Lucia Cadotsch: AKI

James Maddren | Kit Downes | Kurt Rosenwinkel | Lucia Cadotsch | Phil Donkin

Released on Kurt Rosenwinkel's independent label Heartcore Records, this latest album from Swiss-born, Berlin-based vocalist, bandleader and songwriter Lucia Cadotsch...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2023

Harry South: The Songbook

Alan Branscombe | Alan Skidmore | Bill Eyden | Dick Morrissey | Hank Shaw | Harold Fisher | Harry Klein | Harry South | Humphrey Lyttelton | Jimmy Deuchar

For this writer, pianist Harry South was always the quiet one with the moustache and goatee beard. Coming onto the...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2017

Drifter: Flow

This is a very together CD. There is an ease and confidence of conception, which lifts this album out of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2017

Usonic Diversion: Groove

Their previous album struck a chord with MOBO judges winning a 2011 nomination, and UK's Usonic (Nigel Hitchcock and Robert...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014

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

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

Arild Andersen | Barre Phillips | Bjornar Andresen | Bobo Stenson | Eckehard Fintl | Eric Niord Larsen | Inger Lise Rypdal | Jan Garbarek | Jon Christensen | Odd Ulleberg

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

Loz Speyer's Inner Space: Life on the Edge

Chris Biscoe | Gary Willcox | Loz Speyer | Olie Brice | Rachel Musson

The sleeve notes reference Ornette – with Dewey Redman and the Art Ensemble of Chicago thrown in for good measure...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: May/2017