Review of Eliane Elias: Dance Of Time

Eliane Elias: Dance Of Time

Eliane Elias

Concord Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

Following on from Bossa Nova Stories (2009), Light My Fire (2011), I Thought About You (2013) and Made in Brazil...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2017

Review of LFU: Lisbon Freedom Unit: Praise Of Our Folly

LFU: Lisbon Freedom Unit: Praise Of Our Folly

Bruno Parrinha | Gabriel Ferrandini | Hernâni Faustino | Luís Lopes | Pedro Lopes | Pedro Sousa | Ricardo Jacinto | Rodrigo Amado | Rodrigo Pinheiro

Clean Feed

Rating: ★★★

The title riffs on an essay by Renaissance scholar Erasmus, which posits that only folly can bring us close to...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2018

Review of David Torn: Cloud About Mercury

David Torn: Cloud About Mercury

Bill Bruford | David Torn | Mark Isham | Tony Levin

ECM

Rating: ★★★

Guitarist David Torn was a key member of Jan Garbarek's quartet in the mid-1980s, around the same time he cut...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2019

Review of Wolfert Brederode Trio: Black Ice

Wolfert Brederode Trio: Black Ice

Gulli Gudmundsson | Jasper van Hulten | Wolfert Brederode

ECM

Rating: ★★★

Mark my words, these tunes won’t sound right sung by Axl Rose rather than Brian Johnson Actually, this isn’t Black...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2016

Review of Pepper Adams with the Tommy Banks Trio: Live at Room at the Top

Pepper Adams with the Tommy Banks Trio: Live at Room at the Top

Bobby Cairns | Pepper Adams | Tom Doran | Tommy Banks

Reel to Real RTRLP008

Rating: ★★★★

Plenty of hitherto unreleased sessions from jazz clubs, such as this one from the University of Alberta, team a well-known...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2022

Review of Volker Kriegel: Two Concerts: Lagos 1979 & Bochum 1990

Volker Kriegel: Two Concerts: Lagos 1979 & Bochum 1990

Christof Lauer | Evert Fratermann | Hans ‘Batt’ Behrendt | Hans Peter Ströer | Michael Sh໲mann | Thomas Alkier | Thomas Bettermann | Uli Beckerhoff | Volker Kriegel | Wolfgang Engstfeld

Rating: ★★★

In 1968, the Gary Burton Quartet appeared at the Berlin Jazz Festival playing a synthesis of jazz and rock music....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2020

Review of Dettmar Quartet: Escales

Dettmar Quartet: Escales

Alexandre Jouravksy | Bernard Cochin | Francois Laizeau | Guillaume Dettmar

Naïve/Believe

Rating: ★★★

Middle Eastern and Mediterranean music – in the broadest sense – have long had an influence on European musicians, and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2022

Review of Irè ne Schweizer & Joey Baron: Live!

Irè ne Schweizer & Joey Baron: Live!

Irè ne Schweizer | Joey Baron

Intakt

Rating: ★★★

Irène Schweizer has made duets with drummers something of a speciality act and this latest instalment, following her percussion discussions...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Review of Chick Corea & Béla Fleck: Two

Chick Corea & Béla Fleck: Two

Béla Fleck | Chick Corea

Concord Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

Late flowering Corea is a wonder to behold. His technical facility, his unique vision and utter surety in his playing...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2015

Review of Samo Salamon Sextet: The Colours Suite

Samo Salamon Sextet: The Colours Suite

Achille Succi | Christian Lillinger | Julian Argüelles | Pascal Niggenkemper | Roberto Dani | Samo Salamon

Clean Feed

Rating: ★★★★

It's intriguing to compare Salamon and Ollie Hirvonen (who's new album on Edition is also reviewed this issue): both are...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2017

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