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

Album Interview: Nikki Iles: Hush

Jeff Williams | Nikki Iles | Rufus Reid

This is a lovely disc from a perennially underrated – though far from unknown – British pianist. Here Nikki Iles...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2012

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: Just Coolin’

Art Blakey | Bobby Timmons | Hank Mobley | Jymie Merritt | Lee Morgan

Now here's what you call an archival gold nugget!A rediscovered studio recording by the short-lived spring 1959 edition of Blakey's...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: July/2020

Album Interview: Marius Neset & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra: Lion

Daniel Herskedal | Eirik Hegdal | Eivind Lønning | Erik Eilertsen | Erik Johannesen | Espen Berg | Gard Nilssen | Hanna Paulsberg | Ingrid Neset | Jovan Pavlovic

The 29-year-old Norwegian saxophonist/composer Marius Neset has been heralded as a new breed of big tenor players in a lineage...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014

Album Interview: Georgia Mancio: Silhouette

This third studio release from Georgia Mancio is as thoughtful, assiduously crafted and lovingly realized an album as you'll hear...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2014

Peter & Will Anderson: Clarinet Summit

David Wong | Ken Peplowski | Kenny Washington | Paquito D'Rivera | Peter Anderson | Tardo Hammer | Will Anderson

Here's the Danish-owned SteepleChase label dipping into the current New York swing scene rather than pursuing its more usual hard-bop...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2017