Reviews

Review of Romain Collin: Press Enter

Romain Collin: Press Enter

Grey McMurray | Laura Metcalf | Megan Rose | Jean-Michel Pilc | Luques Curtis | Kendrick Scott | Mino Cinelu | Romain Collin

ACT

Rating: ★★★

Born in France but based in New York, to which he moved after graduating from the Berklee College of Music...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2015

Review of Various: 3 Nights At Cafe Oto

Various: 3 Nights At Cafe Oto

John Edwards | Eddie Prévost | Alexander v. Schlippenbach | Evan Parker | Christof Thewes

Matchless

Rating: ★★★★

Is it too fanciful to suggest that Cafe Oto is the new Village Vanguard? Just as, from the late 1950s...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2015

Review of Various Artists: Introducing M-Base

Various Artists: Introducing M-Base

Gary Thomas | Cassandra Wilson | Greg Osby | Geri Allen | Jean-Paul Bourelly | Steve Coleman

Winter & Winter

Rating: ★★★★

The sub-title of this compilation, Brooklyn In The 1980s, is not insignificant. For while the term M-Base has become a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2015

Review of Keith Jarrett: Original Album Series

Keith Jarrett: Original Album Series

Toots Thielemans | Bill Evans | Elliott Zigmund | Marc Johnson | Eddie Gomez | Larry Schneider | Joe LaBarbera

Rhino/Warner

Rating: ★★★★

This set – with facsimile cover art of the original 12-inch LP reduced to CD size cardboard sleeves – documents...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2016

Review of Wolfgang Muthspiel: Vienna, World

Wolfgang Muthspiel: Vienna, World

with local musicians in Sweden, Brazil, Argentia, USA and Austria | Wolfgang Muthspiel

Material Records

Rating: ★★

Guitarist Muthspiel's career is one marked by steady competence and good taste. Not one to shout his name from the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2015

Review of Humphrey Lyttelton: In Canada

Humphrey Lyttelton: In Canada

Jim Galloway | Terry Clarke | Neil Swainson | Ed Bickert | Humphrey Lyttelton

Sackville SK

Rating: ★★★★

Humph journeyed to Canada to appear at a local jazz festival in 1983 and Sackville's John Norris took the opportunity...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2015

Review of Gary Peacock Trio: Now This

Gary Peacock Trio: Now This

Joey Baron | Gary Peacock | Marc Copland

ECM

Rating: ★★★

Released to coincide with Peacock's 80th birthday back in May, this makes a change from both his work with pianist...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2015

Review of Stan Tracey with Mike Osborne: Alone & Together

Stan Tracey with Mike Osborne: Alone & Together

Stan Tracey | Mike Osborne

Cadillac

Rating: ★★★

An exemplary expanded reissue, this includes the solo Tracey album Alone (the continuous piece then called ‘Wigmore Extempore’ now rechristened...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2015

Review of Hayden Chisholm: Breve

Hayden Chisholm: Breve

Hayden Chisholm | John Taylor | Matt Penman

Pirouet Records

Rating: ★★★

Light and lyrical, this is the debut studio set from the trio founded in 2007 and led by New Zealandborn,...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2015

Review of The Chicago Reed Quartet: Western Automatic

The Chicago Reed Quartet: Western Automatic

Dave Rempis | Ken Vandermark | Nick Mazzarella | Mars Williams

Aerophonic

Rating: ★★★★

This duck-billed doozy finds four generations of horn honkers blowing in from the Windy City to cut a cross-section through...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: July/2015

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