Review of Barry Green Trio: Almost There

Barry Green Trio: Almost There

Barry Green | Drew Gress | Tom Rainey

Mole Tone

Rating: ★★★★

The pianist Barry Green has self-produced a handful of enterprising recordings for his Mole Tone label that are testament to...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2017

Review of Avishai Cohen: Duende

Avishai Cohen: Duende

Avishai Cohen | Nitai Hershkovits

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★★

The charismatic double bassist Avishai Cohen has proved one of the biggest contemporary draws on the jazz club and international...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Review of Andrew McCormack Trio: Live in London

Andrew McCormack Trio: Live in London

Chet Baker | Jim Richardson | John Horler | Tony Mann

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

Released in digital download and on video only, Live in London is the pianist Andrew McCormack's second trio album...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Review of Andrew McCormack: Graviton

Andrew McCormack: Graviton

Andrew McCormack | Anton Eger | Eska | Ralph Wyld | Rob Mullarkey | Shabaka Hutchings

Jazz Village

Rating: ★★★★

The words classy and eloquent immediately spring to mind when you listen to the 39-year-old pianist Andrew McCormack. Having graduated...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2017

Review of Aaron Parks: Arborescence

Aaron Parks: Arborescence

Aaron Parks

ECM

Rating: ★★★

Aaron Parks is a young pianistcomposer who has very gradually grown in stature since his teenage years in Terence Blanchard's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Review of Emily Francis Trio: Luma

Emily Francis Trio: Luma

Emily Francis | Jamie Murray | Trevor Boxall

Bridge The Gap

Rating: ★★★

It’s been a while since the Emily Francis Trio’s debut The Absent (2015), and Luma’s leap forward illustrates the ever-morphing...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2022

Review of Zhenya Strigalev: Smiling Organizm

Zhenya Strigalev: Smiling Organizm

Eric Harland | Larry Grenadier | Liam Noble | Tim Lefebvre | Tim LeFebvre | Vitaly Golovnev | Zhenya Strigalev

Whirlwind

Rating: ★★★

London-based Zhenya Strigalev has something of the spirit of the wild men of the bebop alto horn about his playing....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2012

Review of Aaron Parks: Little Big III

Aaron Parks: Little Big III

Aaron Parks | David Ginyard Jr | Greg Tuohey | Jongkuk Kim

Editor's Choice

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★★

You have to go all the way back to 2008 for the last time pianist Aaron Parks released an album...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2024

Review of Elliot Galvin: Punch

Elliot Galvin: Punch

Elliot Galvin | Simon Roth | Tom McCredie

Edition

Rating: ★★★★

On his self-assured second album Punch, the gifted young artist and pianist-composer Elliot Galvin fulfils the promise of his 2014...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016

Review of Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus

Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus

Doug Watkins | Max Roach | Paul Chambers | Percy Heath | Philly Joe Jones | Ray Brown | Roy Haynes | Shelly Manne | Sonny Clark | Sonny Rollins

Jazz Images

Rating: ★★★★★

Well, now you’re talking. All criticism of reissue illustration (e.g. the “images”, in this case by Francis Wolff) or presentation...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020

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