Craig Handy: & 2nd Line Smith
Take the Jimmy Smith songbook, add a touch of contemporary jazz improvisation, and back it up with the beat of...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Michael Formanek: Small Places
Craig Taborn | Gerald Cleaver | Michael Formanek | Tim Berne
How much more ECM can you get? Not only is bassist/composer Michael Formanek an ECM artist but so are altoist...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013
Miles Okazaki: Trickster
Anthony Tidd | Craig Taborn | Miles Okazaki | Sean Rickman
The cover art is of a raven and fox sculpted from paper, and Miles Okazaki is keen to tell you...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: October/2017
Ches Smith: The Bell
Ches Smith | Craig Taborn | Mat Maneri
Drummer and percussionist are often interchangeable terms but Smith shows his distinct qualification for the latter on this adventurous, quite...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2016
Hafez Modizardeh: Facets
Craig Taborn | Hafez Modizardeh | Kris Davis | Tyshawn Sorey
Tenor saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh's previous releases such as 2012's Post-Chromodal Out! established him as an artist who was able to...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2021
Drew Gress: The Sky Inside
Craig Taborn | Drew Gress | Ralph Alessi | Tim Berne | Tom Rainey
Drew Gress has been a leading go-to bassist sideman over the past two decades in New York experimental jazz circles,...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013
Farmers By Nature: Love and Ghosts
Craig Taborn | Gerald Cleaver | William Parker
Jazz industry convention would call FBN a piano trio but that would be something of a restrictive term. Cleaver, Parker...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2014
Ingrid Laubrock: Serpentines
Craig Taborn | Dan Peck | Ingrid Laubrock | Miya Masaoka | Peter Evans | Sam Pluta | Tyshawn Sorey
Ingrid Laubrock's various recordings as leader for the Swiss Label Intakt have positioned her at the hub of Brooklyn's experimental...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017
Dave Holland's Prism: Prism
Craig Taborn | Dave Holland | Eric Harland | Kevin Eubanks
This is a startling deviation from the finely tuned precision of Holland’s ensembles, previously represented on the ECM label, Universal...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2013
Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth: Epicenter
Chris Cheek | Chris Lightcap | Craig Taborn | Gerald Cleaver | Tony Malaby
Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth have quietly been accumulating favourable reviews for almost 10 years now, but they really began to get...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2015
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