Review of Paula Rae Gibson featuring Matthew Bourne: Loving In Real Time

Paula Rae Gibson featuring Matthew Bourne: Loving In Real Time

Matthew Bourne | Paula Rae Gibson

33 Xtreme

Rating: ★★★

Matthew Bourne’s extensive hunger for collaboration was starved during lockdown, and the second of two summer days playing with Northeastern...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2024

Review of Shiver: Shiver Meets Matthew Bourne Volume 2

Shiver: Shiver Meets Matthew Bourne Volume 2

Andy Champion | Chris Sharkey | Joost Hendrickx | Matthew Bourne

Discus Music

Rating: ★★★

Matthew Bourne’s extensive hunger for collaboration was starved during lockdown, and the second of two summer days playing with Northeastern...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2024

Review of Wadada Leo Smith/Jack DeJohnette/Vijay Iyer: A Love Sonnet For Billie Holiday

Wadada Leo Smith/Jack DeJohnette/Vijay Iyer: A Love Sonnet For Billie Holiday

Jack DeJohnette | Vijay Iyer | Wadada Leo Smith

TUM CD060

Rating: ★★★★

As he stated himself in the pages of Jazzwise last year, Wadada Leo Smith’s productivity has only increased amid the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2022

Review of Michael Brecker Band & Randy Brecker Band: Live at Fabrik

Michael Brecker Band & Randy Brecker Band: Live at Fabrik

Adam Nussbaum | Bob Berg | David Kikoski | Dieter Ilg | Jeff Andrews | Joey Baron | Joey Calderazzo | Michael Brecker | Mike Stern | Randy Brecker

Jazzline Classics

Rating: ★★★

The Michael Brecker Band extensively toured in the late 1980s and 90s, and was widely expected to feature on Brecker's...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2022

Review of Wadada Leo Smith: Emerald Duets

Wadada Leo Smith: Emerald Duets

Andrew Cyrille | Han Bennink | Jack DeJohnette | Pheeroan aKLaff | Pheeroan akLaff | Wadada Leo Smith

TUM TumBox

Rating: ★★★★

A prolific output in the last decade has seen Smith explore many musical settings but the trumpeter's imagination knows no...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2022

Review of Serge Chaloff: Blue Serge

Serge Chaloff: Blue Serge

Leroy Vinnegar | Philly Joe Jones | Serge Chaloff | Sonny Clark

Capitol

Today, when Chaloff is remembered (if he is remembered at all), it is as a soloist in Woody Herman's Second...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2023

Review of Donny Hathaway: Never My Love: The Anthology

Donny Hathaway: Never My Love: The Anthology

Cornell Dupree | Donny Hathaway | Earl De Rouen | Fred White | Mike Howard | Phil Upchurch | Willie Weeks

Rhino/Atco

Rating: ★★★★

While the singer who wields a guitar – Curtis, Bobby, Terry – has pride of place in the soul music...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2014

Review of Julia Hülsmann Quartet: Under the Surface

Julia Hülsmann Quartet: Under the Surface

Benjamin Lackner | Heinrich Köbberling | Hildegunn Øiseth | Julia Hülsmann | Linda May Han Oh | Marc Muellbauer | Mark Turner | Mathias Eick | Matthieu Chazarenc | Uli Kempendorff

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

In June 2012 the Julia Hülsmann Trio became a quartet with the addition of Tom Arthurs on trumpet who stayed...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2025

Review of Charlie Parker: At Café Society

Charlie Parker: At Café Society

Al Haig | Art Blakey | Charles Mingus | Dick Hyman | Dick Twardzik | Duke Jordan | Herb Pomeroy | Irv Kluger | Jimmy Woode | Joe Gordon

Bird's Nest

Rating: ★★★

These three reissues, identified by their recording location, all carry polite warnings about the sound quality. The performances from Boston's...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2021

Review of Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet

Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet

Wadada Leo Smith

TUM Records

Rating: ★★★★

Turning 80 seems to be rejuvenating the already youthful Wadada Leo Smith. These two very different releases by the trumpeter...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2021

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