Dave Stryker with Bob Mintzer and the WDR Big Band: Blue Soul
The Cologne-based WDR Big Band's tight discipline and springy bounce reflect a long history of tailoring their riffs, shimmers and...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2020
Katriona Taylor: Blind Passion
There's a long tradition of blind and visually-impaired jazz musicians, from Art Tatum, Lennie Tristano and George Shearing through to...
Reviewed by Jon Clay in issue: May/2021
Elvin Jones Jazz Machine: Remembrance
Jessica Radcliffe | Joe Downard | Mark Lockheart | Sam James | Tom Dennis | Will Glaser
The short crisp press roll that sets up the opening track stamps Remembrance as an Elvin Jones album right from...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: April/2019
Bud Powell: 1962 Stockholm/Oslo
Bud Powell | Erik Amundsen | Ole Jakob Hansen | Sune Spangborg | Thorbjörn Hultcrantz
A follow-up to the Powell collection 1962 Copenhagen (reviewed in Jazzwise 269), these informal recordings of reasonable technical quality were...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2022
Peter Brötzmann/Paul G Smyth: Tongue in a Bell
This live (and lively) collaboration between German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and Irish pianist Paul G Smyth kicks off with both...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: October/2020
Peter Brötzmann/Majid Bekkas/Hamid Drake: Catching Ghosts
Hamid Drake | Majid Bekkas | Peter Brötzmann
If you think of Gnawa as the Moroccan blues then it makes sense that jazz musicians are repeatedly drawn to...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2023
Ben Wolfe: The Understated
Aaron Kimmel | Ben Wolfe | Nicole Glover | Russell Malone | Sullivan Fortner
This quintet’s collective energy shines out on the second track here, called ‘Occam’s Razor’, underpinned by Wolfe’s bass work, partly...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2024
John Edwards/NO Moore/Eddie Prévost/Alan Wilkinson: EMPoWered
Alan Wilkinson | Eddie Prévost | John Edwards | NO Moore
Presented with an album of improvised music containing just two tracks – one 30 minutes long, the other 20 –...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2022
Fred Frith: Storytelling: Live at Theater Gütersloh
Fred Frith | Lotte Anker | Sam Dsler
This live recording is presented by the German Jazz Thing magazine as part of a series entitled ‘European Jazz Legends’...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018
Wayne Krantz: Write Out Your Head
Krantz keeps the constant surprise going with a release which is at once more composed, in both mood and construction,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2020
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