Carlos Garnett: The New Love/Cosmos Nucleus/Let This Melody Ring On

Terumasa Hino | Carlos Garnett | Olu Dara | Cecil McBee | Guilherme Franco | Howard King | Alphonse Mouzon | Neil Clarke | Anthony Jackson | Hubert Eaves

Although less well known than Billy Cobham, Carlos Garnett is the other Panamanian who came to prominence in the jazz...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2015

Black Flower: Abyssinia Afterlife

Simon Segers | Wouter Haest | Nathan Daems | Jon Birdsong | Filip Vanderbril

Snaky melodies on alto sax; a walking bassline with swing and swagger; crashing drums, quirky effects and horns, horns, horns…...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2015

Filomena Campus and Giorgio Serci: Scaramouche

Filomena Campus | Rowland Sutherland | Giorgio Serci | Adriano Adewale | Keld String Ensemble | Kenny Wheeler

Guitarist Giorgio Serci and vocalist Filomena Campus, two Sardinian musicians resident in the UK, have created a captivating cycle of...

Reviewed by Charles Alexander in issue: May/2015

José James: Yesterday I Had The Blues: The Music Of Billie Holiday

José James | Jason Moran | John Patitucci | Eric Harland

After the somewhat inconsistent While You Were Sleeping, this is a definite return to winning ways for vocalist James. As...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2015

Melanie De Biasio: No Deal Remixed

A Gilles Peterson favourite, the Belgian singer is a kind of downtempo version of Nina Simone, and gets the remix...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2015

Joe McPhee & John Snyder: To Be Continued

Joe McPhee | John Snyder | Jerry Jones | Michael Driver | Ernie Vaughn | Eddie Saunders | Albert Henderson | Norman Moore | Freddie Johnson | Charlie McPhee

Massaging the connection that would yield such enchanted fruits on the wonderful Pieces Of Light the following year, comes this...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: May/2015

Jim Hall: It's Nice To Be With You

Hall, Humair and Woode make a fine trio, recorded in Berlin, and this catches Hall in 1969 just as he...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2015

Idris Muhammad: Turn This Mutha Out

Clifford Carter | Wilbur Bascomb | Michael Brecker | Hiram Bullock | Idris Muhammad | Jeremy Steig

This kind of ‘disco jazz funk’, as it's called in the booklet, would have no doubt served the argument that...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2015

Cecil Payne: Four Classic Albums

Baritone saxophonists don't get as much attention as they should, and this collection by Payne reminds us why the likes...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Miles Davis: Live in Berlin 1969

Sarah Vaughan | Johnny Veith | Eddy Pucci | Gus Mancuso

The album package claim that this is “the first time ever on CD” of the 7 November 1969 Berlin performance...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2017