Review of Rob Barron: What's In Store…

Rob Barron: What's In Store…

Colin Oxley | Jeremy Brown | Joshua Morrison | Rob Barron

self-released

Rating: ★★★★

Barron, a busy presence on the local scene, has chosen well for both the pieces to play and the musicians...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Review of Christophe Monniot: Jericho Sinfonia

Christophe Monniot: Jericho Sinfonia

Adrien Chennebault | Alan Regardin | Alexis Persigan | Christophe Monniot | Florian Satche | Gabriel Lemaire | Guillaume Aknine | Jean-Baptiste Lacou | Quentin Biardeau | Roberto Negro

Ayler Records

Rating: ★★★

Jericho Sinfonia is an ambitiously diverse, high-concept work by the French saxophonist Christophe Monniot. With the title referencing the biblical...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Feb/2019

Review of Nguyên Lê with Michael Gibbs and NDR Bigband: Celebrating The Dark Side Of The Moon

Nguyên Lê with Michael Gibbs and NDR Bigband: Celebrating The Dark Side Of The Moon

Gary Husband | Jörg Achim Keller | Jürgen Attig | Nguyên Lê | Vladyslav Sendecki | Youn Sun Nah

ACT

Rating: ★★★

Sam Yahel, of Josh Redman's Elastic band, had a good instrumental crack at Dark Side, and now Nguyên Lê sets...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Review of Geri Allen, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian: In the Year of the Dragon

Geri Allen, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian: In the Year of the Dragon

Charlie Haden | Geri Allenn | Juan Lazaro Mendolas | Paul Motian

Winter & Winter

Rating: ★★★

In the days when the Arts Council were a much more active component of the UK jazz scene, they mounted...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2024

Review of Die Like A Dog: Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler

Die Like A Dog: Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler

Hamid Drake | Peter Brötzmann | Toshinori Kondo | William Parker

Cien Fuegos

Rating: ★★★★

From his earliest days, the late Peter Brötzmann’s tenor tone was routinely compared to that of Albert Ayler, and there...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2024

Review of Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine

Keith Jarrett & Charlie Haden: Jasmine

Charlie Haden | Keith Jarrett

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

Jarrett and Haden may not have played together for thirty years, since Jarrett wound-up his American Quartet with Haden, Dewey...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2010

Review of Broken Shadows

Broken Shadows

Chris Speed | Dave King | Reid Anderson | Tim Berne

Intakt Records

Rating: ★★★★

Paying homage to Ornette Coleman isn’t something new for The Bad Plus, of which this band contains three - yes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2021

Review of Faith Brackenbury: KnifeAngel

Faith Brackenbury: KnifeAngel

Alex Maguire | Faith Brackenbury | Martin Speake | Oli Hayhurst | Rob Luft | Will Glaser

Lonely Duck (CD)

Rating: ★★★

Brackenbury's prolific, post-motherhood output over the past decade finds inspiration here in Alfie Bradley's ‘Knife Angel’, a giant sculpture of...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: August/2019

Review of Out To Dinner: Episodes Of Grace

Out To Dinner: Episodes Of Grace

Behn Gillace | Boris Kozlov | Patrick Cornelius | Rudy Royston | Ryan Keberle

Posi-Tone PR8228

Rating: ★★★★

The group name is obviously meant to imply a more filling repast than Dolphy’s famous Out To Lunch!, which of...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2022

Review of Miguel Zenón: Law Years: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

Miguel Zenón: Law Years: The Music Of Ornette Coleman

Miguel Zenon

Miel Music/Bandcamp

Rating: ★★★

Over 20 years, award-winning altoist Zenón has made a number of albums that celebrate his Puerto Rican heritage, but he...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2021

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