David Hazeltine Trio: Blues for Gerry
David Hazeltine | Joe Farnsworth | Peter Washington
Hazeltine, born 1958 in Milwaukee and a New Yorker by adoption long since, crops up often on albums by his...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2023
George Freeman: The Good Life
Carl Allen | Christian McBride | George Freeman | Joey DeFrancesco | Lewis Nash
The youngest and last survivor of the famed Chicago-based Freeman brothers, guitarist George worked with the family at first and...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2023
Eddie Gripper: Home
Eddie Gripper | Isaac Zuckerman | Ursula Harrison
The UK has produced some extraordinary jazz pianists of late: Deschanel Gordon (who has recorded with Tomorrow's New Quartet), Sultan...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: June/2023
Joshua Jaswon Octet: Polar Waters
It’s refreshing to hear this band, led by British-born, Berlin-based Jaswon, that has both created a very distinct and individual...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2023
Julius Rodriguez: Evergreen
Drummer, pianist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and (since he’s still only 25) wunderkind Julius Rodriguez has spent several years as a...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2024
Fats Waller: All the Hits and More 1922-1943
If you’ve never had access to a collection of Fats Waller’s work, both as a solo pianist and as the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2024
Steve Lehman/Orchestre National De Jazz: Ex Machina
Chris Dingman | Frederic Maurin | Jonathan Finlayson | Steve Lehman
Having established himself as one of the 2000s' pivotal composer-improvisers with a series of small group recordings, American alto saxophonist...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Loz Speyer’s Inner Space: Live In Leipzig
Dee Byrne | Gary Willcox | Larry Bartley | Loz Speyer | Xhosa Cole
To judge by this live outing, it must be fun to be in Loz Speyer’s band. It’s the third time...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: September/2024
McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson: Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’
Henry Grimes | Jack DeJohnette | Joe Henderson | McCoy Tyner
The partnership between Tyner and Henderson had developed in the studio in the years leading up to this live session,...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/2024
Wadada Leo Smith: Heart's Refl ections
The vast discography that Smith has built over some four decades has myriad strands. African and oriental-inflected compositions that often...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2011
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