Dexter Gordon: Daddy Plays The Horn
Dexter Gordon | Kenny Drew | Larry Marable | Leroy Vinnegar
In a perfect world, had things not gone all possession, penitentiary and parole boards, the 1950s could have been Dexter...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2024
Bobby Shew Quintet: Class Reunion
Bill Mays | Bob Magnusson | Bobby Shew | Gordon Brisker | Steve Schaeffer
This is the moment that Bobby Shew (who had moved to LA earlier in the decade) took the decision to...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2018
Soweto Kinch: Nonagram
Gregory Hutchinson | Nick Jurd | Ruben James | Soweto Kinch
Kinch's 2014 The Legend Of Mike Smith was predicated on the seven deadly sins and this latest offering from the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
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
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