Anderskov Accident: Full Circle

An award-winning pianist and composer, Denmark's Jacob Anderskov has released 15 albums as a leader over the past decade or...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: August/2016

Simon Phillips: Protocol III

Andy Timmons | Ernest Tibbs | Satnam Singh Ramgotra | Simon Phillips | Steve Weingart

By all the saints percussive, how much fun must it be to be Phillips and get paid for whacking things...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Dolo Coker: California Hard

Art Pepper | Blue Mitchell | Dolo Coker | Frank Butler | Leroy Vinnegar

Two important points are made here. As the title suggests, the West Coast was never reducible to ‘cool’ or rather,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2016

Ryan Quigley: What Doesn't Kill You

Clarence Penn | Michael Janisch | Paul Booth | Ryan Quigley | Steve Hamilton

The busy and versatile trumpeter has assembled a fine band of like-minded musicians. Enlisting Penn, described by Drummerworld as “one...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Elephant9 with Reine Fiske: Silver Mountain

Nikolai Hængsle Eilertsen | Reine Fiske | Ståle Storløkken | Torstein Lofthus

There's no denying the thrusting vitality charging through the snaking chicanes conjured by this formidable fusion unit – essentially a...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: October/2015

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers: Caravan/Buhaina's Delight

Art Blakey | Cedar Walton | Curtis Fuller | Freddie Hubbard | Jymie Merritt | Reggie Workman | Wayne Shorter

Eagle-eyed Jazzwise readers will note that I did an almighty blitz on Messengers releases by this lineup, not too long...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2014

Album Interview: Van Morrison: Born to Sing: No Plan B

Alistair White | Christopher White | Dave Keary | Jeff Lardner | Paul Moore | Paul Moran | Van Morrison

Van Morrison has jazz in his blood, only a fool would think otherwise, and Born to Sing is the latest...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: October/2012

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Jeff Cosgrove: Live In Baltimore

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

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

Mark Lewandowski: Under One Sky

Addison Frei | Kush Abadey | Mark Lewandowski

Young British bassist/composer Mark Lewandowski made a striking album debut with Waller, in 2017 - dedicated to the 1930s piano...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Michael Gibbs and the NDR Big Band: Play A Bill Frisell Set List

Adam Nussbaum | Bill Frisell | Christof Lauer | Claus Stotter | Dan Gottshall | Fiete Felsch | Frank Delle | Gene Calderazzo | Ingmar Heller | Ingolf Burkhardt

Two significant and, more importantly, outrageously enjoyable releases from three parties whose relationship goes back four decades. The only wonder...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2015