Review of Trygve Seim: Helsinki Songs

Trygve Seim: Helsinki Songs

Kristjan Randalu | Markku Ounaskari | Mats Eilertsen | Trygve Seim

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

As a youngster, Trygve Seim was more interested in football than the saxophone. Then his dad played him a Jan...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2018

Review of Beck Hunters: Has It Been Found?

Beck Hunters: Has It Been Found?

Anton Hunter | Johnny Hunter | Mick Beck

Discus

Rating: ★★★

The list of free-jazz bassoonists is not a very long one. In fact, other than Karen Borca, who played with...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2019

Review of Josh Kyle: Possibilities

Josh Kyle: Possibilities

Geoff Gascoyne | Josh Kyle | Ratyh Sahmins | Tom Cawley

Jazzizit Records

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Stan Getz Quartet & Quintet: The Complete Roost Studio Sessions

Stan Getz Quartet & Quintet: The Complete Roost Studio Sessions

Al Haig | Bill Crow | Bob Carter | Don Lamond | Duke Jordan | Eddie Safranski | Frank Isola | Horace Silver | Jimmy Raney | Joe Gallaway

Editor's Choice

American Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Bobby Previte: Mass

Bobby Previte: Mass

Bobby Previte | Don McGreevy | Jamie Saft | Marco Benevento | Mike Gamble | Reed Mathis | Stephen O'Malley | The Rose ensemble

RareNoiseRecords

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Bill Evans: Behind The Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings

Bill Evans: Behind The Dikes: The 1969 Netherlands Recordings

Bill Evans | Claus Ogerman | Eddie Gomez | Marty Morell | Metropole Orkest

Editor's Choice

Elemental

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Brian Charette: Backup

Brian Charette: Backup

Brian Charette | Henry Hey | Jochen Rueckert

SteepleChase

Rating: ★★★

“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

Review of The Gascoyne/O'Higgins Quartet: Got The Real Note

The Gascoyne/O'Higgins Quartet: Got The Real Note

Dave O'Higgins | Geoff Gascoyne | Graham Harvey | Sebastiaan de Krom | Sebastiaan De Krom

Jazzizit

Rating: ★★★★

Of course you’ve got to check out the bright young things, but if ever there was a band to default...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2013

Review of David Liebman/Tatsuya Nakatani/Adam Rudolph: The Unknowable

David Liebman/Tatsuya Nakatani/Adam Rudolph: The Unknowable

Adam Rudolph | David Liebman | Tatsuya Nakatani

RareNoiseRecords

Rating: ★★★★

Dave Liebman has never stopped growing as an artist, harshly self-critical, he is a player constantly seeking to improve, an...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2018

Review of John Surman: Words Unspoken

John Surman: Words Unspoken

John Surman | Rob Luft | Rob Waring | Thomas Strønen

ECM

Rating: ★★★

Words Unspoken is a natural heir to Surman’s Invisible Threads. As the titles suggest, this is music about the spaces...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2024

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