The Bad Plus: Activate Infinity
Dave King | Orrin Evans | Reid Anderson
Few jazz ensembles can be identified as instantaneously as The Bad Plus. There are even fewer that can replace a...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double: March
Brandon Seabrook | Gerald Cleaver | Mary Halvorson | Ralph Alessi | Taylor Ho Bynum | Tomas Fujiwara
When drummer, composer and bandleader Tomas Fujiwara issued the first Triple Double recording in 2017, the ensemble configuration elicited as...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: May/2022
Don Weller’s Major Surgery: Major Surgery: Rare Live Performances 1978
Don Weller, the titanic Sonny Rollins and Coltrane-inspired tenor saxophonist whose guest appearances with Gil Evans' UK touring groups have...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2020
Terje Rypdal
Four re-issues that complement Rypdal's most recent release, Conspiracy (see Jazzwise 257). They comprise the first three recordings made for...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: December/2020
Tigran Hamasyan: The Bird of a Thousand Voices
Areni Agbabian | Marc Karapetian | Nate Wood | Tigran Hamasyan
One of the few authentically original 21st century jazz phenomena, the award-winning Armenian-born pianist-composer known simply as Tigran has, over...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2024
Josh Kyle: Possibilities
Geoff Gascoyne | Josh Kyle | Ratyh Sahmins | Tom Cawley
From the very opening bars of Hoagy Carmichael's ‘Stardust’ – not, by any means, an easy song to nail –...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012
Stan Getz Quartet & Quintet: The Complete Roost Studio Sessions
Stanley The Steamer has been gone close on quarter-of-a century, so late-comers can be excused for assuming that Stan Getz's...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2014
Bobby Previte: Mass
As a daring musical iconoclast, the drummer Bobby Previte could probably give John Zorn a run for his money. An...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017
Bill Evans: Behind The Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings
Bill Evans | Claus Ogerman | Eddie Gomez | Marty Morell | Metropole Orkest
This, the latest release in a seemingly unstoppable stream of unreleased Evans recordings stems from two European tours, falling chronologically...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2021
Brian Charette: Backup
Brian Charette | Henry Hey | Jochen Rueckert
“Gone are the days when an artist says, ‘This is the only thing I do’. I believe you should do...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2018
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