Jaki Byard: The Late Show
Jaki's name is still strongly associated with his Mingus period (1962-65), but a recent Byard reissue (reviewed in Jazzwise 180)...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2014
Radka Toneff and Steve Dobrogosz: Fairytales
Radka Toneff | Steve Dobrogosz
Chances are you have neither heard of this album or Radka Toneff. But the album is recognised as a jazz...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2018
Steve Smith, Tony Monaco & Vinny Valentino: Groove: Blue
Steve Smith | Tony Monaco | Vinny Valentino
Smith pitched in a different context to how we usually hear him; not the funky fusioneer, not the big band...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2015
Australian Art Orchestra: Closed Beginnings
Erkki Veltheim | Lizzy Welsh | Peter Knight | Reuben Lewis | Tariro Mavondo | Zoë Barry
Australian Art Orchestra has always been a broad church. Founded in 1994 by the visionary composer-pianist Paul Grabowsky, the contemporary...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2021
The Fringe: 40 Years on the Fringe
Bob Gullotti | George Garzone | John Lockwood
No saxophonist unpicks the standard repertoire quite so incisively as George Garzone, author of The Triadic Chromatic Approach. But for...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2013
Daniele Cavallanti and the Brotherhood Creative Trance Music Ensemble: Faces and Tales
Some people like to play it straight and keep things simple. Not so the Italian saxophonist Daniele Cavallanti, who, to...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2014
Matt Anderson Quartet: Rambling
Aubin Vanns | Jay Davis | Matt Anderson | Nick Malcolm | Owen Dawson | Peter Lee | Will Harris
Young saxophonist Matt Anderson won the Dankworth Prize for Jazz Composition in 2017 and you can hear why. The writing...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: August/2018
Charlie Parker: Five Classic Albums
The second half of Parker’s studio output was all done for Norman Granz, including the famous Afro-Latin sessions that are...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2020
Aldo Romano: Inner Smile
Aldo Romano | Baptiste Trotignon | Enrio Rava | Thomas Bramerie
Aldo Romano is a no-frills Italian-born, French-based drummer who's been a lynchpin in bands such as those of Henri Texier...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012
Jimmy Giuffre 3 & 4: New York Concerts
Barre Phillips | Don Friedman | Jimmy Giuffre | Joe Chambers | Richard Davis
This is a surprise, the tapes of the two concerts having only come to light two years ago. Engineered by...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2014
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