Reviews

Review of Album Interview: Jamie Saft: The New Standard

Album Interview: Jamie Saft: The New Standard

Jamie Saft | Bobby Previte | Steve Swallow

RareNoiseRecords

Rating: ★★★

Pianist/keyboardist Jamie Saft is pretty much the quintessence of the iconoclastic downtown New York jazz musician, if such a thing...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Review of Hampton Hawes: Three Classic Albums Plus

Hampton Hawes: Three Classic Albums Plus

Avid

Rating: ★★★★

The 3LP All Night Session has had numerous reissues (notably from Definitive) and here it's paired with nine-tenths of the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019

Review of Dorothy Ashby: Four Classic Albums Plus

Dorothy Ashby: Four Classic Albums Plus

Avid Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

If jazz harp is your thing, then this is a cornucopia of delight, especially a session with Frank Wess, featuring...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Review of Grover Washington Jr.: All My Tomorrows/Soulful Strut/Breath of Heaven

Grover Washington Jr.: All My Tomorrows/Soulful Strut/Breath of Heaven

BGO

Rating: ★★★

Three final albums from Washington, who was beginning to emerge from typecasting to explore all areas of jazz before his...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2014

Review of Sarah Manning: Harmonious Creature

Sarah Manning: Harmonious Creature

Positone

Rating: ★★★

An East coast-based guitarist, mentored by recently departed world jazz pioneer Yusef Lateef, and her quintet (featuring viola) has a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Review of Sonar Static: Motion

Sonar Static: Motion

Cuneiform

Rating: ★★★

Swiss-Based tritone guitarist Stephan Thelen is a dedicated King Crimson-ite and with his quartet Sonar, explores hypnotic pattern-based music for...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Review of Daniel Szabo: A Song From There

Daniel Szabo: A Song From There

Dszingabom Music

Rating: ★★★

In a trio featuring drummer Peter Erskine, this graceful Hungarian LA-based pianist-composer draws heavily on his east European folk and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Review of Neil Cowley Trio: Touch and Flee

Neil Cowley Trio: Touch and Flee

Neil Cowley | Evan Jenkins | Rex Horan

Naim

Rating: ★★★★

As with another widely admired piano trio, The Necks, Neil Cowley Trio tends to get coverage in the jazz media...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Review of Quincy Jones: Four Classic Albums Plus

Quincy Jones: Four Classic Albums Plus

Avid Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

If you don't have the reissues of This is How I Feel and Great Wide World from Fresh Sound, Pollwinners,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Review of BEJE: Live at the Fringe

BEJE: Live at the Fringe

Beje

Rating: ★★

Billed as the best European musicians working in Bristol, this quintet run by Swiss-English saxophonist David Mowat share diverse interests...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

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