Reviews
Susan Clynes: Life is…
A Belgian singer-songwriter/pianist with an approach somewhere between Patti Smith and Tori Amos, on a rather crude live recording made...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014
Little Feat: Rad Gumbo: The Complete Warner Bros years 1971-1990
Time Loves A Hero proclaims the title of Little Feat's sixth album, but time has clearly not loved the band's...
Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: May/2014
Nina Kristofferson: Billie Holiday Story
Currently on tour with her one-woman musical theatre portrayal of Billie Holiday's life, here she presents her derivative versions of...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014
Jazz Crusaders: At The Lighthouse '62
A storming live session from Joe Sample, Wayne Henderson and the chaps in front of a boisterous crowd at the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble: Step Wide, Step Deep
Otto Fischer | Alexander Hawkins | Neil Charles | Shabaka Hutchings | Tom Skinner | Dylan Bates
If you've been keeping an ear to the ground (as well as to jazz on the radio) in the past...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014
Sam Rivers: Contrasts
Dave Holland | George Lewis | Thurman Barker | Sam Rivers
The title is not superficial. Indeed in light of other works (Contours, Colors, Hints On Light And Shadow), it captures...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2014
Resolution 88
This Cambridge-based synth-y jazz funk band recorded with the Headhunters sound in mind and does a good job of it....
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014
Billy Bottle & The Multiple: Unrecorded Beam
Mystical reflections on England's green and pleasant land might have gone out of fashion after 1970s prog rock but the...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014
Tom Guarna: Rush
Orlando Le Fleming | Danny Grissett | Tom Guarna | Johnathan Blake | Joel Frahm | Orlando le Fleming
Fresh, high-energy and inventive, this is postmodern straight-ahead instrumental jazz by a dedicated team of young veterans who work and...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: May/2014
Howard McGhee: Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out/House Warmin'
McGhee in 1962 blowing with assurance and taking the spotlight on a quartet album as well as co-fronting an energetic...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2014

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