Review of Bushman's Revenge: Et Hån Mot Overklassen

Bushman's Revenge: Et Hån Mot Overklassen

Even Helte Hermansen | Gard Nilssen | Rune Nergaard

Hubro

Rating: ★★★★

Where once rock musicians got it together in the country, this is the sound of instrumental rock being taken apart...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2019

Review of Gonzalo Rubalcaba: XXI Century

Gonzalo Rubalcaba: XXI Century

Gary Galimidi | Gonzalo Rubalcaba | Ignacio Berroa | Lionel Loueke | Marcus Gilmore | Matt Brewer | Pedrito Gonzales

5Passion

Rating: ★★★

Unlike Rubalcaba's first for his own label (the solo album Fé/Faith, reviewed in Jazzwise 155), this has a romping rhythm-section...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012

Review of Walter Bishop Jnr’s 4th Cycle: Keeper Of My Soul

Walter Bishop Jnr’s 4th Cycle: Keeper Of My Soul

Bahir Hassan | Gerald Brown | Ronnie Laws | Shakur M Abdulla | Walter Bishop | Woody Murray

Editor's Choice

Black Jazz/Real Gone Music

Rating: ★★★★

Held in high regard in collectors’ circles for albums such as Soul Village and Coral Keys, pianist Walter Bishop Jnr...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Review of Enzo Zirilli's Zirobop: Ten Past Never

Enzo Zirilli's Zirobop: Ten Past Never

Alessandro Chiappetta | Enzo Zirilli | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Rob Luft

Editor's Choice

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

I’ve only seen Zirilli play live once, and he was quite a fireball. Here he's all delicacy and laid-back restraint,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2023

Review of Chris Cheek: Saturday Songs

Chris Cheek: Saturday Songs

Chris Cheek | David Soler | Jaume Llombard | Jorge Rossy | Steve Cardenas

Sunnyside

Rating: ★★★

Admired in the UK by younger generations of saxophonists such as Adam Waldmann and guitarist Hannes Riepler (who recently partnered...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016

Review of Bix Beiderbecke: The Bix Beiderbecke Legend

Bix Beiderbecke: The Bix Beiderbecke Legend

Benny Goodman | Bill Challis | Bill Rank | Bing Crosby | Bix Beiderbecke | Bud Freeman | Chauncey Morehouse | Eddie Lang | Frankie Trumbauer | Gene Krupa

Poll Winners Records

Rating: ★★★

When George Avakian and Charles Edward Smith originally brought out this anthology of Beiderbecke’s work on LP in 1961, it...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2019

Review of George Colligan: The Facts

George Colligan: The Facts

Boris Koslov | Donald Edwards | George Colligan | Jaleel Shaw

SteepleChase

Rating: ★★★★

Now 43, Colligan has been recording – on umpteen keyboard instruments and with various sized combinations – for Nils Winther’s...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2013

Review of Béla Fleck: As We Speak

Béla Fleck: As We Speak

Béla Fleck | Edgar Meyer | Rakesh Chaurasia | Zakir Hussain

Thirty Tigers

Rating: ★★★

A meeting of the spirits that is hard not to welcome, but perhaps rather harder to enjoy to the utmost....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2023

Review of Monsieur MÂLÂ

Monsieur MÂLÂ

Balthazar Naturel | EU.CLIDES and Anna Kova | Nicholas Vella | Robin Antunes | Swaéli Mbappé | Yoann Danier

Bridge The Gap/Bandcamp

Rating: ★★★

In the style of American band Snarky Puppy, Monsieur MÂLÂ combines virtuosic musicianship with an almost unlimited array of influences....

Reviewed by Gail Tasker in issue: June/2024

Review of Nell Greco: Inanima

Nell Greco: Inanima

Jonathan Chung | Maria Chiara Argirò | Nell Greco | Pedro Velasco | Ruth Goller | Will Glaser

Clonmell Jazz Social

Rating: ★★★

Don’t come here for any ‘Moon/June’ lyrics. This may be singer-songwriter Greco’s debut, but the Bucks-based Aussie comes with a...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2024

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