Billy Drummond & Freedom of Ideas: Valse Sinestre
Billy Drummond | Dayna Stephens | Dezron Douglas | Micah Thomas
Billy Drummond last released an album under his own name on the Criss Cross label in 1996 – Dubai featured...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2022
Wayne Shorter Quartet: Without a Net
Brian Blade | Danilo Pérez | John Patitucci | Wayne Shorter
It was 44 years ago that Wayne Shorter made his debut on the Blue Note label, as a precocious 26-year-old...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2013
Mark Turner: Return From The Stars
Jason Palmer | Joe Martin | Jonathan Pinson | Mark Turner
This is the California and Berklee-raised saxophonist/composer's first quartet album since 2014's gracefully polyphonic Lathe of Heaven, and it repeats...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2022
Pierrick Pédron: Fifty-Fifty New York Sessions
Larry Grenadier | Marcus Gilmore | Pierrick Pédron | Sullivan Fortner
Jazz saxophone styles have mutated in unimagined ways since Charlie Parker's day, but the best negotiators of bebop's harmonic mazes...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2021
George Coleman: Live at Smalls Jazz Club
George Coleman | Joe Farnsworth | Peter Washington | Spike Wilner
This is the fifth album in Smalls’ Living Masters series, and the latest to receive this encomium is the venerable...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2023
Linda May Han Oh: The Glass Hours
Fabian Almazan | Linda May Han Oh | Mark Turner | Obed Calvaire | Sara Serpa
Linda May Han Oh, one of the most in-demand bass players on the scene and partner to jazz stars including...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2023
David Preston: Purple/Black Volume One
David Preston | Kevin Glasgow | Kit Downes | Seb Rochford
Championed in his heady youth by the likes of Ian Shaw and as likely now to be seen in the...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2023
Snorre Kirk: Top Dog
Anders Fjeldsted | Mads Kjølby | Magnus Hjorth | Michael Blicher | Snorre Kirk | Stephen Riley
We first came across the Denmark-based Norwegian drummer Kirk on an earlier Stunt issue and noted in Jazzwise 267 his...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2023
Tito Puente: El Rey Bravo
Puente was more than a decade into his professional career when he released El Rey Bravo in 1962. It was,...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2024
Charles Mingus: Incarnations
Reviewing the second of the two original Mingus releases on Candid in Jazzwise 289, I found myself requesting the re-release...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2024
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