Album Interview: Geri Allen: Grand River Crossings
David McMurray | Geri Allen | Marcus Belgrave
If Flying Toward The Sound (2010) paid homage to Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock, and A Child Is...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2013
National Youth Jazz Orchestra: NYJO FIFTY
This well-wrought double CD – the first NYJO release on Whirlwind – marks a milestone. It's 50 years since visionary...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016
Ahmad Jamal: Complete Live At The Spotlite Club
Ahmad Jamal | Israel Crosby | Vernell Fournier
These 27 club tracks – and the three studio singles that preceded them – were the Argo label’s immediate response...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Feb/2019
Various Artists: The Leopard Lounge Original Album Series
Shake, stir or pour a long one and settle back on that leopard skin chaise longue: chilled? Then we shall...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2012
Nailah Porter: ConJazzNess
A former attorney and lobbyist on Capitol Hill, Nailah Porter has chosen to leave the corridors of power behind to...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2011
Fire!: The Hands
Andreas Werliin | Johan Berthling | Mats Gustafsson
Perhaps as a reaction to the bloated excess of Fire! Orchestra, this sixth album from the core trio of Gustafsson,...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2018
Bill Thompson: Mouthful Of Silence
Spread across two discs, these studio interpretations of a live performance from 2017 deftly distil Bill Thompson's artful approach to...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: November/2018
Quinsin Nachoff/Mark Helias/Dan Weiss: Ethereal Trio
Dan Weiss | Mark Helias | Quinsin Nachoff
This is a quintessential modern saxophone trio album. The instrumental mastery of all three players is beyond doubt and they...
Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: July/2017
Tom Harrell: Trip
This album, in tandem with a live concert recently witnessed, suggest that while Harrell's creative spirit remains undiminished, his allegiance...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2017
Louis Sclavis Trio: Sources
Benjamin Moussay | Gilles Coronado | Louis Sclavis
This is Sclavis' ninth album for ECM and quite unlike any previous recordings. In an interview with France's Jazz Magazine...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2012
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