Review of Tony Lakatos: Standard Time

Tony Lakatos: Standard Time

Ant Law | Dame Evelyn Glennie | Rich Harrold | Richard Kass | Steve Lehman

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

Though hardly a household name, Tony Lakatos has appeared on over 150 CDs and name-checks the likes of Terri Lyne...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: May/2018

Review of The Fresh Sound Ensemble: Common Threads

The Fresh Sound Ensemble: Common Threads

Adele Sauros | Alex Hitchcock | Alex Merritt | Conor Chaplin | Jay Davis | John Turville | Michael Chillingworth | Ronan Perrett | Sam Braysher | Steve Fishwick

Fresh Sound New Talent

Rating: ★★★

After launching the likes of Ambrose Akinmusire, Robert Glasper and Kris Davis onto the international scene, the Spanish label Fresh...

Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: March/2023

Review of Joe Hertenstein: Future Drone

Joe Hertenstein: Future Drone

Achim Tang | Joe Hertenstein | Jon Irabagon

JazzWerkstatt

Rating: ★★★

The genesis of this first-meeting free jazz power trio is in the 2011 Moers festival. Hertenstein and Tang performed there...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2012

Review of Onyx Brass: Onyx Noir

Onyx Brass: Onyx Noir

Alan Thomas | Amos Miller | Andrew Sutton | David Gordon-Shute | Niall Keatley

NMC

Rating: ★★★★

Compared to the kind of all-brass groups pumping out rasping brass onslaughts and crowd-pleasing old-time grooves, Onyx Brass is a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2018

Review of Julia Hülsmann: In Full View

Julia Hülsmann: In Full View

Heinrich Köbberling | Julia Hülsmann | Marc Muellbauer | Tom Arthurs

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

For her third release on the ECM label, the Berlin-based pianist Julia Hülsmann shifts format from trio to quartet. The...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

Review of Sylvie Courvoisier, Mark Feldman, Ikue Mori, Evan Parker: Miller's Tale

Sylvie Courvoisier, Mark Feldman, Ikue Mori, Evan Parker: Miller's Tale

Evan Parker | Ikue Mori | Mark Feldman | Sylvie Courvoisier

Intakt Records Intakt

Rating: ★★★★

Miller's Tale is inspired not by Chaucer's tale of cuckoldry and buttock-baring but by Arthur Miller, with the opening track,...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: September/2016

Review of Ahmad Jamal: Saturday Morning: La Buissonne Studio Sessions

Ahmad Jamal: Saturday Morning: La Buissonne Studio Sessions

Ahmad Jamal | Herlin Riley | Manolo Badrena | Reginald Veal

Jazzbook Records

Rating: ★★★★

What a fuss everyone made over the cusp-septuagenarians The Rolling Stones playing Glastonbury in the summer! Seventy is nothing in...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2013

Review of Rain Sultanov: Influence

Rain Sultanov: Influence

Dagobert Böhm | Isfar Sarabski | Nils Ölmedal | Rain Sultanov

Ozella

Rating: ★★★

Rain Sultanov mans jazz's Azerbaijan outpost, running the Baku Jazz Festival and writing a history of the music in the...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: July/2020

Review of Fredrik Kronkvist: New York Elements

Fredrik Kronkvist: New York Elements

Aaron Goldberg | Fredrik Kronkvist | Gregory Hutchinson | Reuben Rogers

Connective Records

Rating: ★★★

The fruity-toned Swedish alto saxophonist's first New York recording is part celebration of the Big Apple's bustling multi-ethnic energy and...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: August/2012

Review of Simon Spillett Big Band: Dear Tubby H

Simon Spillett Big Band: Dear Tubby H

Alan Barnes | Alec Dankworth | Alex Garnett | Freddie Gavita | George Hogg | Ian Bateman | Jon Stokes | Mark Nightingale | Nathan Bray | Pete Cater

mister PC

Rating: ★★★★★

Everything about this first-ever release on drummer Pete Cater’s new mister PC label exudes class. The look of the album,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2023/2024

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