Harris Elsenstadt: Canada Day Octet
This Toronto-born drummer/composer's intriguing experimental octet has a background in both early jazz and freer collective ensemble playing, and in...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012
Micic/Abercrombie/Bernstein/Lund: Inspired
It's intriguing to compare the various aesthetics of this guitar summit of musicians from America, Norway and Serbia performing a...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017
Artistry Jazz Group: Too Darn Hot
A Swedish straightahead tribute to Cole Porter made up of 15 songs (a handful of them sung by Vivian Buczek)...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2011
Mark Wingfield/Rene Von Grunig: Cinema Obscura
A Swiss-English collaboration, one half of which is guitarist Mark Wingfield, who with UK sax original Iain Ballamy brew up...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013
Fred Lonberg-Holm: Bow Hard At The Frog
Fred Lonberg-Holm | Various Amphibians
First the esteemed double-bassist Barry Guy gets all froggy for Trost and now this? Just what is it with these...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: August/2018
Shelly Manne & His Men: Boss Sounds! – Shelly Manne & His Men At Shelly's Manne-Hole
Conte Candoli | Frank Strozier | Mike Wofford | Monty Budwig | Russ Freeman | Shelly Manne
Like his opposite East Coast number Art Blakey, Our Manne Shelly chose his sidemen wisely. This is Shelly's post-Blackhawk line-up...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2014
Tineka Postma: The Dawn of Light
Esperanza Spalding | Frans Van Der Hoeven | Marc Van Roon | Martijn Vink | Tineke Postma
The fifth album from one of Holland's most sophisticated young post-bop saxophonists, The Dawn of Light is also a notable...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2011
Billy Childs: Acceptance
Childs' last new release, 2017's Rebirth, was greeted with considerable pleasure in Jazzwise 218 and with nothing less than a...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2020
Magnus Lindgren: Stockholm Underground
This latest release from Swedish jazz flautist Magnus Lindgren is a homage to Herbie Mann, a giant of an earlier...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2017
Nette Robinson's Little Big Band: The Little Big Band Plays
Adrian Fry | Chris Nickolls | Nette Robinson | Tony Woods | Will Hyland
Formed in 2005, this debut album from Nette Robinson's Little Big Band, subtly combining the composed and the improvised, is...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2010
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