Review of Jim Black Trio: Actuality

Jim Black Trio: Actuality

Elias Stemeseder | Jim Black | Thomas Morgan

Winter & Winter

Rating: ★★★★

Have Germany's Winter & Winter label stopped doing their special cardboard CD design packaging? Well, as they say, it's the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014

Review of New Regency Orchestra

New Regency Orchestra

Alexa Nava | Chris Williams | Eikel Venegas | Eliane Correa | Ernesto Marichales | Flavio Correa | Frank Portuondo | George Crowley | Jack Banjo Courtney | Joe Bristow

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★★

NRO is an 18-piece Afro-Cuban big band with a vibe straight out of the Nuyorican barrios and a repertoire variously...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2024

Review of Bill Thompson: Mouthful Of Silence

Bill Thompson: Mouthful Of Silence

Bill Thompson

Burning Harpsichord Records

Rating: ★★★★

Spread across two discs, these studio interpretations of a live performance from 2017 deftly distil Bill Thompson's artful approach to...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: November/2018

Review of Jim Black: Malamute

Jim Black: Malamute

Chris Tordini | Elias Stemeseder | Jim Black | Óskar Guðjónsson

Intakt

Rating: ★★★

Jim Black emerged in New York's downtown scene of the 1990s, playing alongside Dave Douglas and Tim Berne. He went...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: May/2017

Review of Hayden Prosser: Tether

Hayden Prosser: Tether

Elias Stemeseder | Hayden Prosser | Max Santner | Philipp Gropper

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Tether as in ‘the end of one's’ or as in a rope that anchors a moving object to a fixed...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2017

Review of Freddy Cole: My Mood Is You

Freddy Cole: My Mood Is You

Elias Bailey | Freddy Cole | Joel Frahm | John di Martino | Quentin Baxter | Randy Napoleon

HighNote

Rating: ★★★★

Aged 86 and a three-time Grammy nominee, on the Carl Sigman penned album opener and title-track Freddy Cole effortlessly highlights...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2018

Review of Otis Sandsjö: Y-OTIS

Otis Sandsjö: Y-OTIS

Elias Stemeseder | Frans Petter Eldh | Otis Sandsjö | Tilo Weber

We Jazz

Rating: ★★★

If you tipped the free jazz and electronica sections of your music collection into a jacuzzi, with a couple of...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: October/2018

Review of Terri Lyne Carrington: New Standards Vol. 1

Terri Lyne Carrington: New Standards Vol. 1

Ambrose Akinmusire | Anabel Gil Diaz | Dianne Reeves | Edmar Colon | Elena Pinderhughes | Julian Lage | Kris Davis | Linda May Han Oh | Matthew Stevens | Melanie Charles

Editor's Choice

Candid

Rating: ★★★★

One of the fascinations of listening to new jazz recordings comes when a spotlight is turned on artists and tunes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2022

Review of John Ghost: Airships Are Organisms

John Ghost: Airships Are Organisms

Elias Devoldere | Jo De Geest | Karel Cuelenaere | Lieven Van Pée | Rob Banken | Wim Segers

Sdban Ultra

Rating: ★★★

Belgian group John Ghost, led by the Ghent-based guitarist and composer Jo De Geest, return with this cryptically-titled release, which...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: October/2019

Review of René Marie: I Wanna Be Evil (With Love To Eartha Kitt)

René Marie: I Wanna Be Evil (With Love To Eartha Kitt)

Adrian Cunningham | Elias Bailey | Etienne Charles | Kevin Bales | Quentin Baxter | René Marie | Wycliffe Gordon

Motéma Music

Rating: ★★★★

I was a huge fan of René Marie’s previous two Motéma releases, Voice Of My Beautiful Country and Black Lace...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2013

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