Magnus Bakken Quartet featuring George Garzone: Cycles
Christian Meaas Svendsen | George Garzone | Jon Audun Baar | Jørn Ølen | Magnus Bakken
Norwegian saxophonist Bakken spent four years at Berklee, where Garzone was one of his teachers, and this debut album neatly...
Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: March/2016
Sonny Stitt & Hank Jones Quartet/Quintet: Cherokee/Legendary Studio Sessions
In a parallel universe, if Usain Bolt had been cast as a saxophonist, he would have surely been Sonny Stitt...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: March/2018
Marc Copland: Nightfall
It’s not just the press release that modestly claims this is perhaps the best of Copland’s four unaccompanied albums, it’s...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2018
Cannonball Adderley/Bill Evans: Waltz For Debby
Bill Evans | Paul Motian | Scott LaFaro | Teddy Kotick
They say never judge a book by its cover. But how about these albums? For starters, the Adderley-Evans summit is...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: October/2019
O'Higgins & Luft: Play Monk & Trane
Dave O'Higgins | Rob Luft | Rod Youngs | Scott Flanigan
Here's a frontline to savour, with edgesome youth and deep jazz experience, two musicians with a sense of the out-there...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2019
Kurt Elling: Passion World
Clark Sommers | Gary Versace | John McLean | Kendrick Scott | Kurt Elling
Album number 11 from Kurt Elling sees the singer casting his stylistic net far and wide, its eclectic song list...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2015
Benjamin Koppel: Portable Infinity
Benjamin Koppel | Jacob Karlzon | Magnus Öström | Scott Colley
Danish saxophonist Koppel is joined by players from Sweden and the USA, recorded live at the RSI Television Studio 2...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: February/2025
Warren Wolf: Wolfgang
Warren Wolf is certainly the best new vibes player to emerge in recent years and this, his second outing for...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2013
Petter Eldh’s Koma Saxo: Koma West
The Swedish Berlin-based Petter Eldh is as inventive as he is prolific. He’s a genre-busting adventurer, more known as a...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2022
Multiquarium Big Band featuring Biréli Lagrène: Remembering Jaco
As modern-day bass behemoth Christian McBride once quipped: “There's bass before Jaco, and after Jaco…” and for many low-enders, getting...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: December/2020
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