Josephine Davies: Satori
Dave Whitford | Josephine Davies | Paul Clarvis
Just as in a card game blow-hard bluffers can risk overplaying their hands, so in music hard-blowing jazzers are sometimes...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2017
Polly Gibbons: Is It Me…?
Graham Dechter | James Pearson | Kevin Axt | Polly Gibbons | Ray Brinker | Tamir Hendelman
Dazzling arrangements, superb playing and, right at its heart, the dynamic, mellifluous pipes of Polly Gibbons. This highly anticipated second...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2017
Stan Getz Quartet: At Birdland 1961
Jimmy Garrison | Roy Haynes | Stan Getz | Steve Kuhn
Just three short months separates these unauthorised low-fi Birdland airshots and an album, which was to spark the biggest worldwide...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: May/2013
Klaus Paier and Asja Valcic: Silk Road
Unlike their earlier collaboration, 2009's Deux, Croatian cellist Asja Valcic has contributed compositionally to add to the Austrian Paier's tunes...
Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: April/2013
Sarah Vaughan: Live in Berlin 1969
Eddy Pucci | Gus Mancuso | Johnny Veith | Sarah Vaughan
More good news for fans of ‘The Divine One’. Hot on the heels of last year's exceptional Live At Rosy's,...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2017
Nitin Sawhney: OneZero
Aref Durvesh | Ashwin Srinivasan | Nitin Sawhney | Soumik Datta
Can it really be 35 years since the last live, direct-to-vinyl recording? This sad state of affairs is addressed by...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2013
Monty Alexander: Uplift2
Frits Landesbergen | Hassan Shakur | Jeff Hamilton | John Clayton | Monty Alexander
Producer John Lee creates an unnecessary element of mystery by airily describing these tracks as “recorded at various concert...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2013
McCoy Tyner Trio: Inception/Reaching Fourth
Art Davis | Elvin Jones | Henry Grimes | McCoy Tyner | Roy Haynes
A two-for-one of Tyner's debut releases as leader. Not surprisingly, Inception is rich with Coltrane-esque echoes as this is the...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2012
Ayumi Tanaka Trio: Subaqueous Silence
Ayumi Tanaka | Christian Meaas Svendsen | Per Odvaar Johansen
The 35-year-old Japanese pianist moved to Norway 10 years ago, and has recorded one previous album with this trio and...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Kenny Werner: Me, Myself & I
A live club date from last year's Montréal Jazz Festival, this reminds me in some ways of the Werner solo...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012
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