Martial Solal: Martial Solal at Newport ‘63
Martial Solal | Paul Motian | Teddy Kotick
Pianist Martial Solal was born in Algeria and moved to Paris in February 1950 to further his career in jazz....
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2022
Branford Marsalis/Various: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Music from the Netflix Film
Branford Marsalis | Cedric Watson | Clint Johnson | Maxayn Lewis | Viola Davis
This is the official soundtrack to George C. Wolfe's excellent recent Netflix film based on the play of the same...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021
Mark Lewandowski: A Bouquet For Lady Day
Heidi Vogel | Liam Noble | Mark Lewandowski
Tributes to Billie Holliday are not in short supply: the woman christened Eleanora Fagan has become subsumed into an iconic...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: August/2023
Snorre Kirk: What A Day!
Alexander Honey Boulton | Anders Fjeldsted | Giacomo Smith | Joe Webb | Snorre Kirk
Danish drummer-composer Kirk has graced our pages a few times recently and the present quartet (minus Boulton who appears on...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2025
Clark Tracey: Meantime…
Chris Maddock | Clark Tracey | Daniel Casimir | Harry Bolt | Henry Armburg Jennings
This quintet is one of the liveliest and most creative groups of young musicians that Clark Tracey has led. The...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2014
Sonny Stitt & Hank Jones Quartet/Quintet: Cherokee/Legendary Studio Sessions
In a parallel universe, if Usain Bolt had been cast as a saxophonist, he would have surely been Sonny Stitt...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2018
Madison Carter: Polymorphic
Flora Carbo | Imogen Cygler | Jessica Lindsay Smith | Massillon Carter | Niran Dasika
As I have previously flagged up in these pages, the Australian jazz scene (largely, but by no means totally, concentrated...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2024
Sonny Rollins: Road Shows Vol. 3
This begins with a lengthy bout of applause, entirely justified by what follows. It's not just Rollins' infernally catchy riff...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2014
Marty Ehrlich Large Ensemble: A Trumpet in the Morning
Marty Ehrlich's arrangements for his disciplined, brass-heavy 15-piece ensembles remind me of the genre-crossing blends that the experimental big bands...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2014
Bobbie Gentry: The Windows of The World
Bobbie Gentry | uncredited musicians
What's the enigmatic creator of ‘Ode To Billie Joe’ and ‘Fancy’ doing in Jazzwise then? A good question, and one...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2021
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