Review of Thomas Strønen: Time is a Blind Guide

Thomas Strønen: Time is a Blind Guide

Håkon Aase | Kit Downes | Lucy Railton | Ole Morten Vagan | Siv øyunn Kjenstad | Steinar Mossige | Thomas Strønen

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

Coinciding with a new ECM release by his co-led improvising electronic-orientated duo Food, the leading Norwegian percussionist/drummer Thomas Strønen goes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Review of Ivo Perelman & Karl Berger: Reverie

Ivo Perelman & Karl Berger: Reverie

Ivo Perelman | Karl Berger

Leo

Rating: ★★★

Given the fact that the prolific Brazilian tenor saxophonist plays within a relatively small circle of musicians, the appearance of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2014

Review of Adam Schroeder/Mark Masters: CT!

Adam Schroeder/Mark Masters: CT!

Aaron Janik | Adam Schroeder | Bob Sheppard | Dan Fornero | Edwin Livingston | Francisco Torres | Ido Meshulam | James Ford | Kirsten Edkins | Lemar Guillary

Capri 74170-2

Rating: ★★★

This particular CT scan celebrates material created by the great trumpeter and teacher Clark Terry, and was conceived in 2020...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2024

Review of Sean Khan Presents the Modern Jazz and Folk Ensemble: Volume 1

Sean Khan Presents the Modern Jazz and Folk Ensemble: Volume 1

Andy Noble | Danny Keane | Dave Pegg | Gerry Diver | Jacqui McShee | Kindelan | Laurie Lowe | Max Baillie | Mirko Scarcia | Miya Vaisanen

Editor's Choice

Acid Jazz Records

Rating: ★★★★

Jazz and folk have always danced together, and Khan celebrates that alliance with a special focus on great singer-songwriters of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2024

Review of Joachim Kühn & Michael Wollny: Duo

Joachim Kühn & Michael Wollny: Duo

Joachim Kühn | Michael Wollny

ACT Music

Rating: ★★★

The piano duo is hardly a new, novel or modern idea. The finest early example, from 1779, is Mozart’s Piano...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2024

Review of Daniel Humair/Samuel Blaser/Heiri Känzig: Our Way

Daniel Humair/Samuel Blaser/Heiri Känzig: Our Way

Daniel Humair | Heiri Känzig | Samuel Blaser

Blaser Music BM012CD

Rating: ★★★

This all-star Swiss trio – which sometimes goes by the name Helveticus – is an intergenerational affair, bringing together octogenarian...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2024

Review of Sonny Red: Quartet, Quintet & Sextet (2-CDs)

Sonny Red: Quartet, Quintet & Sextet (2-CDs)

Albert “Tootie” Heath | Art Davis | Barry Harris | Blue Mitchell | Bob Cranshaw | Cedar Walton | Clifford Jordan | Elvin Jones | George Tucker | Grant Green

Fresh Sound

Rating: ★★★★

It goes without saying that virtually every altoist in the late-1940s and 50s was infl uenced to some extent by...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2012

Review of Paul Desmond/Gerry Mulligan: Two of a Mind

Paul Desmond/Gerry Mulligan: Two of a Mind

Connie Kay | Ed Shaughnessy | Gerry Mulligan | Jim Hall | Joe Benjamin | John Beal | Mel Lewis | Paul Desmond | Wendell Marshall

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★

Paul Desmond's style, tone and conception on alto saxophone remain unique in jazz to this day. In his time he...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2014

Review of Blue Mitchell & Junior Cook: Quintet Sessions/The Cup Bearers/Junior's Cookin'

Blue Mitchell & Junior Cook: Quintet Sessions/The Cup Bearers/Junior's Cookin'

Blue Mitchell | Cedar Walton | Dodo Coker | Gene Taylor | Junior Cook | Ronnie Matthews | Roy Brooks

Fresh Sounds

Rating: ★★★

Junior Cook and Blue Mitchell made up the front line of Horace Silver's wildly successful Quintet which between 1958 and...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2014

Review of Neil Cowley Trio: Live at Montreux 2012

Neil Cowley Trio: Live at Montreux 2012

Alex Eichenberger | Evan Jenkins | Helen Sanders-Hewett | Julian Ferraretto | Miles Brett | Neil Cowley | Rex Horan

Eagle Rock

Rating: ★★★

It can't be easy following Tony Bennett, but that's what the jazz/post-rock NCT did at Montreux's Miles Davis Hall last...

Reviewed by Matt Phillips in issue: June/2013

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