Review of Joshua Redman Quartet: Long Gone

Joshua Redman Quartet: Long Gone

Brad Mehldau | Brian Blade | Christian McBride | Joshua Redman

Editor's Choice

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

This November's EFG London Jazz Festival reunion of saxophone star Joshua Redman's quartet featuring three of the classiest sidekicks in...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2022

Review of Lukasz Pawlik: Long-Distance Connections

Lukasz Pawlik: Long-Distance Connections

Cezary Konrad | Dave Weckl | Dawid Główczewski | Gary Novak | Łukasz Pawlik | Michał Kapczuk | Mike Stern | Phil South | Randy Brecker | Szymon Kamykowski

Summit Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Originally self-released in Poland two years ago, Long-Distance Connections now gets an international release. Recorded across three continents - Pawlik’s...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2021

Review of Jake Long: City Swamp

Jake Long: City Swamp

Al MacSween | Amané Suganami | Artie Zaitz | Binker Golding | Jake Long | Nubya Garcia | Shirley Tetteh | Tamar Osborn | Tim Doyle | Twm Dylan

New Soil

Rating: ★★

Jake Long was the mastermind behind Maisha, one of the best bands to emerge out of the 'new London jazz...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: July/2024

Review of Liam Noble: The Long Game

Liam Noble: The Long Game

Liam Noble | Sebastian Rochford | Tom Herbert

Edition

Rating: ★★★★

The great UK pianist Liam Noble has performed in many guises – as an unaccompanied improviser, as an inspired covers-specialist...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2019

Review of Bobby Previte and the Visitors: Gone

Bobby Previte and the Visitors: Gone

Bobby Previte | Kurt Kotheimer | Michael Gamble | Michael Kammers

Fortune Production Fortune

Rating: ★★★

A mainstay of the 1980s downtown scene, Bobby Previte introduces a new quartet, his first touring band in a decade...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2016

Review of James Beckwith: Long Distance

James Beckwith: Long Distance

James Beckwith

Editor's Choice

Self-release

Rating: ★★★★

Keyboardist Beckwith's debut is a disarmingly dreamy suite, breaking down barriers between past and present over similarly borderless fusion sounds....

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: October/2020

Review of Myra Melford's Be Bread: The Whole Tree Gone

Myra Melford's Be Bread: The Whole Tree Gone

Ben Goldberg | Brandon Ross | Cuong Vu | Matt Wilson | Myra Melford | Stomu Takeishi

Firehouse

Rating: ★★★

While the sprinkling of uncommon instruments in the line-up – soprano guitar, acoustic bass guitar, contra-alto clarinet – partly account...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2012

Review of Mofaya!: Like One Long Dream

Mofaya!: Like One Long Dream

Aleksandar Skoric | Jaimie Branch | John Dikeman | Luke Stewart

Trost

Rating: ★★★

Something of a new generation free-jazz super group, here, featuring leading younger players: Serbian drummer Skoric and American tenor man...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2021

Review of Jackson/Long/Taylor/Tippett: Four Quartets

Jackson/Long/Taylor/Tippett: Four Quartets

Ashley-John Long | Benedict Taylor | Keith Tippett | Tom Jackson

Confront Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

For groups such as Centipede, Mujician and Tapestry, as well as for his work alongside the likes of Stan Tracey,...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: February/2017

Review of Shirley Smart: Long Story Short

Shirley Smart: Long Story Short

Demi Garcia Sabat | John Crawford | Nicolas Meier | Nikki Iles | Orphy Robinson | Shirley Smart

33 Jazz

Rating: ★★★

Shirley Smart originally trained as a classical cellist before relocating to Jerusalem, where she resided for the entire decade of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2019

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