JC Sanford Orchestra: Views for the Inside
The 12 tracks in this left-field mix of orchestral blast and chamber music subtlety include the waltz ‘Robins in Snow’,...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2014
Beledo: Dreamland Mechanism
Beledo | Cucu Kurnia | Doron Lev | Endang Ramdan | Gary Husband | Lincoln Goines | Tony Steele
Beledo has the kind of virtuosic multi-instrumental skills that leave lesser mortals aghast: so lucky he has in Goines and...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2016
Vyacheslav Ganelin, Alexey Kruglov, Oleg Yudanov: Russian New Music in China: Live In Shenzhen
Alexey Kruglov | Oleg Yudanov | Vyacheslav Ganelin
It all began with a phone call, the cooking of borsch and a mysterious guest with, we are told in...
Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016
Artemis
It would be difficult to imagine a finer introduction to their music than this self-titled debut album from international supergroup...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2020
Billy Hart: All Our Reasons
Ben Street | Billy Hart | Ethan Iverson | Mark Turner
Drummer Billy Hart started off in the 1960s bands of Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery, then contributed to such jazz...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2012
Shirley Horn: Embers And Ashes/Where Are You Going
Al Gafa | Harry Saunders | Joe Benjamin | Shirley Horn
For fans of Shirley Horn's superslow ballad singing, Christmas has come early in the form of this digitally remastered twofer....
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2012
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Collectors Edition
Just for the record, 2010 was the 40th Anniversary year of Bitches Brew, you haven't woken up in a time...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2015
Emma Smith: The Huntress
Andy Ball | Emma Smith | Matt Robinson | Stan Sulzmann | Tim Thornton
There's so much to recommend in this debut album from vocalist Emma Smith, it's difficult to know where to start....
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2012
Digby Fairweather: Notes From A Jazz Life Volume 2
The first volume of Digby’s career retrospective was reviewed in Jazzwise 251 (May 2020); now comes Volume Two. Again it’s...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue: Zero Grasses: Ritual For The Losses
Since her emergence as a vital member of Steve Coleman's bands in the 2010s, vocalist Jen Shyu has gone on...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2021
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