Master Oogway: A Lot of Music About Everything
Master Oogway’s last – and live – album, Happy Village, shared billing with guest flautist Henriette Eilertsen, together creating a...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: August/2023
Roberto Ottaviano QuakTet: Sideralis
Alexander Hawkins | Gerry Hemingway | Michael Formanek | Roberto Ottaviano
Italian saxophonist Roberto Ottaviano's Sideralis opens by conspicuously upending jazz convention. The rhythmic underlay provided by piano, bass and drums...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: November/2017
Kiefer: When There's Love Around
Pianist/producer Kiefer Shackelford, or just plain Kiefer to his many fans and followers, is a great example of what happens...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: September/2021
Snowpoet: Wait For Me
The word Snowpoet, alone, steers the ear toward the intimate and abstracted landscapes of this album. The duo of Chris...
Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: April/2021
Eddie Gripper: Home
Eddie Gripper | Isaac Zuckerman | Ursula Harrison
The UK has produced some extraordinary jazz pianists of late: Deschanel Gordon (who has recorded with Tomorrow's New Quartet), Sultan...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: June/2023
Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Thomas Morgan, Andrew Cyrille: Taking Turns
Andrew Cyrille | Bill Frisell | Jakob Bro | Jason Moran | Lee Konitz | Thomas Morgan
It’s amazing to think that Lee Konitz, with his distinctively questioning, interior sound, played with Miles and Mulligan at the...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: December/2024
Houston Person: Live in Paris
Ben Paterson | Houston Person | Peter Bernstein | Willie Jones III
Person and company were in Paris for Festival Jazz a la Villette, their set recorded by France Musique and how...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Julian Argüelles: Tonadas
Ivo Neame | James Maddren | Julian Argüelles | Sam Lasserson
Premier UK saxophonist-composer Julian Argüelles has been in inspired form throughout a prolific period of recording this past decade. He...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2018
Julie Sassoon Quartet: Voyages
Julie Sassoon | Lothar Ohlmeier | Meinrad Kneer | Rudi Fischerlehner
Julie Sassoon's European quartet certainly sounds like a postbop-to-free jazz band in its piano/horn/rhythm instrumentation, the punch of its ensemble-playing,...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2022
Brian Bromberg: Thicker Than Water
Remember when records came with proud disclaimers about no synthesisers being used in the making of an album? Well, Brian...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2018
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