Punkt.Vrt.Plastik: Zurich Concert
Christian Lillinger | Kaja Draksler | Petter Eldh
You’ll find most piano-bass-drums instrumental line-ups filed under ‘piano trio jazz’ but there’s a collective ethos at work in the...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2022
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: Peter and the Wolf
Makoto Ozone | Tam Dean Burn | The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra | Tommy Smith
Aesthetically and artistically, a jazz version of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf is a risky venture. But hats-off to Tommy...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2019
Mark Dresser Seven: Ain't Nothing But A Cybercoup And You
Double-bassist Dresser's small group work in the past decade has been outstanding, and he continues his rich vein of form...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2019
Sam Crowe Group: Synaesthesia
Adam Waldmann | Dave Smith | Jasper Høiby | Sam Crowe | Will Davies
Here's proof that the newest wave of UK jazz musicians don't need to play music that kicks arse in order...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2010
Blue Notes: Legacy: Live in South Africa 1964
Chris McGregor | Dudu Pukwana | Johnny Dyani | Louis Moholo-Moholo | Mongezi Feza | Nick Moyake
One year before Live in South Africa 1964, Chris McGregor recorded Jazz: The African Sound as Chris McGregor and the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2022
Rob Barron: What's In Store…
Colin Oxley | Jeremy Brown | Joshua Morrison | Rob Barron
Barron, a busy presence on the local scene, has chosen well for both the pieces to play and the musicians...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
Antonio Sánchez: New Life
Alex Munk | Conor Chaplin | Dave Hamblett | Matt Robinson
New Life is a giant step forward in the career of the brilliant drummer, whose work on so many Pat...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2018
Marius Neset: Birds
The 27-year-old Copenhagen-based Norwegian saxophonist-composer made a huge splash with his Edition debut Golden Xplosion in 2011 and has been...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013
EST Symphony
It would have been Esbjörn Svensson's next project.Classically trained at Stockholm's Royal College of Music, the work of Bach, Mozart,...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2016
Emilio Solla y La Inestable de Brooklyn: Second Half
Solla is Argentinian-born but based in New York and has led his nine-piece orchestra there with these first-call players since...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2015
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