Maria Schneider & SWR Big Band
Maria Schneider long ago gave up weekly gigs with her big band that began way back in the 1990s in...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2018
Opus 5: Pentasonic
Alex Sipiagin | Boris Kozlov | David Kikoski | Donald Edwards | Seamus Blake
The co-operative quintet's second album seethes and surges through tricky harmonies, zips from hard-boiled swing to soulful beats, and gives...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2013
Kahil El’ Zabar Quartet: A Time For Healing
Corey Wilkes | Isaiah Collier | Justin Dillard | Kahil El’Zabar
Percussionist-bandleader-educator Kahil El’Zabar has been a noted elder statesman of the Chicago scene for many years, but in the past...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2022
Allan Holdsworth: Eidolon: The Allan Holdsworth Collection
With 150 minutes plus of classic Holdsworth across 28 cuts, gnarly-bloke fans could hardly ask for more, right? Well this...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2017
George Cables: Icons And Influences
Dezron Douglas | George Cables | Victor Lewis
Cables, who turns 70 later this year, has long been a valued sideman, notably in quartets with Dexter Gordon and...
Reviewed by Brian Priestle in issue: April/2014
Renee Rosnes: Beloved of the Sky
Chris Potter | Lenny White | Peter Washington | Renee Rosnes | Steve Nelson
Canada-born pianist Renee Rosnes (an associate over the years with stars as big as Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter and Bobby...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2018
Mathias Eick: Midwest
Gjermund Larsen | Helge Norbakken | Jon Balke | Mathias Eick | Mats Eilertsen
This is the third album on ECM by the 30-year-old Norwegian trumpeter following 2011's Skala and the 2007 debut The...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015
Joe Chambers: Landscapes
Ira Coleman | Joe Chambers | Rick Germanson
Although perceived first and foremost as a drummer, Chambers reminds us on this listenable album that he is one of...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2016
David Sanborn: Time And The River
David Sanborn | Javier Diaz | Marcus Baylor | Marcus Miller | Roy Assaf | Yotam Silberstein
It's been a long time since Sanborn's heyday in the late 1970s and early-80s, when that signature alto wail seemed...
Reviewed by Brian Glasser in issue: April/2015
Phi-Psonics: Octava
Josh Collazo | Mitchell Yoshida | Seth Ford-Young | Sylvain Carton
A cursory listen to Octava would probably be unduly beguiled by the album’s overall smooth and even sound. Phi-Psonics follow...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: August/2023
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