Food: Mercurial Balm
This is an impressive follow-up to Food's 2010 debut on the ECM label, Quiet Inlet. More ambitious in scope, it...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013
Enrico Pieranunzi: Stories
Antonio Sanchez | Enrico Pieranunzi | Scott Colley
Cam Jazz only recently reissued the splendid double-CD Play Morricone set by Enrico Pieranunzi with Marc Johnson and Joey Baron,...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2014
Frederik Köster Quartett: Momentaufnahme
Frederik Köster | Niels Klein | Ralf Gessler | Robert Landfermann | Tobias Hoffmann
Formed in 2003, trumpeter Frederik Köster's Quartett released two albums, Constantly Moving and Zeichen der Zeit (Signs of the Time),...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2013
Emmanuel Abdul-Rahim: Harlem
When he was known as Juan Amalbert and led the Latin Jazz quintet in the 1960s, Emmanuel Abdul-Rahim worked with...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Andreas Varady
That the Slovakian-born guitarist is only 17 and a precociously gifted technician is the hook here. It starts promisingly with...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014
Walter Smith III: Return to Casual
Walter Smith III expresses his deep modern jazz roots with an airy tenor sax tone and a ferocious but understated...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: April/2023
Jimmy Greene: While Looking Up
Aaron Goldberg | Jimmy Greene | Kendrick Scott | Lage Lund | Reuben Rogers | Stefon Harris
The heavyweight support on American multi-instrumentalist Jimmy Greene's latest release are long-term acquaintances, who since recording with Greene, have developed...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2020
The Dialogues Trio: Twinkle Twinkle
Andrea Di Biase | Bruno Heinen | Jon Scott | Julian Siegel
‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ may not be a tune that grabs you by the throat, but the Dialogues Trio use...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2012
East Axis: No Subject
Gerald Cleaver | Kevin Ray | Matthew Shipp | Scott Robinson
‘Supergroup’ can be something of a throwaway term, but this gathering has players of sufficient stature to give the description...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2023
Sunna Gunnlaugs Trio & Verneri Pohjola: Ancestry
Porgrimus Jónsson | Scott McLemore | Sunna Gunnlaugs | Verneri Pohjola
Mr and Mrs McLemore (Sunna Gunnlaugs and Scott McLemore) are two important figures on the Icelandic jazz scene, with the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2019
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