Christian Wallumrød Ensemble: Outstairs

Christian Wallumrød | Eivind Lønning | Espen Reinertsen | Gjermund Larsen | Oddvar Johansen | Tove Törngren

Chritian Wallumrød’s progress on ECM since his debut in 1996 with No Birch has been one of gradual, sometimes imperceptible...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2013

Christian Wallumrød Ensemble: Many

Christian Wallumrød | Eivind Lenning | Espen Reinertsen | Per Oddvar Johansen | Tove Törngren Brun

After five albums on the Munich-based ECM label, Wallumrød turned to Norway’s leading independent label Hubro in 2016 with Kurzsam...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2020

Christian Muthspiel’s Yodel Group: Huljo

Bobby Previte | Christian Muthspiel | Franck Tortiller | Gerald Preinfalk | Jerome Harris | Matthieu Michel

Get that image of a traditional lederhosen-clad Alpine country dweller with a mountain scene stretched out behind him out of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Christian Wallumrød Ensemble: Kurzsam and Fulger

Christian Wallumrød | Eivind Lenning | Espen Reinertsen | Per Oddvar Johansen | Tove Törngren

Christian Wallumrød is a real talent on the Norwegian jazz scene, as nine albums on the ECM label attest. Indeed,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2017

Gil Scott-Heron: Small Talk At 125th And Lenox

Charlie Saunders | David Barnes | Eddie Knowles | Gil Scott-Heron

Amid Charles Stewart's lengthy sleeve notes it is easy to miss this declaration by the artist himself: “I am a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2015

Harry Allen and Scott Hamilton: 'Round Midnight

Chuck Riggs | Harry Allen | Joel Forbes | Rossano Sportiello | Scott Hamilton

Hearing these two together, like master and pupil, at Norwich recently was a joy. And so it is here. Neither...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2012

Scott Tixier: Cosmic Adventure

It's become unusual to hear improvising jazz fiddle, so bravo to Scott Tixier who's from the Jean Luc Ponty school...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2016

Ronnie Scott Quartet: BBC Jazz Club 1964-1966

Bill Eyden | Freddy Logan | Jackie Dougan | Malcolm Cecil | Mark Murphy | Rick Laird | Ronnie Scott | Ronnie Stephenson | Stan Tracey

I'm glad I got to know Scott's music during his Tracey period, having heard the earliest edition here both in...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2021

Dave Scott: Brooklyn Aura

The leftfield bassist John Hebert's throbbing lines are at the core of trumpeter-composer Dave Scott's enthralling quintet that also includes...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2016

Jimmy Scott/Oscar Brown Jr: Five Classic Albums

Charles Mingus | Dave Bailey | Howard Biggs | Jimmy Scott | Mundell Lowe | Oscar Brown Jr

This latest release in Avid Jazz’s Five Classic Albums series is a superb 2-CD set featuring three albums by vocalist...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2022