Reviews
Michael Bates: One From None
Michael Bates | Jeff Davis | Russ Lossing | Michael Blake | Samuel Blaser
The final piece on this album ‘It Began To Get Dark’ is, whether intentionally or not, something of a leitmotiv...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2013
Trio Elf: Amsterdam
A live recording by a piano trio featuring drummer Gerwin Eisenhauer, pianist Walter Lang and bassist Sven Faller that introduces...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013
Pat Thomas/Dominic Lash/Mark Sanders: Skip
Mark Sanders | Dominic Lash | Pat Thomas
On the face of it, this live album captures three British musicians reinterpreting a stack of standards by a pantheon...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2013
Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, Steve Swallow: Trios
Andy Sheppard | Carla Bley | Steve Swallow
It is quite probable that Carla Bley has lost count of the number of people who have recorded her compositions,...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2013
Africando: Viva Africando
Africando are one of the greatest salsa orchestras on the planet, and one way overdue their dues. The sprawling line...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2013
Mack Avenue Superband: Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival
Or a super-group jam session featuring some of the leading lights of this classy mainstream jazz label live in its...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013
Teddi King: The Storyville Sessions
A reminder of King’s lovely voice with two bands of regulars at George Wein’s Boston club in the mid-1950s, of...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013
Kevin Fitzsimmons: Show Me the Way
This recording by the London-based crooner Kevin Fitzsimmons could hardly be called unusual, but in one respect it actually is....
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013
Clifford Jordan: Spellbound/Starting Time/Bearcat
Twenty-two tracks from Jordan at his aggressive best in the early 1960s, ideally supported by the late Cedar Walton and...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013
Milt Buckner: Mighty High/Midnight Mood
Organ jazz by Buckner at the height of his powers, aided by Kenny Burrell on the first of the two...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013

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