Review of Enrico Rava/Fred Hersch: The Song Is You

Enrico Rava/Fred Hersch: The Song Is You

Enrico Rava | Fred Hersch

Editor's Choice

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

Enrico Rava has a particular affinity for working in duo with pianists, his notable previous collaborators including Stefano Bollani and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2022

Review of Tom Rainey Trio: Camino Cielo Echo

Tom Rainey Trio: Camino Cielo Echo

Ingrid Laubrock | Mary Halvorson | Tom Rainey

Intakt

Rating: ★★★

This is the follow up to the idiosyncratic New York-based drummer Tom Rainey's long awaited debut recording Pool School from...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2012

Review of Ben Powell: New Street

Ben Powell: New Street

Aaron Darrell | Devin Drobka | Gary Burton | Julian Lage | Powell | Tadataka Unno

Ben Powell Music–1

Rating: ★★★

No violinist could fully recapture the exultant genius that was Stéphane Grappelli, but tonally at least, Ben Powell comes darn...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: August/2012

Review of Benjamin Croft: 10 Reasons To…

Benjamin Croft: 10 Reasons To…

Andy Davies | Benet McLean | Benjamin Croft | Henry Thomas | Mario Castronari | Peter Miles | Saleem Raman | Tristan Maillot

33 Jazz

Rating: ★★★

Croft sounds like an original, adept at working with artists as diverse as Lesley Garrett and The Platters. This is...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2019

Review of Huw V Williams: Constantly Moving Happiness Machines

Huw V Williams: Constantly Moving Happiness Machines

Huw V Williams | Jonathan Lindhorst | Mark Pringle | Max Santner

Self-release/Bandcamp

Rating: ★★★★

This project is self-effacingly underpinned by bassist Huw V Williams, a sought after low-end virtuoso from North Wales, whose work...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: March/2023

Review of Jazzmeia Horn: Love and Liberation

Jazzmeia Horn: Love and Liberation

Ben Williams | Jamison Ross | Jazzmeia Horn | Josh Evans | Stacey Dillard | Sullivan Fortner | Victor Gould

Editor's Choice

Concord

Rating: ★★★★

Winner of the 2015 Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Competition, the Dallas-born, NYC-based vocalist Jazzmeia Horn released one of the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2019

Review of Horace Tapscott conducting The Pan-Afrikan People’s Arkestra: The Call

Horace Tapscott conducting The Pan-Afrikan People’s Arkestra: The Call

Adele Sebastian | Archie Johnson | David Bryant | Everett Brown Jnr | Herbert Callies | Horace Tapscott | James Andrews | Jesse Sharps | Kamonta Lawrence Folk | Lester Robertson

Nimbus West/Pure Pleasure

Rating: ★★★★

Just when the extensive and long overdue reissue programme of the music of Horace Tapscott looks set to have finished,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2021

Review of Human Element

Human Element

Arto Tunçboyaciyan | Gary Novak | John McLaughlin | Matthew Garrison | Scott Kinsey

Abstract Logix

Rating: ★★★★

Late great keyboardist and sonic innovator Joe Zawinul's groove fuelled, pan-global blueprint, established via Weather Report then his long running...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: June/2011

Review of Christine Jensen: Day Moon

Christine Jensen: Day Moon

Adrian Vedady | Christine Jensen | Jim Doxas | Steve Amirault

Editor's Choice

Justin Time

Rating: ★★★★

Day Moon contains a series of compositions by the acclaimed Canadian saxophonist Christine Jensen that reflect her state of mind...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2023

Review of Ahmad Jamal: Four Classic Albums

Ahmad Jamal: Four Classic Albums

Ahmad Jamal | Israel Crosby | Vernell Fournier

AvidJazz

Rating: ★★★

The first thing to say, perhaps, is that, as well as becoming unintentionally topical, this reissue is (like Avid’s collection...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2023

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