Tigran Hamasyan: The Call Within
On his third trio album, the 33-year-old Armenian-born, LA-based pianist-composer Tigran Hamasyan intensifies the uniquely personal soundworld he developed on...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2020
Aaron Parks: Find the Way
Aaron Parks | Ben Street | Billy Hart
The 33-year-old pianist Aaron Parks first attracted the attention of the jazz cognoscenti playing in one of trumpeter Terence Blanchard's...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017
Gwilym Simcock and the City of London Sinfonia: Instrumation
Gwilym Simcock | John Parricelli | Martin France | Thomas Gould | Will Schofield | Yuri Goloubev
Now he's lost the tag of the new jazz piano boy wonder, Gwilym Simcock's new recordings seem to get much...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014
Denis Gäbel: The Good Spirits
Clarence Penn | Denis Gabel | Kevin Hays | Scott Colley
The German saxophonist's first album, 2007's Keep on Rollin', was a piano-free tribute to Sonny Rollins and his second, released...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2018
The Jamie Baum Septet+: In This Life
When is a septet not a septet? When it's a septet+, of course. Flautist/composer Jamie Baum has been leading her...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2014
Isfar Sarabski: Planet
Alan Hampton | Isfar Sarabski | Makar Novikov | Mark Guiliana | Sasha Masin | Shahriyar Imanov
It could be argued that major labels, with few exceptions, have always had the tendency to follow, rather than take,...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2021
Elan Mehler Trio: There Is A Dance
Elan Mehler | Francisco Mela | Tony Scherr
Elan Mehler was discovered by Gilles Peterson in 2007 and went on to release three albums for Peterson's Brownswood imprint:...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: October/2022
Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra: Open Spaces (Folk Songs Reimagined)
This is an unusual project by Hersog, a Canadian trumpeter, composer and arranger who is also that rarity, the leader...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: August/2023
Alex Cline's Flower Garden Orchestra: Oceans Of Vows
Nels Cline's lightning-storm guitar soloing in one of America's finest rock bands, Wilco, has seen his renown eclipse that of...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2017
Steve Smith and Vital Information: The Complete Columbia Recordings
Smith could hardly have predicted the longevity of Vital Information when Columbia signed him as a solo artist after he’d...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
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