Woody Shaw Quintet: Basel 1980
The history books like to have us believe that, until the arrival of Wynton Marsalis and co. in the early...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: August/2019
Nate Smith: Kinfolk 2: See The Birds
Smith is one of several notable Americans who straddle the world of jazz, soul and electronica and have an avowed...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2021
Hayden Chisholm: Breve
Hayden Chisholm | John Taylor | Matt Penman
Light and lyrical, this is the debut studio set from the trio founded in 2007 and led by New Zealandborn,...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2015
Kris Bowers: Heroes + Misfits
Twenty-four-year-old US pianist Kris Bowers has serious improv chops – no wonder he won the prestigious Tholonious Monk International Jazz...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2014
Graham Collier Jazz Ensemble: Luminosity The Last Suites
The timing of this handsomely packaged collection of Collier's last two un-recorded suites, ‘Luminosity’ and ‘The Blue Suite’ is appropriate...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2014
Michael Wollny & Vincent Peirani: Tandem
Michael Wollny | Vincent Peirani
Vincent Peirani is one of several younger musicians who have brought a new vibrancy to the current Parisian jazz scene.Astonishingly...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2016
Sara Colman: Ink On A Pin: A Celebration of Joni Mitchell
It's a brave artist who follows the likes of Ian Shaw and, most serenely, Luciana Souza and Norah Jones on...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2022
Esperanza Spalding: Radio Music Society 10th Anniversary Edition
If her 2006 debut Junjo announced the arrival of a major new jazz talent (virtuoso bassist and singer and gifted...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2023
Karl Berger/Kirk Knuffke: Heart Is A Melody
Jay Anderson | Karl Berger | Kirk Knuffke | Matt Wilson
Now 87, the German-born vibist Berger is the doyen of the New York avant-garde, a long-time sideman with Don Cherry,...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2023
Hank Mobley: Four Classic Albums – Second Set
This is a significant supplement to the same label's previous Mobley set reviewed in Jazzwise 214. Whereas that compilation concentrated...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2019
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