Eric Dolphy: Outward Bound: Quartet and Quintet Albums with Roy Haynes
This well produced 2CD set with some fine Francis Wolff iconography combines Dolphy's first three albums under his own name...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2019
Tim Berne's Snakeoil: You've been Watching Me
Ches Smith | Matt Mitchell | Oscar Noriega | Ryan Ferreira | Tim Berne
Up until now, the New York saxophonist Tim Berne's sixyear-old band Snakeoil (although his collaboration with the younger pianist Matt...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2015
Burak Bedikyan: Leap of Faith
Doug Weiss | Eric Alexander | Johnathan Blake
Burak Bedikyan is a Turkish jazz pianist who pledges allegiance to the bebop masters from Bud Powell through to the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2019
Alphonso Johnson: Moonshadows/Yesterday’s Dreams/Spellbound
Johnson probably never got the credit he deserves for his Weather Report days, sandwiched between Vitous and some guy called...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2016
Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra: Emergence
It has been said before, it will be said again: jazz north of the border is thriving. That's thanks in...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2012
Abercrombie/Mintzer/Erskine/Patitucci: The Hudson Project (Live)
Bob Mintzer | John Abercrombie | John Patitucci | Peter Erskine
There's something strange in the tides of men when an album is promoted as “real music performed in front of...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2012
Randal Despommier ft. Ben Monder: A Midsummer Odyssey
Ben Monder | Randal Despommier
Some of his fellow Swedes somewhat disparagingly called Lars Gullin a crafter of ‘cattle-shed jazz’ (‘fäbodjazz’), the implication being that...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2022
Gregory Porter: Liquid Spirit
The central media story here is ‘major label debut’ but that’s not the only point of interest. Although Porter’s lordly...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2013
Alex Merritt Quartet: Anatta
Alex Merritt | Jeff Williams | John Turville | Sam Lasserson
Birmingham Conservatoire grad Alex Merritt brings together some interesting influences on his debut disc as leader, released as part of...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2016
Carsten Dahl: Bach Goldberg Variations
The bottom left hand corner of the CD case of Dahl's Goldberg Variations reads: ‘Genre: Classical’. It became Denmark's best-selling...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2015
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