Wayne Escoffery: Like Minds
Saxophonist Wayne Escoffery's latest album draws on the crosscurrents and connections of mainstream New York jazz. Bassist Ugonna Okegwo and...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: May/2023
Dave Douglas: Gifts
Dave Douglas | Ian Chang | James Brandon Lewis | Rafiq Bhatia
Despite run-outs with luminaries like Lage and Halvorson, Douglas isn’t best known for collaborating with guitarists, and certainly none has...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2024
John Escreet: The Epicenter of Your Dreams
Damion Reid | Eric Revis | John Escreet | Mark Turner
John Escreet’s latest album, a sax-and-rhythm quartet, balances trenchant acoustic modernism with the avant-garde and conjures strong emotions with angular...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2024
Hays Street Hart: Bridges
Ben Street | Billy Hart | Kevin Hays
The trio’s 2021 album All The Things You Are was live-streamed from the empty Smoke Jazz Club in New York...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2023
Mike Monford: The Cloth I’m Cut From
Monford’s 2012 debut was titled Perseverence – and fittingly so. Armed with a three-point remit - intention, application, community -...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2024
Wayne Escoffery: Alone
Carl Allen | Gerald Clayton | Ron Carter | Wayne Escoffery
The 49-year-old Jackie McLean-mentored tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery has high-pedigree recordings and live work under his belt, including lengthy stints...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2024
Alexi Tuomarila: Departing the Wasteland
Finnish pianist/composer Alexi Tuomarila’s European reputation has been growing steadily for 20 years, for a scalding improv virtuosity hitched to...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: February/2025
Dizzy Gillespie and Lalo Schifrin: Studio and Live Collaborations 1960-62
When Dizzy Gillespie’s big band went on a State Departmemt tour of Argentina in 1960, the trumpeter was so impressed...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2022
Punkt.Vrt.Plastik: Zurich Concert
Christian Lillinger | Kaja Draksler | Petter Eldh
You’ll find most piano-bass-drums instrumental line-ups filed under ‘piano trio jazz’ but there’s a collective ethos at work in the...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2022
Uri Caine Trio: Siren
Ben Perowsky | John Hebert | Uri Caine
As Caine has shown for the best part of 15 years, he has a consummate command of a wide range...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2011
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