Review of Maria Pia De Vito: Core (Coração)

Maria Pia De Vito: Core (Coração)

Chico Buarque | Ensemble Vocale Burnogualà | Gabriele Mirabassi | Huw Warren | Maria Pia De Vito | Roberto Rossi | Roberto Taufic

Jando

Rating: ★★★★

Beautifully recorded at Casa del Jazz in Rome and La Seine Studios in Paris – take a bow recording engineer...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2017

Review of Donald Byrd/Herbie Hancock: Royal Flush

Donald Byrd/Herbie Hancock: Royal Flush

Billy Higgins | Butch Warren | Cleveland Eaton | Donald Byrd | Herbie Hancock | Jimmy Cobb | Laymon Jackson | Pepper Adams | Philly Joe Jones | Teddy Charles

Jazz Images

Rating: ★★★

First things first; these sessions were all made and released under Byrd's leadership. I suspect that the opportunistic folk at...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Review of Mark Kavuma & Theo Erskine: Ultrasound

Mark Kavuma & Theo Erskine: Ultrasound

Mark Kavuma | Michael Shrimpling | Noah Stoneman | Shane Forbes | Theo Erskine

Banger Factory Records

Rating: ★★★

Every jazz generation gets the message in its own ways about the souful, bluesy and swinging 1950s/60s hard-bop style. The...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: February/2024

Review of BlankFor.ms/Jason Moran/Marcus Gilmore: Refract

BlankFor.ms/Jason Moran/Marcus Gilmore: Refract

BlankFor.ms | Jason Moran | Marcus Gilmore

Red Hook

Rating: ★★★★

There is a long, rich history of collaborations between producers-electronic artists and improvising musicians, and this is certainly one of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2023

Review of Bobby Hutcherson: Medina

Bobby Hutcherson: Medina

Bobby Hutcherson | Harold Land | Joe Chambers | Reggie Johnson | Stanley Cowell

Blue Note Tone Poet

Rating: ★★★★

The formation of Bobby Hutcherson’s quintet with Harold Land in California in early 1968, which followed a marijuana bust in...

Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: December/2024

Review of Daniel Sommer/ Arve Henriksen/ Johannes Lundberg: Sounds & Sequences

Daniel Sommer/ Arve Henriksen/ Johannes Lundberg: Sounds & Sequences

Arve Henriksen | Daniel Sommer | Johannes Lundberg

Editor's Choice

April Records

Rating: ★★★★

“Today some may see Nordic jazz or improvisation in the light of a certain long-term conventional notion of beauty: nature,...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: February/2025

Review of Charles Mingus: Reincarnations

Charles Mingus: Reincarnations

Booker Ervin | Charles McPherson | Charles Mingus | Dannie Richmond | Eric Dolphy | Jimmy Knepper | Jo Jones | Lonnie Hillyer | Nico Bunink | Paul Bley

Candid

Rating: ★★★

To say this is a follow-up to the Incarnations compilation (reviewed in Jazzwise 297) is to simplify a fairly complex...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2025

Review of Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet: Jersey

Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet: Jersey

Chris Morrissey | Fabian Almazan | Jason Rigby | Mark Guiliana

Motéma Music

Rating: ★★★

The focus of much of the 37-year-old New Jersey-born cutting edge contemporary drummer Mark Guiliana's work for most of this...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2017

Review of Michael Brecker

Michael Brecker

Charlie Haden | Jack DeJohnette | Kenny Kirkland | Michael Brecker | Pat Metheny

Impulse!

Although widely recognised as the most influential saxophonist since John Coltrane, and having already appeared on some 700 albums by...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2021

Review of Lambert: All This Time

Lambert: All This Time

Felix Weigt | Lambert | Luca Marini

Verve/Mercury

Rating: ★★★

Hamburg pianist Lambert wears a mask when he performs – and he first donned it long before Covid, moreover; the...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2023

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