Reviews
Taylor Eigsti: Plot Armor
Taylor Eigsti is a Californian-born pianist-composer living in New York, who’s been turning heads with his wittily effervescent piano contributions...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2024
Finn Rees: Dawn is a Melody
Tasmania, Australia’s island state, is a place of clean air, rugged forests, and wind-whipped beaches, where gnarly trees jut from...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2024
Oregon: Treffpunkt Jazz Ludwigsburg 1990
Trilok Gurtu | Glen Moore | Ralph Towner | Paul McCandless
This is the second iteration of Oregon, formed three years after the death of founder-member Collin Wallcott in 1984. Gurtu’s...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2024
Jasmine Myra: Rising
Jasmine Myra’s music is reasonably considered spiritual jazz, a presumption invited by her presence on Matthew Halsall’s Gondwana label, whose...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2024
John O’Gallagher: Beast
João Lencastre | John O’Gallagher | Zé Almedia | Samuel Gapp
Lisbon has a dynamic avant-garde scene and the capital of Portugal is also beautiful, not to mention relatively cheaper than...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2024
Manne up!: Shelly Manne & His Men: Live at the Blackhawk Vol. 1
Monty Budwig | Joe Gordon | Richie Kamunca | Shelly Manne | Victor Feldman
Excellent jazz from the ongoing Contemporary/Craft reissue series, here highlighting one of the leading figures of West Coast jazz, drummer...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2024
The Louis Stewart Trio: Louis The First
Louis Stewart | Martin Walshe | John Wadham
Local-boy-made-good, and Ireland’s most high-status jazz musician, Louis Stewart (1944-2016) worked first in Dublin showbands, and then built a jazz...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2024
Harold Land: The Fox
Frank Butler | Herbie Lewis | Harold Land | Elmo Hope | Dupree Bolton
A classic of what West Coast jazz authority Robert Gordon once dubbed ‘California Hard’, The Fox is a record with...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: June/2024
Jamie Baum: What Times Are These
Jamie Baum’s fifth recording with her incredible Septet+ ensemble sees the New York-based flute player and composer dipping her toes...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2024
Cal Tjader: Huracán
After spells with Dave Brubeck and George Shearing, vibraphonist, occasional drummer and bandleader Cal Tjader devoted himself to Latin and...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2024
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