Review of Blixt

Blixt

Bill Laswell | Morgen Ågren | Raoul Björkenheim

Cuneiform

Rating: ★★

According to their press release, Blixt are purporting to be the present-day aftershock of 1960s power trio Cream, a statement...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2012

Review of Trevor Taylor/Ian Brighton/Steve Beresford: Kontakte Trio

Trevor Taylor/Ian Brighton/Steve Beresford: Kontakte Trio

Ian Brighton | Steve Beresford | Trevor Taylor

FMR

Rating: ★★★

Guitarist Ian Brighton's recent return to playing after a nearly 40-year sabbatical is one of the more heartening tales from...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2017

Review of Camilla George: Ibio-Ibio

Camilla George: Ibio-Ibio

Camilla George | Daniel Casimir | Daru Jones | Kadialy Kouyate | Lady Sanity | Renato Paris | Rosie Turton | Sarah Tandy | Sheila Maurice-Grey | Shirley Tetteh

Ever Records

Rating: ★★★

Born in Nigeria and of Afro-Caribbean heritage, Camilla George is in constant contact with all kinds of groove. Ibio-Ibio continues...

Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: October/2022

Review of Mathias Eick: Ravensburg

Mathias Eick: Ravensburg

Andreas Ulvo | Audun Erlien | Håkon Aase | Helge Andreas Norbakken | Mathias Eick | Torstein Lofthus

Rating: ★★★

Norwegian trumpeter Mathias Eick's blend of voice-like long-tone tremors and supple jazz phrasing links him with such atmospheric brass-playing relatives...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2018

Review of Art Pepper & Ted Brown: The Complete Free Wheeling Sessions

Art Pepper & Ted Brown: The Complete Free Wheeling Sessions

Art Pepper | Ben Tucker | Gary Frommer | Jeff Morton | Ronnie Ball | Ted Brown | Warne Marsh

Phoenix

Rating: ★★★★

Here are three of the leading exponents of the Lennie Tristano template for jazz improvisation caught in confident accord, deploying...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2015

Review of Dara Tucker: Dreams of Waking: Music For a Better World

Dara Tucker: Dreams of Waking: Music For a Better World

Dana Tucker

Green Hill Music

Rating: ★★★★

While every song covered on vocalist, songwriter and bandleader Dara Tucker's Dreams of Waking: Music For a Better World is...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2021

Review of Roberto Magris: Match Point

Roberto Magris: Match Point

Alfredo Chacon | Dion Kerr | Roberto Magris | Rodolfo Zuniga

JMood

Rating: ★★★

I was first aware of Trieste-born pianist and composer Magris in 2007 as an accomplished post-bop performer, and his reputation...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2022

Review of East Axis: No Subject

East Axis: No Subject

Gerald Cleaver | Kevin Ray | Matthew Shipp | Scott Robinson

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★

‘Supergroup’ can be something of a throwaway term, but this gathering has players of sufficient stature to give the description...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2023

Review of Vicente Archer: Short Stories

Vicente Archer: Short Stories

Bill Stewart | Gerald Clayton | Vicente Archer

Cellar Live

Rating: ★★★

Having spent time on the road together with John Scofield, these three musicians have already developed the kind of mutual...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2023

Review of John Taylor: Requiem For A Dreamer

John Taylor: Requiem For A Dreamer

John Taylor | Julian Argüelles | Martin France | Palle Danielsson

Camjazz

Rating: ★★★

John Taylor has made too few albums under his own name over the years and Requiem is a reminder of...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: June/2011

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