Review of Pierrick Pédron: Fifty-Fifty New York Sessions

Pierrick Pédron: Fifty-Fifty New York Sessions

Larry Grenadier | Marcus Gilmore | Pierrick Pédron | Sullivan Fortner

Gazebo GAZ

Rating: ★★★

Jazz saxophone styles have mutated in unimagined ways since Charlie Parker's day, but the best negotiators of bebop's harmonic mazes...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2021

Review of Album Interview: Brad Mehldau Trio: Seymour Reads The Constitution!

Album Interview: Brad Mehldau Trio: Seymour Reads The Constitution!

Brad Mehldau | Jeff Ballard | Larry Grenadier

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

Brad Mehldau's teasing talent for setting a mood of fascinating expectation and then unhurriedly revealing its multiple implications has been...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2018

Review of Stefano Bollani: Sheik Yer Zappa

Stefano Bollani: Sheik Yer Zappa

Jason Adasiewicz | Jim Black | Josh Roseman | Larry Grenadier | Stefano Bollani

Decca

Rating: ★★

With a stellar band and the whole Zappa universe to choose from, expectations for this project come high. Bollani himself...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2015

Review of Lage Lund: Terrible Animals

Lage Lund: Terrible Animals

Lage Lund | Larry Grenadier | Sullivan Fortner | Tyshawn Sorey

Criss Cross Jazz (CD)

Rating: ★★★★

Lund's credentials are gold plated: Juillard, Berklee and a Fulbright scholarship seem to point inevitably toward jazz's glittering prizes. Yet...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2019

Review of Wolfgang Muthspiel: Rising Grace

Wolfgang Muthspiel: Rising Grace

Ambrose Akinmusire | Brad Mehldau | Brian Blade | Larry Grenadier | Wolfgang Muthspiel

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

Line-ups don't come much more star-studded than this one, but it remains a fact that such endeavours in jazz often...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Review of Fly: Year of the Snake

Fly: Year of the Snake

Jeff Ballard | Larry Grenadier | Mark Turner

ECM

Rating: ★★★

This is Fly's second album for ECM, and displays pleasing signs of artistic growth, displayed most obviously in ensemble cohesion...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2012

Review of Brad Mehldau Trio: Where Do You Start

Brad Mehldau Trio: Where Do You Start

Brad Mehldau | Jeff Ballard | Larry Grenadier

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

As the Keith Jarrett of his generation, the acme of jazz piano for Generation X-ers just as the savant from...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: October/2012

Review of New Zion Trio: Fight Against Babylon

New Zion Trio: Fight Against Babylon

Craig Santiago | Jamie Saft | Larry Grenadier

Veal Records

Rating: ★★★★

Keyboardist Jamie Saft's closest associations have been with drummer Bobby Previte as a long-term sideman and John Zorn, a kinship...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Review of Joey Alexander: Countdown

Joey Alexander: Countdown

Chris Potter | Dan Chmielinski | Joey Alexander | Larry Grenadier | Ulysses Owens Jr Owens Jr

Motéma/Membran

Rating: ★★★

The jazz piano wünderkind Joey Alexander is a protégé of Wynton Marsalis and has been feted by Herbie Hancock. On...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2016

Review of John Scofield: Past Present

John Scofield: Past Present

Bill Stewart | Joe Lovano | John Scofield | Larry Grenadier

Impulse!

Rating: ★★★★

Art born from tragedy doesn't always cut it, no matter how sympathetic we may be to the artist's pain. Yet...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

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