The Esmond Selwyn Hammond Organ Trio: The Middle Half
Esmond Selwyn | John-Paul Gard | Robin Jones
This is a charming album from one of the UK's leading guitar players and instructors. Esmond Selwyn trained with Chuck...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2012
Javon Jackson: For You
David Williams | Javon Jackson | Jeremy Manasia | McClenty Hunter
The tenor saxophonist matured during the 1980s renaissance in acoustic modern jazz, but cut his teeth with masters from an...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019
Kandace Springs: The Women Who Raised Me
Clarence Penn | Kandace Springs | Scott Colley | Steve Cardenas
Following her critically acclaimed 2016 debut, Soul Eyes, and 2018’s Karriem Riggins-produced Indigo, the singer that Prince said possesses ‘a...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2020
Benny Goodman: The Sound Of Music
Dave Green | Henry Lowther | Jim Mullen | Stu Butterfield
Goodman plays songs from the movie with mixed results, but at their best, Fred Karlin's arrangements provide sound jazz fodder...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2010
John Turville: Head First
Dave Whitford | James Maddren | John Turville | Julian Argüelles | Robbie Robson
Though John Turville is one of the UK jazz scene's most perceptive heirs to the piano legacy of his former...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2019
The Bad Plus: the bad plus
Ben Monder | Chris Speed | Dave King | Reid Anderson
There is a sense of abandon and creative exuberance on this album, essentially the re-birth of The Bad Plus, in...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2022
Tom Barford: Bloomer
Billy Marrows | Dave Storey | Flo Moore | Rupert Cox | Tom Barford
Talk about fast-tracking; only last year the NYJO saxophonist Tom Barford was collecting his first-class honours as a Royal Academy...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2018
Rendell/Carr Quintet: BBC Jazz Club April 1965
Dave Green | Don Rendell | Ian Carr | Michael Garrick | Trevor Tomkins
The Rendell/Carr Quintet had already recorded Shades of Blue in October 1964, the band’s then pianist, Colin Purbrook, who would...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2024
Miles Davis Quintet with John Coltrane: Live In Zurich
Aruan Ortiz | Brad Jones | Chad Taylor
The 59-minute Zurich concert last appeared on both Storyville and TCB (see Jazzwise 168), while the 19-minute bonus broadcast...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2018
Aarhus Jazz Orchestra: Lars MØteller’s Rewrite of Spring
Dave Liebman | Lars Møller | Marilyn Mazur
Big bands are very much a part of the European jazz scene in a way that they are not in...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2016
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