The Dissolute Society: Soldiering On
The Dissolute Society is a new octet led by British trombonist Raph Clarkson, of punk-jazz band WorldService Project. This debut...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: June/2018
Connie Han: Iron Starlet
Bill Wysake | Connie Han | Ivan Taylor | Jeremy Pelt | Walter Smith III
Going by just appearance, you might mistake the 24-year old pianist Connie Han for a glamorous female classical crossover artist...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2020
Max Roach: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note
Alan Silva | Andrew Hill | Ben Riley | Clifford Jordan | Freddie Waits | Rufus Reid
Max Roach, in cahoots with Kenny Clarke and Art Blakey rewrote the modern jazz drumming rule book back in the...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2016
Enrico Pieranunzi and Bert Joris: Afterglow
Bert Joris | Enrico Pieranunzi
In these dark times, it is wonderful to hear an album on which every track is a joy, an illuminating...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2021
Gilles Peterson: Magic Peterson Sunshine
Along with ECM, ENJA and ACT, MPS has a secure place in the pantheon of great German jazz labels. Between...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2016
Jaimeo Brown: Transcendence
Brown’s illustrious label-mate David Murray, son of a gospel singer no less, has been vocal about the importance of the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2013
Mosaic: Subterranea
Cecilia Bignall | James Copus | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Ralph Wyld | Sam Rapley | Scott Chapman
This is a highly accomplished band-leading debut by Kenny Wheeler Prize-winner Ralph Wyld, strong in writing, textural detail and spiritual...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2017
Andrew Linham Quartet: Abandoned Silence
Andrew Linham | Dan Paton | Darren McCarthy | Rob Brockway
Young Leeds College of Music graduate Andrew Linham has been notching up the prizes of late, not least bagging a...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2012
Fred Hersch Trio: Ten Years/6 Discs
Eric McPherson | Fred Hersch | John Herbert
To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Fred Hersch Trio, whose personnel has remained constant throughout, Palmetto have released in...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Monocled Man: Bernabe Jurado
Chris Montague | Jon Scott | Rory Simmons
Trumpeter, composer and producer Rory Simmons' Monocled Man trio extends the resources of his thoughtfully long-spun, somewhat Kenny Wheeler-like trumpet...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2020
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