Pure Desmond: Pure Desmond Play James Bond Songs
Christian Flohr | Johann Weiss | Lorenz Hargassner | Sebastian Deufel
Like all of you, I like to think I take my jazz seriously. But you know what? Sometimes I just...
Reviewed by Nina Fortune in issue: April/2023
Terence Blanchard & The E-Collective: Breathless
The same group gave a somewhat underwhelming performance at last year's Tampere Jazz Happening and though this recording is a...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2015
Andrew Woodhead: Pendulums: Music for Bellringers, Improvisers & electronics
In his famous journal, the 14th century Moroccan scholar and explorer, Ibn Battuta, relates how, on hearing the bells of...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2021
Michel Sajrawy: Writings on the Wall
Ameen Atrash | Evgeni Maistrovski | Franck Dhersin | Michel Sajrawy | Valeri Lipets
Recorded in 2007, Writings on the Wall hasn't been sealed hermetically in the vaults for the past five years but...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013
R+R=Now: Live
After the 2018 studio set Collagically Speaking comes a live album drawn from a month-long residency by Robert Glasper, biggest...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2021
Billy Childs: Acceptance
Childs' last new release, 2017's Rebirth, was greeted with considerable pleasure in Jazzwise 218 and with nothing less than a...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2020
Michel Sajrawy: Arabop
Michel Sajrawy, a Palestinian of Christian faith with an Israeli passport and a British conservatory education, is a fusionist for...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2013
Eric Johnson & Mike Stern: Eclectic
Here's an unalloyed pleasure from two masters of their art: and there is much art in these fleet fingered maestros,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015
Monocled Man: Southern Drawl
Chris Montague | Jon Scott | Rory Simmons
When trumpeter Rory Simmons isn't touring and recording with Jamie Cullum, he's directing a huge bundle of creative energy into...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014
Benny Goodman: The Benny Goodman Hits Collection Vol 1: 1931-38
Acrobat has become the collector’s friend, the label’s thorough-going compilations a source of renewed pleasure for old hands; and a...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2024
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