Ron Carter/Michael and Florian Arbenz: The Alpine Session: Arbenz vs Arbenz Meets Ron Carter
Florian Arbenz | GMichael Arbenz | Ron Carter
Although the Swiss Arbenz twins have toured and recorded with the likes of Greg Osby, Dave Liebman, Marc Johnson, Kirk...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2025
Julian Argüelles: Tonadas
Ivo Neame | James Maddren | Julian Argüelles | Sam Lasserson
Premier UK saxophonist-composer Julian Argüelles has been in inspired form throughout a prolific period of recording this past decade. He...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2018
Selma Savolainen: Horror Vacui
Eero Tikkanen | Max Zenger | Okko Saastamoinen | Selma Savolainen | Tomi Nikku | Toomas Keski-Säntti
The Latin title part-quotes Aristotle’s notion that “nature abhors a vacuum”, a suggestive phrase which helps Finnish singer-composer Selma Savolainen...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2024
Phil Haynes’ 4 Horns & What?: The Complete American Recordings
Not a name that immediately springs to mind when recalling the 1980s-to-early-90s New York Downtown scene, drummer-percussionist-composer Phil Haynes was...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2024
Drew Gress: The Sky Inside
Craig Taborn | Drew Gress | Ralph Alessi | Tim Berne | Tom Rainey
Drew Gress has been a leading go-to bassist sideman over the past two decades in New York experimental jazz circles,...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013
King Crimson: Larks’ Tongues In Aspic 50th Anniversary Edition
Bill Bruford | David Cross | Jamie Muir | John Wetton | Robert Fripp
Their early 1970s recordings never repeated the shock of the new of the Crims’ Court of the… debut, despite Keith...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2024
Charlie Rouse: Yeah!
For all you stargazers and UFO watchers out there scanning the heavens you might be interested to know that, in...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: October/2016
Thelonious Monk: The Centennial Edition: Paris 1954
Gerard Dave Pochonet | Jean-Louis Viale | Jean-Marie Ingrand | Thelonious Monk
We’ve known forever that Monk’s first foreign trip was to the 1954 Paris Jazz Fair, and that his initial unaccompanied...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018
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
Carol Saboya: Belezas: Music of Ivan Lins and Milton Nascimento
Adolfo | Carol Saboya | Dave Liebman | Hendrik Meurkens | Jorge Helder | Rafael Barata | Spiewak
It had to happen eventually that someone would re-harmonise ‘Giant Steps’. The switch here is that, while retaining the melody,...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2013
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