Reviews
Miroslav Vitous Group:
Miroslav Vitous | Jan Christensen | Kenny Kirkland | John Surman
What startles here is the piano playing of Kirkland. Barely 25, he has a kick-ass attitude mixed with the vet's...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2014
Andrea Motis and Joan Chamorro Quintet featuring Scott Hamilton: Live at Jamboree Barcelona
Scott Hamilton | Ignasi Terraza | Josep Traver | Andrea Motis | Esteve Pi | Joan Chamorro
This is Motis's album in effect, her sweet-sounding vocals a constant feature as is her bright-sounding trumpet, boppish in tone...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2014
Lonnie Liston Smith: Astral Travelling
Although his role as Pharoah Sanders' sideman partly explains his immersion in the ‘spiritual jazz’ of the late 1960s, Smith...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2014
Dhafer Youssef: Birds Requiem
Recorded primarily in Sweden – hence the line-up of names familiar to Scandinavian jazz lovers – this beautiful, delicate offering...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2014
Joachim Kühn: 70th Birthday Edition: Trio Kühn Humair Jenny-Clark/Europeana
Now 70, Kühn's achievements are rightly being celebrated by the ACT label, and although it is doubtful that they will...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2014
Ben Webster: The Warm Moods
I've just been gazing wistfully at a flyer for Dopey Dick's Jazzhouse in West Hampstead. On three separate Wednesdays in...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2014
Ben Webster Quartet: Live In Hilversum 1970
John Engels | Cees Slinger | Rob Langereis | Ben Webster
I've just been gazing wistfully at a flyer for Dopey Dick's Jazzhouse in West Hampstead. On three separate Wednesdays in...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2014
Donald Byrd/Pepper Adams: Motor City Scene
Out years ago on the Charly imprint, this classic of Detroit jazz is a welcome reissue as part of Naxos...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014
Dave Stryker: Eight Track
In 1975 this NYC-based guitarist was listening to plenty of pop (as well as jazz) on his eight-track tape player...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014
Grant Green: Goin' West/Feelin' The Spirit
Two Blue Note albums in their entirety together with a bonus off the Sonny Clark Quartets album – for guitar...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014

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