Callum Allardice: Cinematic Light Orchestra
As I have previously flagged up in these pages, the Australian jazz scene (largely, but by no means totally, concentrated...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2024
Zzebra: Hungry Horse (Live in Germany 1975)
Alan Marshall | Dave Quincy | John McCoy | Lasisi Amao | Liam Genockey | Steve Byrd | Tommy Eyre
Watch out! There’s a Zzebra crossing. But where we are going, we don’t need roads… or warning signs. Just prick...
Reviewed by Chris Welch in issue: May/2024
Album Interview: Ian Shaw: A Ghost In Every Bar
Ian Shaw | Simon Wallace | Sue Richardson
Fran Landesman (1927-2011) will forever be associated with the two songs, now standards, she penned with Tommy Wolf in the...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2012
Brad Mehldau: Finding Gabriel
Finding Gabriel signals a radical departure from Mehldau's very recent recording projects, namely his stellar acoustic trio's Seymour Reads the...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2019
Mary Halvorson: Amaryllis/Belladonna
A new label and a flowering of new material from the ever-fecund Halvorson. There are actually two different albums which...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2022
The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra: Sons of Sauter Finegan
During the Swing Era, when big bands dominated jazz, Benny Goodman moved away from the certainties of his core repertoire...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2017
Charlie Parker: The Savoy 10-inch LP Collection
Hot on the heels of last month’s American Jazz Classics CD of virtually the same material comes this reissue of...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2020
Yuji Takahashi/Sabu Toyozumi: The Quietly Clouds And A Wild Crane
Sabu Toyozumi | Yuji Takahashi
This latest batch of releases from Lithuanian label NoBusiness (as part of their ongoing partnership with Japanese imprint Chap Chap)...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2023
Wadada Leo Smith Great Lakes Quartet: The Chicago Symphonies
Henry Threadgill | Jack DeJohnette | John Lindberg | Jonathan Haffner | Wadada Leo Smith
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
Bobbie Gentry: The Windows of The World
Bobbie Gentry | uncredited musicians
What's the enigmatic creator of ‘Ode To Billie Joe’ and ‘Fancy’ doing in Jazzwise then? A good question, and one...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2021
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