Garzone/Tiberi Quintet: Audacity

A renowned educator (Mark Turner and Joshua Redman were among his pupils) George Garzone blows hot and cool on post-Coltrane...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Frank Carlberg-Noah Preminger: Whispers and Cries

The Brooklyn-based saxophonist Noah Preminger, who at times here is reminiscent of Joshua Redman, gets together with pianist Frank Carlberg...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018

Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society: Mandatory Reality

Ben Boye | Ben LaMar Gay | Ben Lamar Gay | Hamid Drake | Jason Stein | Joshua Abrams | Lisa Alvarado | Mikel Avery | Nick Mazzarela

Natural Information Society's fifth album since forming in 2010 – and its second double-album, following 2015's equally expansive Magnetoception –...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2019

Ornette Coleman: Friends And Neighbors: Live At Prince Street

Charlie Haden | Dewey Redman | Ed Blackwell | Ornette Coleman

Although the sleeve credit ‘…and the voices of friends and neighbors’ suggests a footnote, if not an afterword to the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2024

Ornette Coleman: Friends And Neighbours

Charlie Haden | Dewey Redman | Ed Blackwell | friends and neighbours | Ornette Coleman

One of the great sleeves in jazz features kids seemingly untouched by the self-destructive nature of the adult world, and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2013

Brad Mehldau, Kevin Hays: Modern Music

Brad Mehldau | Kevin Hays

There has been no shortage of Brad Mehldau albums in recent times – the solo Live in Marciac, Highway Rider...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2011

Ornette Coleman Quartet: Live In Paris 1971

Charlie Haden | Dewey Redman | Ed Blackwell | Ornette Coleman

Furious debate may rage over what constitutes the best band that Ornette has ever led but this memorable gig undoubtedly...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2015

Madwort Saxophone Quartet: Live at Hundred Years Gallery

Andrew Woolf | Cath Roberts | Chris Williams | Tom Ward

Saxophone quartets have a tendency to default towards an inert, generic power minimalism, generating music that is slave to the...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: May/2017

Keith Jarrett: Expectations

Charlie Haden | Dewey Redman | Keith Jarrett | Paul Motian | Sam Brown

Expectations was produced by Jarrett's manager George Avakian, who had produced the pianist's previous output for the Atlantic label. In...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2017

Azat Bayazitov: The Door Is Open

Adam Rogers | Azat Bayazitov | Boris Kozlov | David Kikoski | Samvel Sarkisyan

The St. Petersburg-based Rainy Days label launched in 2018 with a mission to present the vibrancy of current Russian jazz....

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: August/2020