Review of Dave Brubeck Quartet: At the Sunset Center, Carmel 1955

Dave Brubeck Quartet: At the Sunset Center, Carmel 1955

Bob Bates | Dave Brubeck | Joe Dodge | Paul Desmond

Solar Records

Rating: ★★★★

The release of this CD presents, for the first time ever, the complete concert by the Dave Brubeck Quartet at...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2017

Review of Warped Dreamer: Live at the Bimhuis

Warped Dreamer: Live at the Bimhuis

Arve Henriksen

Consouling Sounds

Rating: ★★★

This group, comprising Henriksen and Westerhus from Norway, and Dumoulin and Verbruggen from Belgium, are captured live on Amsterdam's famed...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2021

Review of Laura Zakian: Songs For Modern Lovers

Laura Zakian: Songs For Modern Lovers

Laura Zakian | Nic France | Simon Simon | Steve Lodder

Dancing Rhino Records

Rating: ★★★★

Album number four from singer Laura Zakian is part homage to Frank Sinatra's classic 1956 album Songs for Swinging Lovers,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2014

Review of Wayne Krantz: Write Out Your Head

Wayne Krantz: Write Out Your Head

Chris Potter | Gabriella Anders | Keith Carlock | Orlando Fleming | Pino Palladino | Tim Lefebvre | Wayne Krantz | Will Lee

Self-release (CD)

Rating: ★★★

Krantz keeps the constant surprise going with a release which is at once more composed, in both mood and construction,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2020

Review of Mat Maneri/Evan Parker/Lucian Ban: Sounding Tears

Mat Maneri/Evan Parker/Lucian Ban: Sounding Tears

Evan Parker | Lucian Ban | Mat Maneri

Clean Feed Records

Rating: ★★★

Mat Maneri so often lends the distinctive cry-point tone of his microtonal viola improvisations to other people's projects that the...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: July/2017

Review of Slobber Pup: Black Aces

Slobber Pup: Black Aces

Balasz Pandi | Jamie Saft | Joe Morris | Trevor Dunn

Rare Noise

Rating: ★★★

Here are four heavy-hitters with intertwined musical lives that dip in and out of several weird by-waters, taking in collaborations...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2013

Review of Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Live

Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Live

Gerald Watkins | Jasen Weaver | Jason Marsalis | Oscar Rossignoli

Basin Street Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Polish pianist Marcin Wasilewski trio's new album has rather fittingly arrived following the sad passing of compatriot Tomasz Stańko....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2020

Review of Joachim Kühn New Trio: Beauty & Truth

Joachim Kühn New Trio: Beauty & Truth

Chris Jennings | Eric Schaefer | Joachim Kühn

ACT

Rating: ★★★★

This absorbing album by German jazz great Joachim Kühn introduces a new trio with musicians half his age – Chris...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2016

Review of King Crimson: Sailors’ Tales

King Crimson: Sailors’ Tales

Andy McCulloch | Boz Burrell | Gordon Haskell | Greg Lake | Ian McDonald | Ian Wallace | Jakko Jakszyk | Jon Anderson | Keith Tippett | Mark Charig

Panegyric/DGM

Rating: ★★★

The Crims have featured several eye-catching line-ups, but even their most one-eyed fan (that’ll be me then) would struggle to...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2018

Review of Jeremy Pelt: Soul

Jeremy Pelt: Soul

Gerald Cleaver | Ivo Perelman | Joe Morris | Karl Berger | Mat Maneri | Matthew Shipp | Michael Bisio | Whit Dickey

Leo

Rating: ★★★★

In the 2011 Jazzwise critics poll listings (December/January issue) both Roy Carr and this writer voted Jeremy Pelt's The Talented...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2016

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