The Owl Ensemble: Owl
The urge to combine classical music and jazz never seems to go away: recently in UK jazz we’ve seen the...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012
Sachal Vasandani & Romain Collin: Midnight Shelter
Romain Collin | Sachal Vasandani
US vocalist Sachal Vasandani and French pianist Romain Collin, both now adopted New Yorkers as well as friends and neighbours,...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2021
Blueblut: Hurts so Gut
With song titles such as ‘Fuckhead Toothbrush’ you know you're in for a treat in the quirky company of leading...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014
Vienna Art Orchestra: The Minimalism Of Erik Satie
The employment of his music in adverts for chocolate and throat lozenges has not done much for the contemporary reputation...
Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: June/2011
Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet: Goldbrun
Gulli Gudmunsson | Joost Lijbaart | Wolfert Brederode | Yuri Honing
In 2018, there’s nothing new in jazz musicians presenting versions of post-Beatles pop tunes. You might even say it’s the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2018
Don Pullen: Richard's Tune
Apart from his self-produced duo recordings with drummer Milford Graves, this was Pullen's first album under his own name, done...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2014
Teresa Brewer: The Songs Of Bessie Smith/It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
Count Basie | Duke Ellington | Teresa Brewer | Thad Jones
As the jazz critic Nat Hentoff writes in the original liner notes, “I can't recall any evolution quite like that...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2015
Kazemde George: I Insist
Adam Arruda | Isaac Wilson | Kazemde George | Sami Stevens | Tyron Allen II
Brooklyn-based now, George is a Caribbean American saxophonist from Berkeley, California, who says these 10 compositions reflect the ‘experiences, circumstances...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2021
Nabatov, Reijseger, Schubert: Square Down
European master musicians, of both a free and more lyrical jazz, share musical ideas, either energetic or ruminative in sonic...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012
Graham Bleasdale: I Believe
This attractive sounding British singer-songwriter, with influences from old soul-pop through to gospel and country, is backed by British jazz...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
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