Review of Neil Cowley Trio: Touch and Flee

Neil Cowley Trio: Touch and Flee

Evan Jenkins | Neil Cowley | Rex Horan

Naim

Rating: ★★★★

As with another widely admired piano trio, The Necks, Neil Cowley Trio tends to get coverage in the jazz media...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014

Review of John Scofield: Swallow Tales

John Scofield: Swallow Tales

Bill Stewart | John Scofield | Steve Swallow

Editor's Choice

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

John Scofield met Steve Swallow at Berklee half a century ago, in a student-teacher connection that became a playing partnership...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2020

Review of Werner/Loueke/Zenón/Koppel/Nemeth: Coalition

Werner/Loueke/Zenón/Koppel/Nemeth: Coalition

Benjamin Koppel | Ferenc Nemeth | Kenny Werner | Lionel Loueke | Miguel Zenón

Half Note records

Rating: ★★★★

This is an interesting record. But then Kenny Werner always makes interesting records. This is his eighth for the Half...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2015

Review of Pau Brasil & Ensemble SP & Renato Braz: Villa-Lobos Superstar

Pau Brasil & Ensemble SP & Renato Braz: Villa-Lobos Superstar

Betina Stegman | Marcelo Jaffé | Nelson Ayres | Nelson Rios | Paulo Bellinati | Renato Braz | Ricardo Mosca | Robert Suetholz | Rodolfo Stroeter | Teco Cardoso

Stunt

Rating: ★★★★

Everyone in Brazil loves Heitor Villa-Lobos, that 20th century composer who once said that his first harmony teacher was a...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2017

Review of Andrew Cyrille: Lebroba

Andrew Cyrille: Lebroba

Andrew Cyrille | Bill Frisell | Wadada Leo Smith

Rating: ★★★★

Cyrille is one of the key figures in the history of the drums in improvised music insofar as he has...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2019

Review of Christian Muthspiel & Steve Swallow: Simple Songs

Christian Muthspiel & Steve Swallow: Simple Songs

Christian Muthspiel | Steve Swallow

In & Out

Rating: ★★★

This disc from Austrian trombonist Christian Muthspiel and US bassist Steve Swallow would have fitted in seamlessly with ACT's current...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2014

Review of Aki Takase & David Murray: Cherry Sakura

Aki Takase & David Murray: Cherry Sakura

Aki Takase | David Murray

Intakt

Rating: ★★★★

The vast experience that Takase and Murray have as duet players is heard from the opening bars of the lengthy...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2017

Review of Tom Remon and Jim Mullen: Duality

Tom Remon and Jim Mullen: Duality

Tom Remon

Lunaria Records

Rating: ★★★

Young warrior, old lion: it's the marketing manager's dream, And the music ain't bad either, What a pleasure to see...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2021

Review of Ornette Coleman: The Road To Free Jazz: The Early Years 1958-61

Ornette Coleman: The Road To Free Jazz: The Early Years 1958-61

Billy Higgins | Charlie Haden | Don Cherry | Ed Blackwell | Ornette Coleman | Percy Heath | Red Mitchell | Shelley Manne

Acrobat

Rating: ★★★

Given the gargantuan amount of Ornette reissues on the market it might be hard, at first sight, to argue the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2018

Review of Nils Økland Band: Lysning

Nils Økland Band: Lysning

Håkon Mørch Stene | Mats Eilertsen | Nils Økland | Rolf-Erik Nystrøm | Sigbjørn Apeland

Hubro

Rating: ★★★

In Norwegian folktales the Hardanger fiddle is the devil’s instrument. Its full-bodied sound, bulked out by the drone of four...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: February/2018

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