Jazz Passengers: April 1990

Jim Nolet | Roy Nathanson | Curtis Fowlkes | Bradley Jones | Marc Ribot | Bill Ware | Edwin Jesus Rodriguez

Being in the Jazz Passengers sounds like fun. The band began in 1987, emerging from John Lurie's Lounge Lizards, and...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: November/2015

Bob Merrill: Cheerin' up the Universe

The smooth-toned trumpeter and crooner Bob Merrill has set himself quite a challenge looking at the title of his fourth...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015

Phil Haynes: Sanctuary

An engaging solo drums recording that's like a softly percussive version of Sanchez' Birdman. The drummer is an experienced veteran...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015

Unhinged Sextet: Clarity

A sextet from the Arizona area performs originals and standards in a pretty straightahead idiom that has really very little...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2020

Torsten Goods: Thank You Baby!

Wolfgang Haffner | Tim Lefebvre | Tim LeFebvre | Roberto Di Gioia | Torsten Goods

Born to a German blues-musician father and Irish mother, 30-something Torsten Goods is still restlessly seeking out new directions for...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2015

John Coltrane: Last Performance Newport July 2, 1966

Pharoah Sanders | Jimmy Garrison | John Coltrane | Alice Coltrane

According to the liner notes, this is the first time that Coltrane's final Newport Jazz Festival appearance in July 1966...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2015

John Pizzarelli: Midnight McCartney

Harry Allen | John Pizzarelli | Martin Pizzarelli | Bucky Pizzarelli | Larry Goldings

I've never quite taken to Pizzarelli's effete-sounding, Sinatra-lite vocals while fully realising that I'm in a minority, probably, of one....

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2015

Laszlo Gardony: Life in Real Time

Stan Strickland | Laszlo Gardony | Yoron Israel | John Lockwood | Bill Pierce | Don Braden

Gardony is Hungarian. He started out classically-trained, but then discovered progressive rock (the influence is sometimes still there in his...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2015

Sunna Gunnlaugs: Cielito Lindo

Scott McLemore | Sunna Gunnlaugs | Porgrimur Jonsson

If your idea of Icelandic music goes no further than Björk then it's time to think again. The impressive pianist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015

Durham University Big Band: Overdubb

Kicking off with the theme from the film Whiplash, the impressive Durham University Big Band beat out a youthfully energetic...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015