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Jazz album reviews with Chris Searle: February 17, 2025
New releases from The Jim Mullen Quartet, Caroline Kraabel/John Edwards, and Matthew Muneses/Riza Printup

Jim Mullen Quartet
For Heaven’s Sake
(Stunt Records)

★★★★

 

THE veteran Glaswegian guitarist Jim Mullen is on swinging form here. Recorded in Copenhagen with an organ trio, he plays an eclectic range of tunes from The Touch of Your Lips, Ellington’s Caravan and Bobby Timmons’ This Here, to unlikely versions of Swanee River and When in Rome.

Accompanied by Ben Paterson’s organ, Kristian Leth’s drums and the Paul Gonsalves-inspired tenor saxophone of Jan Harbeck, Mullen’s appetite for melody and lyricism is in full fettle.

Caroline Kraabel/John Edwards
Sparrow Dance
(Crosshatch Records)

★★★★★


Matthew Muneses/Riza Printup
PAG-IBIG KO Vol.1 
(Irabbagast Records)

★★★★★

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