Reviews
Chick Webb/Ella Fitzgerald: Complete Decca Sessions (1934-1941)
Many famous drummers paid tribute, both verbally and in their playing, to Chick Webb (born February 1909, dead from tuberculosis...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2014
Abdullah Ibrahim: African Piano
Done on one of Ibrahim's return visits to Copenhagen's Montmartre, where the Dollar Brand Trio had been recorded for Fontana/Black...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2014
Louise Gibbs and The Septet: 7 Deadly Sings
Hot on the heels of Soweto Kinch's The Legend of Mike Smith, comes another jazz treatment of the Seven Deadly...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2014
Album Interview: John McLaughlin and the 4th Dimension: The Boston Record
Étienne M’Bappé | Ranjit Barot | Gary Husband | John McLaughlin
Recorded during the summer of last year, this is the second album by this version of 4th Dimension and numbers...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2014
Josh Kemp: Tone Poetry
Richard Barr | Spencer Brown | Tim Lapthorn | Josh Kemp | Jon Scott | Mick Hutton
The saxophonist and composer Josh Kemp is a member of the E17 Jazz Collective, one of the more dedicated beboppers...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014
Tom Scott: Tom Scott & The L.A. Express/Tom Cat/New York Connection
A three-CDs-for-one package that captures the heady time when rock, jazz and, lummee, commercial success briefly coalesced. The eponymous debut...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2014
Revolutionary Snake Ensemble: Live Snakes
From concerts recorded in 2011 and 2013, this Boston-based collective run by the saxophonist Ken Field (with guests Josh Roseman...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014
Diego Barber + Craig Taborn: Tales
The Lanzarote-born, New York-based acoustic guitarist's duo partner is at the vanguard of cutting-edge jazz but shows his adaptive nature...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014
Frank Wess: Magic 201
Frank Wess | Rufus Reid | Russell Malone | Wynard Harper | Kenny Barron
Kansas City tenorman Frank Wess, who died last October at the grand old age of 91, was best known for...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: May/2014
Jimmy Smith Quartet: Back at the Chicken Shack/Midnight Special
Stanley Turrentine | Kenny Burrell | Donald Bailey | Jimmy Smith
The Hammond organ sound may be a commonplace part of today's musical landscape, but t'were not ever thus. At a...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: May/2014

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