Let Spin: Let Go
Chris Williams | Finlay Panter | Moss Freed | Ruth Goller
The four piece Let Spin were described as a ‘new prog-jazz supergroup’ in this mag at the time of the...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2015
Esbjörn Svensson: Home. S.
In August 2004, I was in Stockholm to witness e.s.t. record their album Viaticum. I arrived at the recording studio...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Orchestre National de Jazz: Piazzolla!
There aren't many jazzers with airports named in their honour. In fact, aside from Argentine bandoneón player extraordinaire Astor Piazzolla,...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2013
Charles Mingus: Tijuana Moods
How to cover such classic stuff in a typical review space? While Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) was startling enough, Tijuana Moods...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2016
The Chico Hamilton Quintet: A Different Journey
Albert Stinson | Charles Lloyd | Chico Hamilton | Gabor Szabor | George Bohanon
This valuable re-release is a part of Warner Japan's ‘Jazz: Best Collection 1000’ series of 24 bit remastered classics, mainly...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2014
Gary Burton: Something's Coming!/The Groovy Sound of Music/The Time Machine
These Burton albums precede his artistically successful amalgam of jazz and rock he initially introduced on Duster in 1967. It...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2016
Tigran: Shadow Theater
The 26-year-old Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan didn't cause a lot of fuss when he won the prestigious Thelonious Monk Piano...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014
Walter Butler/Snoots Pearson: Baubles, Bangles and Tweeds: Live at the Isle of Harris Jazz Festival
Snoots Pearson | Walter Butler
“Walter, well, he could play just about anything: Harlem stride, barrelhouse, swing, bop. Not that he could play any of...
Reviewed by J. J. Geiger in issue: October/2017
Esperanza Spalding: Emily’s D+ Evolution
“Nobody has to know the moral of my show,” Esperanza Spalding sings on ‘Funk the Fear’, and fusillades of fresh...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2016
JD Allen: Toys/Die Dreaming
Ian Kenselaar | JD Allen | Nic Cacioppo
Saxophonist JD Allen has been squeezing the history of the tenor sax into the bare bones of a sax, bass...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2020
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