Reviews
Duke Pearson: Prairie Dog
Part of the Japanese reissue series, this features Pearson and saxophonist Harold Vick in a number of slightly different settings:...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014
Olivier Bogé: The World Begins Today
Tigran Hamasyan | Olivier Bogé | Jeff Ballard | Sam Minaie
Olivier Bogé, a young French saxophonist-composer, has assembled a tasty looking line up for his debut that includes the Brad...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014
Jacques Schwarz-Bart: Jazz Racine Haiti
An underrated Guadeloupe tenor saxophonist with an earthy pan- Caribbean reach to his music gives good value, basing his new...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014
Oscar Pettiford: Modern Quintet
Miserly playing time makes this oddball session from OP, playing cello and bass, with Julius Watkins on French horn, more...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014
Howard Alden/Andy Brown Quartet: Heavy Artillery
Following15 years of collaboration, this pair of consummate guitarists from New York and Chicago respectively, trades warm Djangoinspired bebop licks...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2014
The Universal Quartet: Light
Adam Rudolph | Yusef Lateef | Kasper Tranberg
‘Universal’ is a term indelibly associated with the likes of Albert Ayler and John Coltrane, and its use in the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2014
Joe Zawinul: Zawinul
Please don't call this the first Weather Report album. Yes, there's a personnel overlap. But the differences, notably Shaw's trumpet,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2014
Phineas Newborn Jr: Here Is Phineas
Terrifi c release of Newborn’s 1956 ‘Piano Artistry’ album with solo pyrotechnics mixed with the trio of Pettiford and Clarke....
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014
Blue Mitchell & Orchestra: Smooth Is The Wind/A Sure Thing
Junior Cook and Blue Mitchell made up the front line of Horace Silver's wildly successful Quintet which between 1958 and...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2014
Robert Wyatt: '68
Jimi Hendrix | Mike Ratledge | Robert Wyatt
Robert himself isn't keen on the ‘drummer biped’ decade leading up to the 1973 accident that left him paraplegic, and...
Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: March/2014

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