Espen Berg Trio: Free To Play

The Trondheim-based rising star pianist comes up trumps with a stimulating, individualistic blend of Mehldau-informed counterpoint, Tigran-ish folk tune filigree,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2019

Mark Guiliana: MARK

Mark Guiliana

You can’t get much more contemporary than the singular drummer-composer Mark Guiliana. Yet he often seems contrary in his musical...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2024

Schweizer Favre: Live in Zurich

Aruan Ortiz | Brad Jones | Chad Taylor

Recorded live for a leading avant garde Swiss-based label, this playfully spirited piano and percussion duo has an infectiously raw...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

James Brandon Lewis Quartet: Transfiguration

Aruan Ortiz | Brad Jones | Chad Taylor | James Brandon Lewis

In the third and final section of ‘Triptych’, the highlight of this outstanding album James Brandon Lewis’ quartet engages in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2024

Russ Johnson: Still Out To Lunch

Brad Jones | George Schuller | Myra Melford | Roy Nathanson | Russ Johnson

The 50th anniversary of Eric Dolphy's chef d'oeuvre, Out To Lunch – and more to the point, one of the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015

Album Interview: Jeff Ballard: Fairgrounds

Chris Cheek | Jeff Ballard | Kevin Hays | Lionel Loueke | Mark Turner | Pete Rende | Reid Anderson

Jeff Ballad has a curriculum vitae as long as your arm, touring and recording with a host of notable names...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Feb/2019

Yoko Miwa Trio: Songs of Joy

Brad Barrett | Scott Goulding | Will Slater | Yoko Miwa

The new release from Japanese pianist Yoko Miwa has an appealing lockdown title. Who couldn't do with a little joy...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2021

Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane: Live In Zurich

Aruan Ortiz | Brad Jones | Chad Taylor

The 59-minute Zurich concert last appeared on both Storyville and TCB (see Jazzwise 168), while the 19-minute bonus broadcast...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2018

Isfar Sarabski: Planet

Alan Hampton | Baku Strings Quartet | Isfar Sarabski | Lev Trofimov | Makar Novikov | Mark Guiliana | Sasha Mashin

With a mother who teaches violin; a father who is a record collector and aficionado; and a grandfather who sings...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2022

Album Interview: Sam Crowe Group: Towards the Centre of Everything

Adam Waldmann | Alan Hampton | Emilia Mårtensson | Mark Guiliana | Sam Crowe | Will Davies | Will Vinson

With his remarkably assured debut Synaesthesia in 2011, the London-based pianist Sam Crowe looked like a young man with a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013