ICP Tentet: Tetterettet
For the ICP Tentet's debut album, a crack team of Dutch improvisers from the Instant Composers Pool are bolstered not...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2019
Ahmed Abdul-Malik and Chick Ganimian: Oud Vibrations
Ahmed Abdul-Malik | Charles “Chick” Ganimian
Yusuf Lateef's 1957 album Prayer To The East is often cited as one of the first eastward investigations in jazz,...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2012
Joey Alexander: Eclipse
Eric Harland | Joey Alexander | Joshua Joshua Redman | Reuben Rogers
Even Mozart, the quintessential musical child prodigy, couldn't lay claim to two Grammy-nominated albums by the age of 14. Bali-born...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2018
Tina May meets Enrico Pieranunzi: Home Is Where The Heart Is
Enrico Pieranunzi | Tina May | Tony Coe
May is a favourite of mine, a genuine jazz vocalist who can illuminate and transform familiar themes in often quite...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2015
Nat King Cole Trio: Zurich 1950
Irving Ashby | Jack Costanzo | Joe Comfort | Nat King Cole
Cole's 1950 European tour had opened in the UK to mixed reviews. Commentators and audiences found his vocals too saccharine...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2017
Ray Gelato And The Giants: Original Flavours
Bandleader Ray Gelato has been earning his daily crust for many years with his Giants, touring widely, their music and...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2015
Evan Parker/Daunik Lazro/Joe McPhee: Seven Pieces: Live at Willisau 1995
Daunik Lazro | Evan Parker | Joe McPhee
In 1995, three of our finest saxophonists – one British, one French and one American – toured Germany, France and...
Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: March/2017
The Awakening: Hear, Sense And Feel
Although the legacy of John Coltrane, Phaorah Sanders and Yusef Lateef has been well documented in the past few decades,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2020
Redman/Mehldau/McBride/Blade: RoundAgain
Brad Mehldau | Brian Blade | Christian McBride | Joshua Redman
What could be the first supergroup of the post-pandemic era is actually the reincarnation of Joshua Redman's original mid-1990s quartet....
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020
The Jack Davies Big Band: The Jack Davis Big Band
This trio of releases from 26-year-old trumpeter-and-more Jack Davies constitute an impressive calling card. Davies won the Deutsche Bank award...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2012
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