Review of Artemis

Artemis

Allison Miller | Anat Cohen | Cécile McLorin Salvant | Ingrid Jensen | Melissa Aldana | Noriko Ueda | Renee Rosnes

Editor's Choice

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Billy Hart: All Our Reasons

Billy Hart: All Our Reasons

Ben Street | Billy Hart | Ethan Iverson | Mark Turner

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Shirley Horn: Embers And Ashes/Where Are You Going

Shirley Horn: Embers And Ashes/Where Are You Going

Al Gafa | Harry Saunders | Joe Benjamin | Shirley Horn

American Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Miles Davis: Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Collectors Edition

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew 40th Anniversary Collectors Edition

Chick Corea | Dave Holland | Don Alias | Harvey Brooks | Jack DeJohnette | Joe Zawinul | Lenny White | Miles Davis | Wayne Shorter

Editor's Choice

Columbia/Legacy

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Emma Smith: The Huntress

Emma Smith: The Huntress

Andy Ball | Emma Smith | Matt Robinson | Stan Sulzmann | Tim Thornton

Frantic Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Digby Fairweather: Notes From A Jazz Life Volume 2

Digby Fairweather: Notes From A Jazz Life Volume 2

Alistair Allen | Andy Leggett | Barney Bates | Bobby Worth | Brian Lemon | Bruce Turner | Chris Ellis | Chris Gower | Collin Bates | Craig Milverton

Acrobat

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue: Zero Grasses: Ritual For The Losses

Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue: Zero Grasses: Ritual For The Losses

Jen Shyu

Pi Records

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Heinz Sauer/Michael Wollny: Don't Explain: Live in Concert

Heinz Sauer/Michael Wollny: Don't Explain: Live in Concert

Heinz Sauer | Michael Wollny

ACT

Rating: ★★★★

Context is all, and from his dynamic collaboration with Eva Kruse and Eric Schaefer in the trio [em] to his...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2013

Review of Marc Cary: Life Lessons

Marc Cary: Life Lessons

Dan Chmielinski | Diego Joaquin Ramirez | Marc Cary

Sessionheads United

Rating: ★★★

Marc Cary, the Washington-raised New York pianist and composer, who turned an unusual jazz apprenticeship on DC's funky Go-Go dance...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2021

Review of Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Bobby Kapp: Heptagon

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Bobby Kapp: Heptagon

Bobby Kapp | Brandon Lopez | Gerald Cleaver | Ivo Perelman | Jeff Cosgrove | Joe Hertenstein | Matthew Shipp | Nate Wooley | William Parker

Leo

Rating: ★★★★

Most jazz musicians worry about where their next album is coming from, but Ivo Perelman isn’t most jazz musicians and,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

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