Jason Robinson: Ancestral Numbers 11
Ches Smith | Drew Gress | Jason Robinson | Joshua White | Michael Dessen
Since his emergence in the late 1990s, Californian saxophonist Robinson has been developing an appealing contemporary jazz, which blends bop...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/2024
Mikael Máni: Nostalgia Machine
You might call Mikael Máni’s second studio album jazz; or on the other hand you might follow the Icelandic guitarist’s...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2021
Aaron Parks, Thomas Fonnesbæk, Karsten Bagge: Groovements
Aaron Parks | Karsten Bagge | Thomas Fonnesbæk
Now in his early 30s, Aaron Parks is one of the more interesting pianists to have emerged from the US...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2016
Old and New Dreams
Charlie Haden | Dewey Redman | Don Cherry | Ed Blackwell
These two releases, both examples of exceptional music-making, represent the second batch of ECM’s new Luminescence vinyl reissue programme, casting...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2023
DJ Khalab: Layers
The Italian DJ and producer Raffaele Costantino - most recognised as DJ Khalab - is a musical and geographical adventurer....
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2023
Alex Hitchcock Quintet: Live At The London And Cambridge Jazz Festivals
Alex Hitchcock | James Copus | Jay Davis | Joe Downard | Will Barry
Saxophonist and composer Alex Hitchcock formed this band for his 2016 postgrad finals at the Royal Academy of Music, and...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2018
Myra Melford's Snowy Egret: The Other Side of Air
Liberty Ellman | Myra Melford | Ron Miles | Stomu Takeishi | Tyshawn Sorey
Forming in 2012, followed by a self-titled debut in 2015, Snowy Egret is accessibly leftfield composer-pianist Myra Melford’s most recent...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019
McCormack Yarde Elysian Quartet: Juntos
Andrew McCormack | Emma Smith | Jason Yarde | Jenny May Logan | Laura Moody | Vincent Sipprell
Andrew McCormack has a double release this summer, his jazz piano trio CD reviewed above and a new Third Stream...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2014
Peter Bernstein: Signs Live!
Brad Mehldau | Christian McBride | Gregory Hutchinson | Peter Bernstein
The guitarist Peter Bernstein jokes in the sleeve notes that the new album Signs Live! was a late album launch...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017
Aaron Goldberg: The Now
Aaron Goldberg | Eric Harland | Kurt Rosenwinkel | Reuben Rogers
This is the fifth CD by the pianist Aaron Goldberg (Joshua Redman, Wynton Marsalis) with the former Charles Lloyd group...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2015
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