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
Da Lata: Fabiola
The British outfit that brought a vibrant, contemporary slant to Brazilian music throughout the 1990s return with an album that...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Gordon Grdina’s The Marrow with Fathieh Honari: The Marrow With Fathieh Honari
Fathieh Honari | Gordon Grdina | Hamin Honari | Hank Roberts | Mark Helias
Although the oud is one of the emblematic instruments of the Middle East, it has been deployed to good effect...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2024
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
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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