Théo Girard Trio: 30YearsFrom
Antoine Berjeaut | Seb Rochford | Théo Girard
French bassist Girard turns 40 this year, and his belated solo debut imagines its tracks as staging posts on an...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2018
Joachim Kühn and the hr-Bigband: Out of the Desert Live at JazzFest Berlin
Joachim Kühn | Majid Bekkas | Ramon Lopez
In 2007 Kühn's collaboration with Moroccan oud player Majid Bekkas and the Spanish percussionist Ramon Lopez produced the critically acclaimed...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2012
Stan Getz: West Coast Jazz
Conte Candoli | Leroy Vinnegar | Lou Levy | Shelly Manne | Stan Getz | Stan Levey
Stan Getz, along with Ella, Sinatra and Tony Bennett, was one of the 20th century's most unique interpreters of what...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: June/2017
José James: While You Were Sleeping
Becca Stevens | José James | Takuya Kuroda
Over five impressive solo releases, including a fine duet with pianist Jef Neve, James has given lie to the notion...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2014
Rantala/Danielsson/Erskine: How Long Is Now?
Iiro Rantala | Lars Danielsson | Peter Erskine
Iiro Rantala is a piano virtuoso whose prowess at the keyboard can overwhelm audiences with joyful excess – as he...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2016
Jim Beard: Show Of Hands
Beard is rightly feted as one of fusion's more intelligent keyboard sidemen, but that still won't prepare you for the...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2014
Tom Harrell: Moving Picture
Adam Crus | Dany Grissett | Tom Harrell | Ugonna Okegwo
Tom Harrell has long sustained an impeccable record as one of the most thoughtful and articulate trumpet players on the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018
Abdullah Ibrahim: Solotude: My Journey My Vision
Every solo concert by Abdullah Ibrahim is a journey, a pianistic monologue that tells stories from past and present and...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Various Artists: Duo Art – Creating Magic
There are some memorable moments on this double CD anthology of duo collaborations past and present from the ACT label....
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2014
Jacques Schwartz-Bart: Soné La-Ka 2 (Odyssey)
The French-Jewish-Guadeloupian son of two award-winning author/academic parents, Schwartz-Bart was raised in Guadeloupe, Senegal and Switzerland and encouraged to be...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2021
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