Jim Black Trio: Somatic
Elias Stemeseder | Jim Black | Thomas Morgan
One of the most imaginative drummers in New York, Seattle’s Jim Black has worked with Tim Berne and Dave Douglas...
Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: March/2012
Barbara Thompson: Live at the BBC
How do you do box sets? Binge, dabble, coasters? Well, there's only one way to enjoy these 14 CDs. Over...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2021
Benny Goodman: The Sound Of Music
Dave Green | Henry Lowther | Jim Mullen | Stu Butterfield
Goodman plays songs from the movie with mixed results, but at their best, Fred Karlin's arrangements provide sound jazz fodder...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2010
John Turville: Head First
Dave Whitford | James Maddren | John Turville | Julian Argüelles | Robbie Robson
Though John Turville is one of the UK jazz scene's most perceptive heirs to the piano legacy of his former...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2019
The Bad Plus: the bad plus
Ben Monder | Chris Speed | Dave King | Reid Anderson
There is a sense of abandon and creative exuberance on this album, essentially the re-birth of The Bad Plus, in...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2022
Tom Barford: Bloomer
Billy Marrows | Dave Storey | Flo Moore | Rupert Cox | Tom Barford
Talk about fast-tracking; only last year the NYJO saxophonist Tom Barford was collecting his first-class honours as a Royal Academy...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2018
Rendell/Carr Quintet: BBC Jazz Club April 1965
Dave Green | Don Rendell | Ian Carr | Michael Garrick | Trevor Tomkins
The Rendell/Carr Quintet had already recorded Shades of Blue in October 1964, the band’s then pianist, Colin Purbrook, who would...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2024
Billy Childs: The Winds of Change
Ambrose Akinmusire | Billy Childs | Brian Blade | Scott Colley
The title track was originally written for Roy Hargrove and a large accompanying orchestra, but Childs' mission on this album...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2023
Yuri Honing Acoustic Quartet: Goldbrun
Gulli Gudmunsson | Joost Lijbaart | Wolfert Brederode | Yuri Honing
In 2018, there’s nothing new in jazz musicians presenting versions of post-Beatles pop tunes. You might even say it’s the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2018
Aarhus Jazz Orchestra: Lars MØteller’s Rewrite of Spring
Dave Liebman | Lars Møller | Marilyn Mazur
Big bands are very much a part of the European jazz scene in a way that they are not in...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2016
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