The Fresh Sound Ensemble: Common Threads
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
Joe Hertenstein: Future Drone
Achim Tang | Joe Hertenstein | Jon Irabagon
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
The Johnny Dankworth Orchestra: The BBC Transcription Recordings Volume 2 & Volume 3
Volume One in this series of transcription discoveries was reviewed in our May 2015 issue. As before, these two further...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2016
Woody Shaw: The Complete Muse Sessions
Even for someone so gifted, Woody Shaw could easily have slipped off the radar were it not for the sheer...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2013
Onyx Brass: Onyx Noir
Alan Thomas | Amos Miller | Andrew Sutton | David Gordon-Shute | Niall Keatley
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
Julia Hülsmann: In Full View
Heinrich Köbberling | Julia Hülsmann | Marc Muellbauer | Tom Arthurs
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
Sylvie Courvoisier, Mark Feldman, Ikue Mori, Evan Parker: Miller's Tale
Evan Parker | Ikue Mori | Mark Feldman | Sylvie Courvoisier
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
Ahmad Jamal: Saturday Morning: La Buissonne Studio Sessions
Ahmad Jamal | Herlin Riley | Manolo Badrena | Reginald Veal
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
Rain Sultanov: Influence
Dagobert Böhm | Isfar Sarabski | Nils Ölmedal | Rain Sultanov
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
Fredrik Kronkvist: New York Elements
Aaron Goldberg | Fredrik Kronkvist | Gregory Hutchinson | Reuben Rogers
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
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