Jon Balke/Siwan: Halfa
Norwegian ECM lifer Balke relentlessly explores musical connections, from his decade-long West African band E’Olen to this third album since...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2022
George Garzone/Alan Pasqua/Derek Oles/Peter Erskine: 3 Nights In LA
Alan Pasqua | Derek Oles | George Garzone | Peter Erskine
If proof were needed that bebop-rooted, standard-songform jazzmaking can feel as contemporary as today's headlines, this live set – captured...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Enrico Pieranunzi Quartet: New Spring – Live At The Village
Clarence Penn | Donny McCaslin | Enrico Pieranunzi | Scott Colley
This is such a classy record in every respect. The musicians – and the musicianship – are of the highest...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2017
ReDiviDeR: Meets I Dig Monk, Tuned
They're a playful lot, this two-hornsno-chords quartet from Dublin. Never Odd or EveN, the title of their first album, like...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Fini Bearman: La Loba
Captivating a cappella intros, soaring choruses, tintinnabulating codas. Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Fini Bearman's fourth album La Loba limns an...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2020
Klaus Gesing/Björn Meyer/Samuel Rohrer: amiira
Björn Meyer | Klaus Gesing | Samuel Rohrer
As Jack DeJohnette's recent trio release, In Movement, with Ravi Coltrane and Matthew Garrison, proved, it's the bass guitar that...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: August/2016
Béla Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio: Across The Imaginary Divide
Béla Fleck | Jason Marsalis | Marcus Roberts
Jazz fans no longer swap banjo jokes – “Banjo for sale: recently tuned” or “Q: What do you call a...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: October/2012
Kit Downes: Light From Old Stars
Calum Gourlay | James Maddren | Kit Downes | Lucy Railton
Welcome to the old, and new, worlds of Kit Downes. Although released under his own name, the band is essentially...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2013
Jared Gold: Reemergence
Billy Hart | Dave Stryker | Jared Gold | Jeremy Pelt
Jared Gold's annual releases on the Posi-Tone label established him as a technically advanced organist whose fluent lines and precision...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: August/2018
Chris Connor: The Early Years: Singles and Albums 1952-56
For a singer who was quite as popular, well-known and long-lived as Chris Connor, touring in late 1950s packages with...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/January/2021/2022
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