Review of Louis Armstrong: Live in France

Louis Armstrong: Live in France

Louis Armstrong

Dot Time

Rating: ★★★

This limited edition vinyl LP is a virtually identical issue to the first part of the CD Live In Europe...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2020

Review of JD Allen: Lovestone

JD Allen: Lovestone

Gregg August | JD Allen | Liberty Ellman | Rudy Royston

Savant SCD

Rating: ★★★★

This is JD's seventh album for Savant and, as on the previous release Radio Flyer, the trio has become a...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2018

Review of The Whammies: Play The Music Of Steve Lacy Vol. 3 Live

The Whammies: Play The Music Of Steve Lacy Vol. 3 Live

Han Bennink | Jason Roebke | Jeb Bishop | Jorrit Dijkstra | Mary Oliver | Pandelis Karayorgis

Driff

Rating: ★★★

It's a high point in any live recording featuring Han Bennink when the drummer starts to let out a whoop...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2015

Review of Pete Oxley/Nicolas Meier: The Colours of Time: Duo and Quartet

Pete Oxley/Nicolas Meier: The Colours of Time: Duo and Quartet

Nicolas Meier | Paul Cavaciuti | Pete Oxley | Raph Mizraki

MGP

Rating: ★★★★

The Oxley-Meier axis grows ever richer. Following 2015's satisfying Chasing Tales, the pair toured and wrote and the results are...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2017

Review of Joe Lovano Us Five: Cross Culture

Joe Lovano Us Five: Cross Culture

Esperanza Spalding | Francisco Mela | James Weidman | Joe Lovano | Lionel Loueke | Otis Brown | Peter Slavov

Blue Note 38751

Rating: ★★★★

Lovano moves ever onward and upward, in terms of both commercial credibility and artistic maturity, and this third recorded outing...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2013

Review of Helge Lien/Knut Hem: Hummingbird

Helge Lien/Knut Hem: Hummingbird

Helge Lien | Knut Hem

Ozella

Rating: ★★★

Ooh, could that be an original Weissenborn Knut's caressing…? Our average reader (not that Jazzwise has ‘average’ readers, every reader...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2018

Review of Randy Brecker & Eric Marienthal: Double Dealin’

Randy Brecker & Eric Marienthal: Double Dealin’

Randy Brecker

Shanachie

Rating: ★★★

The wonder of Double Dealin’ is that, given the decades Brecker and Marienthal have been in each other's orbit, this...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2020

Review of David Grubbs, Mat Gustaffson, Rob Mazurkek: The Underflow

David Grubbs, Mat Gustaffson, Rob Mazurkek: The Underflow

David Grubbs | Mats Gustafsson | Rob Mazurek

Corbett Vs. Dempsey

Rating: ★★★

Though recorded live in Athens, Greece – at the Underflow Record Shop And Art Gallery, thus gifting the project its...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2020

Review of Compro Oro with Murat Ertel & Esma Ertel: Simurg

Compro Oro with Murat Ertel & Esma Ertel: Simurg

Bart Vervaeck | Esma Ertel | Falk Schrauwen | Frederick Van den Berghe | Matthias Debusschere | Murat Ertel | Wim Segers

Sdban Ultra

Rating: ★★★

Compro Oro are a mercurial Belgian quintet with a penchant for the vibraphone and a transnational restlessness that makes them...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2020

Review of Alice Zawadzki & Dan Whieldon: Lela

Alice Zawadzki & Dan Whieldon: Lela

Alice Zawadzki | Dan Whieldon | Rosa Campos Fernandez

Odrarek

Rating: ★★★

Catholic song selection from Handel to Coltrane, and Carl Raven’s superbly intimate, ringingly atmospheric recording confirm Zawadzki’s fine vocal talent....

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2016

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