Review of Live at the Baked Potato! – Charged Particles with Tod Dickow: Play the Music of Michael Brecker

Live at the Baked Potato! – Charged Particles with Tod Dickow: Play the Music of Michael Brecker

Aaron Germain | Jon Krosnick | Murray Low | Omar Ledezma | Tod Dickow

Editor's Choice

Summit Records 789

Rating: ★★★★

This is a really dynamic and ambitious live tribute to the legendary saxophonist Michael Brecker, who sadly passed away at...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2022

Review of Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin: Ghosted

Oren Ambarchi/Johan Berthling/Andreas Werliin: Ghosted

Andreas Werliin | Christer Bothén | Johan Berthling | Oren Ambarchi

Drag City

Rating: ★★★

Australian polymath Oren Ambarchi added guitar to the 2012 album, In The Mouth – A Hand, by Swedish trio, Fire!...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2022

Review of Ilmiliekki Quartet: Land Of Real Men

Ilmiliekki Quartet: Land Of Real Men

Antti Lötjönen | Olavi Louhivuori | Tuomo Prättälä | Verneri Pohjola

We Jazz Records

Rating: ★★★★

They're back! Older and wiser that's for sure, the Ilmiliekki Quartet was one of the great success stories of the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2019

Review of Steve Gadd/Eddie Gomez/Ronnie Cuber/The WDR Big Band: Center Stage

Steve Gadd/Eddie Gomez/Ronnie Cuber/The WDR Big Band: Center Stage

Andy Hunter | Bobby Sparks II | Bruno Muller | Eddie Gomez | Karolina Strassmayer | Ludwig Nuss | Paul Heller | Ronnie Cuber | Simon Oslender | Steve Gadd

Leopard

Rating: ★★★

As big band leader and rising star Olivia Murphy has lamented, the UK lacks standing bands like the Danish Radio...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2022

Review of Pavillon: Strong Tea

Pavillon: Strong Tea

Andy Panayi | Dave Whitford | Gene Calderazzo | Hans Koller | Jeremy Price | Jim Rattigan | Martin Speake | Mick Foster | Percy Pursglove | Robbie Robson

Pavillon

Rating: ★★★★

Jim Rattigan, who leads the A-list cast of experienced Brit-based jazzers that make up Pavillon, was a former principal French...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

Review of Antonio Carlos Jobim: Tide/Stone Flower

Antonio Carlos Jobim: Tide/Stone Flower

Airto Moreira | Antonio Carlos Jobim | Eumir Deodato | Everaldo Ferreira | Harry Lookofsky | Hermeto Pascoal | Hubert Laws | Jerry Dodgion | Joao Palma | Joe Farrell

Sony

Rating: ★★★★

What more can be said about Rio-born songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim, deemed ‘the greatest composer of the Americas’ by Sinatra,...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2018

Review of John Pizzarelli: Stage & Screen

John Pizzarelli: Stage & Screen

Isaiah J Thompson | John Pizzarelli | Mike Karn

Palmetto Records

Rating: ★★★

“In thinking about some of the songs that I really love to play, it struck me how many of them...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2023

Review of Kathrine Windfeld Big Band: Latency

Kathrine Windfeld Big Band: Latency

15-piece big band | Kathrine Windfeld

Stunt

Rating: ★★★

After her debut album Aircraft in 2015, Kathrine Windfeld went from unknown to ‘Scandinavia's New Big Band Star’ in one...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2017

Review of Ezra Collective: Where I’m Meant To Be

Ezra Collective: Where I’m Meant To Be

Femi Koleoso | Ife Ogunjobi | James Mollison | Joe Armon-Jones | TJ Koleoso

Partisan Records

Rating: ★★★★

The Londoners continue to shirk labels as they tunnel further into acoustic dance music on their second album. Having ridden...

Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023

Review of Pharez Whitted: For the People

Pharez Whitted: For the People

Bobby Broom | Dennie Carroll | Eddie Bayard | Greg Artry | Pharez Whitted | Ron Perrillo

Origin

Rating: ★★★

We often hear of musicians coming from a ‘musical background’, but Chicago trumpeter Pharez Whitted probably takes the prize....

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2013

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