Various Artists: Directions In Music 1969 to 1973: Miles Davis, His Musicians And The Birth Of A New Age Of Jazz
The premise of this intriguing compilation is to illustrate how Miles Davis' 1970 LP Bitches Brew was the culmination of...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2021
Alex Sipiagin Quintet: Mel's Vision
Alex Sipiagin | Chris Potter | David Kikoski | Johnathan Blake | Matt Brewer
Sipiagin is a Criss Cross regular, often with Potter alongside, his many recordings a tribute to his mastery of the...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2023
“A” Trio & AMM: AAMM
Eddie Prevost | John Tilbury | Mazen Kerbaj | Raed Yassin | Sharif Sehnaoui
This collaboration between remaining AMM members Eddie Prevost and John Tilbury and Lebanese group “A” Trio is an exercise in...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019
Mathias Eick: When We Leave
The Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick is part of the ECM label’s new post-millennium generation of Euro-jazzers, originally making his name...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021
Frank Kimbrough: Frank Kimbrough 2003-2006
Ben Allison | Frank Kimbrough | Masa Kamaguchi | Matt Wilson | Paul Motian
The last time I reviewed Kimbrough in review pages (Jazzwise 237) was when he fronted a six-CD performance of Thelonious...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2022
Ches Smith's We All Break: Path Of Seven Colors
For many it is hard to see past the stigma attached to Haitian voodou. Depictions in western popular culture of...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2021
Stan Getz/Bob Brookmeyer: Recorded Fall 1961
Bob Brookmeyer | Jimmy Garrison | John Neves | Roy Haynes | Stan Getz | Steve Kuhn
The eligibility of this album for the Poll Winners label shows that its warm welcome in 1962 was perhaps exaggerated...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2016
Paul Desmond: The Complete RCA Albums Collection
This six CD set, recorded between 1961-64, includes bonus tracks not included on the original vinyl releases of Desmond Blue,...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2013
Virgilo Armas Trio: De Repente
Domingo Moret | Freddy Leon | Guillermo Tariba | Rodolfo Buenano | Tata Guerra | Virgilio Armas
Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies may have become one of the key curators of classic South African jazz in...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2022
Sebastian Noelle: System One
Chris Tordini | Dan Weiss | Matt Mitchell | Sebastian Noelle
Sages of various persuasions have probably been giving their pet names to the dialectics of intuition and rationality from the...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2022
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