Mark Turner/Ethan Iverson: Temporary Kings

Ethan Iverson | Mark Turner

Both are members of the splendid Billy Hart Quartet; Mark Turner, an influential contemporary jazz saxophonist originally from LA, has...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2018

Thelonious Monk: Complete 1947-56 Trios

Al McKibbon | Art Blakey | Ben Riley | Butch Warren | Charlie Rouse | Dave Brubeck | Frankie Dunlop | Gary Mapp | Gene Ramey | Johnny Griffin

The EJC label is well named in this case, although the contents render redundant an earlier CD of Monk’s first...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2016

Don Cherry: Homeboy, Sister Out

Abdoulaye Prosper Niang | Brion Gysin | Claude Salmieri | Don Cherry | Eli Medeiros | Fil Mong | Jannick Top | Jen-Pierre Coco | Negrito Trasante | Ramutcho Matta

One of the legendary brass man’s most thought provoking and appealing works – a snapshot of 1980s Paris as the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2018

Paisean

Ex-Middlesex 1980s uni graduates, the experienced saxophonist Ed Jones and pianist-composer Steve Plews, convene for a set balancing hard bop...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2013

Sonny Rollins: Sonny Rollins Plays The Blues

A 2CD set that charts Sonny from 1951-58 as both leader and sideman. It makes up in breadth what it...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Feb/2019

Poncho Sanchez and Terence Blanchard: Chano y Dizzy!

David Torres | Francisco Torres | George Ortiz | Joey De Leon Jr | Poncho Sanchez | Rob Hardt | Ron Francis Blake | Terence Blanchard | Tony Banda

The eminently worthy idea is to celebrate the pioneers Pozo and Gillespie together, and the resultant album gets off to...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2012

Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Fantastic Mrs 10

Ches Smith | Marc Ducret | Matt Mitchell | Oscar Noriega | Tim Berne

For a band that features a good deal of New York composer/ saxophonist Tim Berne’s signature methods – knotty, muscular...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2020

David Weiss & Point Of Departure: Two Faced

Ben Eunson | David Weiss | JD Allen | Kush Abadey | Matt Clohesy | Myron Walden | Nir Felder | Travis Reuter

Regular readers will remember the high regard with which this writer holds trumpeter/composer/arranger David Weiss, currently heavily involved with The...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: April/2017

Jameszoo: Blind

Christian Lillinger | Diamanda La Berge Dramm | Dorian Concept | Evan Parker | John Dikeman | Julian Sartorius | Kit Downes | Matthew Bourne | Mitchel van Dinther | Neil Broos

As jazz and electronic musicians shuffle ever closer to one another’s sonic terrain, this meeting of minds and modular synths...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: May/2022

Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis & Johnny Griffin Quintet: Griff & Lock - The Complete Studio Recordings 1960-1961

Ben Riley | Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis | Johnny Griffin | Junior Mance | Larry Gales

If author Damon Runyon had ever turned his pen to the jazz community, not only would he have probably conjured...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2012