Reviews
Logan Kane: Floor Plans
John Escreet | Logan Kane | David Binney | Paul Cornish | Mark Turner | Jon Hatamiya | Benjamin Ring
Logan Kane, the 26 year-old West Coast bassist and composer, has been making waves on the LA scene since he...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Richard Baratta: Off The Charts
Paul Rossman | Richard Baratta | David Kikoski | John Patitucci | Jerry Bergonzi
First, the Baratta story: Born 1950 in Poughkeepsie, NY. Reeds initially, then drums; to New York in 1975, played with...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Ahmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights (Vol. 3): Live at the Penthouse 1966-1968
Ahmad Jamal | Frank Gant | Jamil Nasser
In his long career, Ahmad Jamal liked to stretch out and play long versions of pieces, both familiar jazz standards...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Samara Joy: A Joyful Holiday
Surely one of the most gifted – and, as time may yet reveal – important jazz vocalists of our century,...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Bill Evans: Tales: Live in Copenhagen, 1964
Eddie Gomez | Bill Evans | Chuck Israels | Marty Morell | Larry Bunker
It’s not often that a recording comes along from over half a century ago that has never been released before,...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Gregory Porter: Christmas Wish
With deluxe string/harp arrangements, some ingenious song choices including Marvin Gaye’s trippy ‘Purple Snowflakes’, the Sammy Cahn/Jule Styne-penned ‘Christmas Waltz’...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Willie Colón: Asalto Navideño Vol.II
The translation of the title is – initially – rather odd: ‘Christmas Assault’; and the cover is bizarre too. But...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Jim Rattigan and Ivo Neame: Dialogues
These three albums (also available as a boxed set called Duos) represent the jazz side of Jim Rattigan’s work, playing...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Get The Blessing: Pallett
Pete Judge | Jim Barr | Clive Deamer | Jake McMurchie
The rule-bending Bristol-based four-piece Get the Blessing now record for a new label of their own that’s titled after their...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Arild Andersen: Affirmation
Helge Lien | Arild Andersen | Håkon Mjåset Johansen | Marius Neset
This entrancing and almost entirely improvised session was one of the creative happenstances the pandemic's restrictions often prompted. In November...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: December/January/2023/2024
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