Reviews

Review of Gary Burton: Who Is Gary Burton?

Gary Burton: Who Is Gary Burton?

Gary Burton | Joe Morello | Bob Moore | John Neves | Clark Terry | Murray Harman | Phil Woods | William Pursell | Hank Garland | Chris Swansen

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

This album dovetails neatly with Burton's New Vibe Man in Town (American Jazz Classics 99046), which contained the vibist's debut...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2014

Review of John Sinclair and Steve Fly: Mohawk

John Sinclair and Steve Fly: Mohawk

John Sinclair | Steve Fly

Iron Man Records

Rating: ★★★★

This CD celebrates veteran jazz, rock and second generation Beat poet John Sinclair's holy trinity of early beboppers: Parker, Gillespie...

Reviewed by Michael Horovitz in issue: August/2014

Review of Steve Khan: Subtext

Steve Khan: Subtext

Rob Mounsey | Dennis Chambers | Rubén Rodríguez | Marc Quiñones | Steve Khan | Randy Brecker | Mariana Ingold | Gil Goldstein | Bobby Allende

ESC Records

Rating: ★★★

Though he's been airing an outsized talent for four decades now, Steve Khan remains comparatively unknown over here. You've no...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2014

Review of John Coltrane: Coltrane Time

John Coltrane: Coltrane Time

Earl May | Kenny Dorham | John Coltrane | Cecil Taylor | Chuck Israels | Art Taylor | Louis Hayes

Dreamcovers Records

Rating: ★★★

Recorded on 13 October 1958, Coltrane Time album originally appeared on the United Artists label as Stereo Drive under Cecil...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2014

Review of Ralph Peterson Fo'Tet Augmented: Alive At Firehouse 12 Vol 2: Fo’ N Mo’

Ralph Peterson Fo'Tet Augmented: Alive At Firehouse 12 Vol 2: Fo’ N Mo’

Eguie Castrillo | Felix Peikli | Joseph Doubleday | Ralph Peterson | Steve Wilson | Alexander L.J. Toth

Onyx

Rating: ★★★

Peterson, a drummer to be mentioned in the same breath as the Tains of this world, has been an impressively...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2014

Review of Leon Thomas: The Blues And The Soulful Truth

Leon Thomas: The Blues And The Soulful Truth

Dick Griffin | Gordon Edwards | Carl Hall | Airto Moreira | Neal Creque | John Eckert | Bernard ‘Pretty’ Purdie | Donald Pate | Larry Coryell | Cornell Dupree

BGP

Rating: ★★★★

Along with Spirits Known And Unknown this is the classic entry in the discography of the man who was one...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2014

Review of Julie Dunn: Out Of This World

Julie Dunn: Out Of This World

Winston Clifford | Alec Dankworth | Tony Coe | John Horler | David Horler | Julie Dunn

Diving Duck Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

This third album from vocalist Julie Dunn essentially picks up where her polished second album What's It All About (2007)...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2014

Review of The Nicola Farnon Trio: Three ‘n’ Easy

The Nicola Farnon Trio: Three ‘n’ Easy

Phil Johnson | Nicola Farnon | Piero Tucci

ww.nicolafarnon.com

Rating: ★★★

Kicking off with one of her own impressive originals, ‘Perfect Loverly Day’, this fifth CD from vocalist and bassist Nicola...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2014

Review of Toshio Matsuura: Hex

Toshio Matsuura: Hex

Toshio Matsuura | Yoshito ‘P’ Koizumi | Ed Motta | Shikou Ito | Kan Sano | Midorin | Grey Reverend | Yoshie Nakano

Blue Note

Rating: ★★

Blue Note's unparalleled history as a jazz label tends to obscure the fact that it also excelled at the soulful...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2014

Review of Jon Hassell: City: Works of Fiction

Jon Hassell: City: Works of Fiction

Jon Hassell | Daniel Adam Rudolph | Jeff Rona | Gregg Arreguin

All Saints

Rating: ★★★★

Here's an intriguing complement to Dylan Howe's outstanding Subterranean. Like Howe's work, Brian Eno's aesthetic underwrites much of Hassell's vision,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2014

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