Reviews

Review of Avishai Cohen: Cross My Palm With Silver

Avishai Cohen: Cross My Palm With Silver

Nasheet Waits | Avishai Cohen | Yonathan Avishai | Barak Mori

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

The questionable moral sub-text of the title, sadly all too relevant to an age in which those of a lesser...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2017

Review of Irving Mills: Hotsy Totsy Gang 1928-1929

Irving Mills: Hotsy Totsy Gang 1928-1929

Retrieval

Rating: ★★★

A collection of 24 tracks from the period when Mills was the main Mr Fixit on the NY jazz scene,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2017

Review of Gareth Lockrane Big Band: Fistfght at the Barn Dance

Gareth Lockrane Big Band: Fistfght at the Barn Dance

Paul Booth | Mike Outram | Mark Nightingale | Sam Mayne | Jonny Mansfield | Richard Shepherd | Nadim Teimoori | James Gardiner-Bateman | Ross Stanley | Steve Fishwick

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★

This is the first call London-based flute specialist and composer Gareth Lockrane's long awaited Big Band debut release on Michael...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Review of Karin Krog: The Many Faces of Karin Krog

Karin Krog: The Many Faces of Karin Krog

Karin Krog

Odin

Rating: ★★★★

Thanks to executive producer Helge Westbye and the good people at Odin Records, the extraordinary depth and breadth of vocalist...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2017

Review of Chicago/London Underground: A Night Walking Through Mirrors

Chicago/London Underground: A Night Walking Through Mirrors

John Edwards | Alexander Hawkins | Chad Taylor | Rob Mazurek

Cuneiform

Rating: ★★★★

Chicagoan cornetist Rob Mazurek's notion of the underground has always been about freedom: freedom from oppression, from barriers and from...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2017

Review of Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: Who Doesn't Fade?

Rodger Coleman & Sam Byrd: Who Doesn't Fade?

Sam Byrd | Rodger Coleman

NuVoid Jazz Records

Rating: ★★★★

These guys have been bouncing ideas off one another for a while now, but with the successive releases of their...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: September/2017

Review of Hank Jones: Four Classic Albums

Hank Jones: Four Classic Albums

Avid

Rating: ★★★★

Jones had such a long and rewarding career, consistently praised until his death in 2010, that it's instructive to go...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020

Review of Kaleidon: Free Love

Kaleidon: Free Love

Stefano Sabatini | Franco Tallarita | Massimo Balla | Giovanni Liberti

Fonit

If you'd been active on the underground scene in late-1960s Rome, you might have been familiar with a hippie-rock outfit...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2017

Review of Henri Salvador: Mes Inédits Janvier-Juin 1958

Henri Salvador: Mes Inédits Janvier-Juin 1958

Frémeaux

Rating: ★★★

The first ever CD release of Salvador's guest spots on Pour Ceux Qui Aiment Le Jazz, a French radio show...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2017

Review of Big Bad Wolf: Pond Life

Big Bad Wolf: Pond Life

Jay Davis | Rob Luft | Owen Dawson | Michael de Souza

self-released

Rating: ★★★★

Big Bad Wolf are building a big bad rep on the indie jazz'n'rock scene, and understandably so. They ply a...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2017

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