Samara Joy
The Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition has played a significant part in launching the careers of a remarkable array...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2021
Jack Walrath: To Hellas and Back
Abraham Burton | Boris Kozlov | Donald Edwards | George Burton | Jack Walrath
Jack Walrath’s assured attack, brassy sound and melodically angular lines were honed by five years with the late Charles Mingus...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2013
Bill Evans: Complete February 1972 Paris ORTF Performance
Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez | Marty Morell | Tony Oxley
In terms of current releases, this would be preferable to the single-CD Köln Concert 1976 (see Jazzwise 198), if only...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2015
Trevor Watts Moiré Music Drum Orchestra: With The Flow
To criticise music as life-affirming as this seems rather churlish, so it is with a heavy heart that I write...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2022
BaBaZuLa: Hayvan Gibi
Mehmet Levent Akman | Osman Mura Ertel | Periklis Tsoukala | Ümit Adakale
In the time of Covid-19, this might be as close as you'll get to a genuine, flesh-and-blood show – a...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2020
Flashmob: Generals
Nick Smalley | Rory Simmons | Ryan Williams | Will Collier
Electric guitarist Ryan Williams’ four-piece Flashmob were formed in 2007. On the band’s debut Generals on the F-IRE label, Williams...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2011
Brandon Seabrook/Cooper-Moore/Gerald Cleaver: In The Swarm
Brandon Seabrook | Cooper-Moore | Gerald Cleaver
With electictic instrumentation including a banjo and a diddley-bow (the primitive one-string contraption that sat at the heart of early...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2022
The Underflow
David Grubbs | Mats Gustafsson | Rob Mazurek
Though recorded live in Athens, Greece – at the Underflow Record Shop And Art Gallery, thus gifting the project its...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2020
Mary Stallings: Songs Were Made to Sing
A celebration of a lifetime in jazz (including stints with Cal Tjader, Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie and the Count Basie...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2019
Alex Sipiagin: Ascent To The Blues
Alex Sipiagin | Art Hirahara | Boris Kozlov | Diego Rivera | Rudy Royston
Sipiagin has been a mainstay of the New York scene since moving from Russia in 1990, and has been a...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2022
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