Renee Rosnes: Kinds of Love
Carl Allen | Chris Potter | Christian McBride | Renee Rosnes | Rogério Boccato
The pianist-composer Renee Rosnes doesn’t get talked about very much in the jazz media but her spiritual alliances with a...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2021
Terry Gibbs Legacy Band: The Terry Gibbs Songbook
Danny Bacher | Gerry Gibbs | Harry Allen | Mike Gurrola | Scott Hamilton | Terry Gibbs | Tom Ranier
Rather remarkably, Terry Gibbs, the celebrated vibist and bandleader, is still with us at the great age of 98 –...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2023
Cedar Walton: The Trio 2
Billy Higgins | Cedar Walton | David Williams
Along with Barry Harris, Walton was a true keeper of the bebop flame. Unlike so many pianists in the 1970s,...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2023
Art Tatum: Jewels in the Treasure Box: The 1953 Chicago Blue Note Jazz Club Recordings
Art Tatum | Everett Barksdale | Slam Stewart
According to his biographer James Lester, it was around the time of this recording that Tatum heard from his doctor...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2024
Joonas Haavisto/Kestutis Vaiginis: Moon Bridge
Joonas Haavisto | Kestutis Vaiginis
One of Finland's most exciting jazz talents, Joonas Haavisto is perhaps best-known as a collaborator with the likes of singer-composer...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2024
Neoteric Ensemble: Volume 1
Adrian Miotti | James Fountain | Richard Watkin | Rob Buckland | Sarah Field | Toby Street
This is a versatile ensemble whose members span experience from classical to rock music via jazz. The pieces included here...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2024
Nigel Price Organ Trio: LIVE ’23
Joel Barford | Nigel Price | Peter Johnstone | Ross Stanley
The definition of jazz, as a specific musical form, was contested almost from its inception, but when the non-specialist audience...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: July/2024
Selma Savolainen: Horror Vacui
Eero Tikkanen | Max Zenger | Okko Saastamoinen | Selma Savolainen | Tomi Nikku | Toomas Keski-Säntti
The Latin title part-quotes Aristotle’s notion that “nature abhors a vacuum”, a suggestive phrase which helps Finnish singer-composer Selma Savolainen...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2024
Sam Eastmond: John Zorn’s Bagatelles Vol 16
This album is an enormous achievement in so many ways, not least in that Sam Eastmond is the first British...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: November/2023
Morning Glory
Chris Laurence | John Marshall | John Surman | John Taylor | Malcolm Griffiths | Terje Rypdal
Originally recorded for Chris Blackwell’s Island label in the early 1970s, this pair of albums from saxophonist John Surman saw...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: June/2016
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