Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Thomas Morgan, Andrew Cyrille: Taking Turns
Andrew Cyrille | Bill Frisell | Jakob Bro | Jason Moran | Lee Konitz | Thomas Morgan
It’s amazing to think that Lee Konitz, with his distinctively questioning, interior sound, played with Miles and Mulligan at the...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: December/2024
Album Interview: The Bad Plus: Complex Emotions
Ben Monder | Chris Speed | Dave King | Reid Anderson
The closest forerunner to the newest incarnation of the iconoclastic The Bad Plus –founder members Reid Anderson and Dave King...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/2024
Zacc Harris: Chasing Shadows
Brandon Wozniak | Bryan Nichols | Chris Bates | Pete James Johnson | Zacc Harris
Zacc Harris is a Minneapolis-based guitarist with a clean, soft-edged sound, that refers back to Metheny and before him to...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: December/2024
Al Jarreau & NDR Bigband: Ellington
Al Jarreau | Jörg Achim Keller | NDR Bigband
Lovingly performed, beautifully recorded, and possessing that singularly Jarreauesque joyousness throughout, in these and many other ways it would be...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: December/2024
McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson: Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’
Henry Grimes | Jack DeJohnette | Joe Henderson | McCoy Tyner
The partnership between Tyner and Henderson had developed in the studio in the years leading up to this live session,...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/2024
Alabaster DePlume: A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole
Saxophonist, composer and poet DePlume displayed a remarkable capacity for writing minimal tunes filled with deeply moving melodies on his...
Reviewed by Ammar Kalia in issue: April/2025
Dave Manington’s Riff Raff: Weightless
Brigitte Beraha | Dave Manington | Ivo Neame | Rob Updegraff | Tim Giles | Tom Challenger
Riff Raff emerged out of North London’s Loop Collective and E17 Jazz, for whom Manington was an original member. Their...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2025
Charles Mingus: In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts
Charles Mingus | Dannie Richmond | Jack Walrath | Ricky Ford | Robert Neloms
Just two years before he went to the great chair in the sky Charles Mingus was still making the earth...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2025
Gaspare Pasini: Pepper Legacy: Complete Recordings
Carl Burnett | Essiet Okon Essiet | Gaspare Pasini | George Cables
Thirty-one years after Art Pepper’s death, Italian saxophonist Gaspare Pasini brought his Pepper Legacy quartet to play for an appreciative...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2025
Kjetil Mulelid Trio: And Now
Andreas Winther | Kjetil Mulelid | Rune Nergaard
This is the fourth album by Mulelid’s trio, the previous three albums on Rune Grammofon. Their debut from 2017, Not...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2025
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