Review of Fire!: Testament

Fire!: Testament

Andreas Werliin | Johan Berthling | Mats Gustafsson

Rune Grammofon

Rating: ★★★

This Swedish trio follow free jazz’s concept of sometimes feral discord designed to touch jazz’s raw roots, sometimes reaching right...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2024

Review of Rodrigo y Gabriela: Area 52

Rodrigo y Gabriela: Area 52

Anoushka Shankar | Carles Benavent | John Tempesta | Le Trio Joubran | Rodrigo y Gabriela | Samuel Formell Alfonso

Rubyworks

Rating: ★★★★

This Mexican acoustic rock duo has gone from busking on the streets of Dublin to selling out cavernous venues everywhere...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2012

Review of Ralph Alessi: Baida

Ralph Alessi: Baida

Drew Gress | Jason Moran | Nasheet Waits | Ralph Alessi

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

On the back of a particularly fertile spell of activity including a recent duo recording with Fred Hersch, the San...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Review of Album Interview: Michael Wollny: Nachtfahrten

Album Interview: Michael Wollny: Nachtfahrten

Christian Weber | Eric Schaefer | Michael Wollny

ACT

Rating: ★★★★

With the release of Weltentraum last year it seemed clear that Michael Wollny, voted European Jazz Musician of the Year...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2015

Review of Album Interview: The Two Minds Big Band: Dave O'Higgins and Peter Wraight

Album Interview: The Two Minds Big Band: Dave O'Higgins and Peter Wraight

Adam Linsley | Andy Lester | Callum Au | Dave O'Higgins | Gemma Moore | Geoff Gascoyne | Graham Harvey | Graham Russell | Henry Armburg Jennings | Judith O'Higgins

JVG Productions

Rating: ★★★

Well here’s a concept to tickle your imagination. O’Higgins and Wraight have known each other on and off for decades,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013

Review of Tigran: Mockroot

Tigran: Mockroot

Areni Agbabian | Arthur Hnatek | Ben Wendel | Chris Tordini | Nate Wood | Sam Minaie | Tigran Hamasyan

Nonesuch Records

Rating: ★★★★

You can't really put a label on what Tigran Hamasyan does. You can try, of course. You could certainly say...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2015

Review of New Orleans Rhythm Kings: Complete Recordings 1922-1925

New Orleans Rhythm Kings: Complete Recordings 1922-1925

Arnold Loyacano | Ben Pollack | Bill Eastwood | Bob Gillette | Charlie Cordilla | Chink Martin | Don Murray | Elmer Schoebel | Frank Snyder | George Brunies

Editor's Choice

Rivermont

Rating: ★★★★

As a group of young white players who, in the 1920s, had decided to build their music around the example...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: March/2019

Review of Fini Bearman: Porgy & Bess

Fini Bearman: Porgy & Bess

Fini Bearman | John Blease | Jon Cox | Matt Calvert | Ross Stanley

F-IRE Presents

Rating: ★★★★

Call it luck, call it happenstance, call it intuition, but just occasionally every element in a recording – the song...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2015

Review of The Roger Beaujolais Italian Trio: Barba Lunga

The Roger Beaujolais Italian Trio: Barba Lunga

Alessandro Pivi | Giacomo Dominici | Roger Beaujolais

StayTuned Records

Rating: ★★★

Vibes player Roger Beaujolais now has a long beard and celebrates the fact in the title of his new album...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2019

Review of Album Interview: Dan Berglund's Tonbruket: Nubium Swimtrip

Album Interview: Dan Berglund's Tonbruket: Nubium Swimtrip

Andreas Weliin | Dan Berglund | Johan Lindström | Martin Hederos

ACT

Rating: ★★★

For their third album on the award-winning ACT label, Tonbruket, the Swedish collective formed by ex-EST bassist Dan Berglund, take...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2013

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