wonderful Now

Telemakus | Safwan Shoptoe Chowdhury | Juliana Chahayed | Anatole Muster | Mackwood | Mitchell Peterson | M Field | plus guests Louis Cole

Self-release

Rating: ★★★

Accordionist Anatole Muster may still be in his early twenties but he’s not hanging about. Swiss-born and London-based he’s already...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: June/2024

Review of Paco de Lucia and Pepito de Lucia: Pepe y Paquito

Paco de Lucia and Pepito de Lucia: Pepe y Paquito

Paco De Lucia | Paco de Lucia | Pepito de Lucia

Editor's Choice

BMG

Rating: ★★★★

This some find. Originally recorded on a vintage Grundig TK36 tape recorder in the years 1959 and 1960, unearthed from...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2024

Review of Jack Walrath: Live At Smalls

Jack Walrath: Live At Smalls

Boris Koslov | Jack Walrath | Abraham Burton | George Burton | Donald Edwards

Editor's Choice

Cellar Live

Rating: ★★★★

Jack Walrath has been living and playing jazz in NYC since 1970, working with a host of luminaries, not least...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: June/2024

Review of Owen Broder: Hodges Front and Center Vol. Two

Owen Broder: Hodges Front and Center Vol. Two

Barry Stephenson III | Carmen Staaf | Bryan Carter | Owen Broder | Riley Mulherkar

Outside In Music

Rating: ★★★★

We took note of Broder’s Volume 1 in Jazzwise 278 and liked it. As the blurb puts it, "the album...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2024

Review of Black power!: Black Art Jazz Collective: Truth to Power

Black power!: Black Art Jazz Collective: Truth to Power

Johnathan Blake | Victor Gould | Rashaan Carter | Xavier Davis | Wayne Escoffery | Josh Evans | Jeremy Pelt | Wallace Roney Jnr. | Vincente Archer | Mark Whitfield Jnr

High Note Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Black Art Jazz Collective mark their 10th anniversary with a stirring collection of originals recorded by two different line-ups...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2024

Review of Manuel Valera Trio: Live at L’Osons Jazz Club

Manuel Valera Trio: Live at L’Osons Jazz Club

Mark Whitfield Jr | Yasushi Nakamura | Manuel Valera

Jammin’ColorS

Rating: ★★★

Originally broadcast by French radio in 2018, this album by what was then Manuel Valera’s new trio was scheduled to...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2024

Review of Albert Nicholas/Edmond Hall/George Lewis: Great Jazz Great Clarinets 1953-1957

Albert Nicholas/Edmond Hall/George Lewis: Great Jazz Great Clarinets 1953-1957

Dick Oxtot | Charlie Lodice | Louis Sharpton | Edmond Hall | Albert Nicholas | Walter Page | George Lewis | PT Stanton | unknown personnel | Barbara Dane

Upbeat

Rating: ★★★★

Here’s another of Upbeat’s ready-made compilations from their takeover of the Jazz Crusade label, where it first appeared as Rare...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2024

Review of Cannonball Adderley Quintet: Live in Montreal 1975

Cannonball Adderley Quintet: Live in Montreal 1975

Walter Booker | Cannonball Adderley | Michael Wolff | Nat Adderley | Roy McCurdy

Liberation Hall

Rating: ★★★

There’s been a real flurry of late-period Adderley Quintet ‘live’ discoveries recently; this Montreal club recording follows hard on our...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2024

Review of Alexander Hawkins/Sofia Jernberg: Musho

Alexander Hawkins/Sofia Jernberg: Musho

Sofia Jernberg | Alexander Hawkins

Intakt

Rating: ★★★★

Sofia Jernberg and Alexander Hawkins first performed together at Amsterdam’s Bimhuis in 2016, under the name Musho – an Amharic...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2024

Review of Ron Carter: Where?

Ron Carter: Where?

Mal Waldron | Charlie Persip | George Duvivier | Ron Carter | Eric Dolphy

Editor's Choice

Prestige New Jazz/Original Jazz Classics/Craft Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Carter has played on at least 2,200 albums. But he’s also made a few as leader – including Where?, his...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2024

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