Jake Leckie: Planter of Seeds
Beth Goodfellow | Cathlene Pineda | Darius Christian | Jake Leckie | Nadav Peled | Randal Fisher
"Jake Leckie creates rootsy acoustic organic funky folk-jazz for the people!" So says Leckie’s own website, and who can disagree?...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2024
Benjamin Koppel/Joe Lovano: The Mezzo Sax Encounter
Benjamin Koppel | Joe Lovano | Jonathan Blake | Kenny Werner | Scott Colley
Pitched midway between the soprano and alto, the mezzo sax combines the tonal qualities of both. It adds the alto's...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
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
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
Wolfgang Muthspiel: Angular Blues
Brian Blade | Scott Colley | Wolfgang Muthspiel
In 2014, the lyrical, meticulously nuanced music of the Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel found its way to the ECM label...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2020
Doubling down on bass: Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer: But Who’s Going To Play The Melody?
Chrstian McBride | Edgar Meyer
Team up one of the world’s leading classical bassists with his counterpart from the jazz environment, and the results should...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2024
Jason Palmer: Rhyme And Reason
Jason Palmer | Kendrick Scott | Mark Turner | Matt Brewer
Improvising musicians have long adapted each other’s songs to create new work, and this album is an invigorating example of...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2019
Patrick Cornelius: While We're Still Young
US alto-saxophonist Cornelius is a semi-regular visitor to Britain, often at the behest of bassist Mike Janisch and it’s on...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2016
Various Artists: This Is Flying Dutchman 1969-1975
BGP, one of the foremost curators of classic independent black music, has issued many titles on the pioneering Flying Dutchman...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2023
Immanuel Wilkins: The 7th Hand
Following the buzz around his debut Omega released in 2020 on Blue Note, the 24-year-old Philadelphia born-and-raised alto saxophonist-composer Immanuel...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2022
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