Reviews
Leo Genovese: Forward
New York–based, Argentinian-born pianist and keyboardist Leo Genovese has produced consistently fascinating work as leader and sideman for over two...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2024
Gerry Mulligan Quartet: Spring in Stockholm: Live at Konserthuset 1959
Bill Crow | Dave Bailey | Art Farmer | Gerry Mulligan
The quartet Gerry Mulligan fronted with Art Farmer from April 1958 until the late summer of 1959 was, according to...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2024
Artie Zaitz: The Regulator
Ross Stanley | Fausta Joly | Dave Pattman | Steve Brown | Artie Zaitz
Zaitz flows across the frets with such fluency that it’s almost too easy to file his debut under ‘fun’ but...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2024
New Jazz Orchestra/Neil Ardley Group: BBC Sessions 1968-1970
Neil Ardley would have been pleasantly surprised with the emergence of work that he thought had disappeared into the ether...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2024
Avishai Cohen: Brightlight
One of the challenges confronting the modern mega-player is how to deploy their awesome musical accomplishments in a way that...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: November/2024
The Necks: Bleed
Tony Buck | Lloyd Swanton | Chris Abrams
What can I say? What is there to say? It’s The Necks. You’ll either get it – and like it...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: November/2024
Thom Rotella: Side Hustle
US guitarist and composer Rotella, now 73, rarely ventures into jazz, having been immersed very fruitfully in the Hollywood studios...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2024
Phil Bancroft Trio: Swings and Roundabouts
Phil Bancroft | Marcello Pellitterri | Steve Watts
A privilege of streaming your own material is the control it offers to re-visit releases that a label may delete....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2024
David Preston: Purple/Black Volume 2
David Preston | Sebastian Rochford | Kevin Glasgow | Kit Downs
Contemporary guitarist David Preston wears his influences – Frisell? Metheny? Holdsworth? – lightly throughout this album’s second helping of tunes...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: November/2024
Leif Maine and Jackson Mathod: Volte-Face
Thomas Leif Maine | Jackson Mathod | Christopher Summer | Ajene James Davis
Volte-Face is the sound of Tulse Hill, South London - very 2020s, drifting, ambient, the shape of its compositions often...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: November/2024
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