Hiromi: Silver Lining Suite
Hiromi Urehara | Meguna Naka | Sohei Birmann | Tatsuo Nishie | Wataru Mukai
If anyone was going to come out fighting against the pandemic it was bound to be Hiromi Urehara. With the...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2021
Album Interview: Zhenya Strigalev: Blues for Maggie
Eric Harland | Federico Dannemann | Linley Marthe | Zhenya Strigalev
If you're looking to the current London jazz scene for the type of quirkily colourful characters that graced yesteryear, you...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018
Laura Jurd's Dinosaur: To The Earth
Conor Chaplin | Corrie Dick | Elliot Galvin | Laura Jurd
Though Laura Jurd has kept on raising the high bar she set all the way back on her Landing Ground...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2020
Tim Berne/Gregg Belisle-Chi: Mars
Five years back, the circuitous melodic journeys and rhythmic contrariness of Tim Berne's music spawned a brilliant devotee in pianist...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2022
Amir Elsaffar Rivers Of Sound: Not Two
Iraqi-American multi-instrumentalist Elsaffar expands his renowned sextet Two Rivers into a 17-piece orchestra, Rivers Of Sound, and the result is...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2017
Sebastian Noelle: System One
Chris Tordini | Dan Weiss | Matt Mitchell | Sebastian Noelle
Sages of various persuasions have probably been giving their pet names to the dialectics of intuition and rationality from the...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2022
Tommaso Starace Harmony Less Quartet: Narrow Escape
Dave O'Higgins | Davide Liberti | Ruben Bellavia | Tommaso Starace
Milan-born and UK-educated saxophonist Tommaso Starace makes his devotion to hard bop pretty clear on Narrow Escape, but it's no...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2019
Ivo Neame: Moksha
George Crowley | Ivo Neame | James Maddren | Tom Farmer
Known on the international circuit for being one third of Jasper Høiby's Phronesis, the pianist Ivo Neame has also shown...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2018
Miroslav Vitous: Music of Weather Report
Aydin Esen | Gary Campbell | Gerald Cleaver | Miroslav Vitous | Nasheet Waits | Roberto Bonisolo
Unlike Universal Syncopations II where there was pre-production work and dropping in of solos and parts, Music of Weather Report...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2016
Kenny Wheeler/John Dankworth Orchestra: Windmill Tilter (The Story Of Don Quixote)
Kenny Wheeler, the inimitable Canadian trumpet maestro and quiet legend of post-1960s jazz composition, had been playing all kinds of...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2021
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