Delfeayo Marsalis and The Uptown Jazz Orchestra: Make America Great Again!
This arrived in my mailbox just a day after the US election, but the deeper irony is that Marsalis's aim...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2017
Kalle Kalima & Knut Reiersrud: Flying Like Eagles
Jim Black | Kalle Kalima | Knut Reiersrud | Phil Donkin
If you're looking for some authentic misty-mountain topped Nordic jazz from this Finnish-Norwegian guitar collaboration you've come to the wrong...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2019
Mack Avenue Superband: Live From The Detroit Jazz Festival 2015
The Mack Avenue label is old school in a good way. For a start it embraces the players who, for...
Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: April/2016
The Rodriguez Brothers: Impromptu
The last Rodriguez Brothers album was in 2008 on HighNote and made this writer's Top 10 releases list. Since then...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: August/2015
Nina Simone: Just Cares For You: Her Best Songs
Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath | Jimmy Bond | Nina Simone | The Malcom Dodds Singers orchestra
Diehard Nina Simone fans will doubtless already have all of the recordings from which the 68 tracks of Just Cares...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2015
Ananda Gari: T-Duality
Ananda Gari | Michael Formanek | Rez Abbasi | Tim Berne
The influential alto saxophonist Tim Berne is prominently featured here in a quartet led by a young Italian drummer Ananda...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015
Yuri Goloubev: Titanic for a Bike
Asaf Sirkis | Claudio Filippini | Julian Argüelles | Yuri Goloubev
Russian-born double bassist Yuri Goloubev had a deep grounding in classical music before moving to Italy and dedicating himself to...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2012
Jamie Saft Quartet: Blue Dream
Bill McHenry | Bradley Christopher Jones | Jamie Saft | Nasheet Waits
What strikes you immediately is the lengths Saft goes to to create a soundworld evoking McCoy Tyner and John Coltrane's...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2018
Steve Melling/Clark Tracey Special Septet: Special One
It’s taken a while for this to emerge but the wait was worth it. Something of a reunion of old...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2011
Tom Rainey Trio: Combobulated
Ingrid Laubrock | Mary Halvorson | Tom Rainey
Over the previous decade or so, the three musicians listed in the personnel above have in various permutations contributed a...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2019
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