Mark Edwards: In Deep
Fans of Liane Carroll's superb Ballads album will recall that pianist Mark Edwards was a key presence. Liane returns the...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2014
Dave Douglas: The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note
Alan Silva | Andrew Hill | Ben Riley | Clifford Jordan | Freddie Waits | Rufus Reid
A wiser man than I on the Jazzwise crew has already named this as one of his top archive releases...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2016
Charles Lloyd: 8: Kindred Spirits Live from the Lobero
Charles Lloyd has been an unacknowledged genius working in plain sight for far too long. Ever since his remarkable series...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2020
Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet: The Complete Studio Recordings
Bill Crow | Bob Brookmeyer | Bob Cranshaw | Clark Terry | Dave Bailey | Hank Jones | Roger Kellaway
When in 1954, Clifford Brown moved from Blue Note to Mercury his new label realised that they had acquired a...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2015
Art Blakey: Blues March
This appears to have been compiled by a blindfolded man with a large hatpin. Is it supposed to be an...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: September/2015
Katriona Taylor: Blind Passion
There's a long tradition of blind and visually-impaired jazz musicians, from Art Tatum, Lennie Tristano and George Shearing through to...
Reviewed by Jon Clay in issue: May/2021
Tia Fuller: Diamond Cut
The inclusion of giants among men in the personnel for this fourth album by alto-saxophonist Fuller is newsworthy. But the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2018
Bill Evans: Empathy + Pike's Peak
This is relatively minor Evans, but interesting nevertheless. Dating from the year following Scott LaFaro's death, it avoids his new...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2013
Christine Tobin: Pelt
Referencing blues, folk, jazz and Americana, singer, songwriter and composer Christine Tobin's Pelt completes a dazzling quadriptych of songbook albums...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
Christian McBride: Conversations With Christian McBride
There's not the epic scope of his big band or the knotty intimacy of Inside Straight, but I reckon McBride...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2012
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