Mat Maneri/Evan Parker/Lucian Ban: Sounding Tears
Evan Parker | Lucian Ban | Mat Maneri
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
Slobber Pup: Black Aces
Balasz Pandi | Jamie Saft | Joe Morris | Trevor Dunn
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
Marcin Wasilewski Trio: Live
Gerald Watkins | Jasen Weaver | Jason Marsalis | Oscar Rossignoli
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
Joachim Kühn New Trio: Beauty & Truth
Chris Jennings | Eric Schaefer | Joachim Kühn
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
King Crimson: Sailors’ Tales
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
Jeremy Pelt: Soul
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
Misha Mullov-Abbado: New Ansonia
A polished performance at last year's Proms, in the intimate setting of the Elgar Room, showed that Mullov-Abbado's ensemble was...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2015
Mark Guiliana: the sound of listening
Chris Morrissey | Jason Rigby | Mark Guiliana | Shai Maestro
New Jersey-born drummer Mark Guiliana releases his first quartet recording for five years on the high-profile, internationalist, UK-based Edition Records...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2022
Spirit Fingers
Dario Chiazzolino | Greg Spero | Hadrien Feraud | Mike Mitchell
The interest in fusion today among young musicians is a curious thing. The long hair and flares of the 1970s...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: May/2018
B.J. Jansen: Common Ground
B.J. Jansen | Delfeayo Marsalis | Dezron Douglas | Duane Eubanks | Ralph Peterson | Zaccai Curtis
The lolloping swing that drives the opening modal blues signals baritone saxophonist B.J. Jansen's mainstream aesthetic, the floaty cover of...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2017
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