Ben Bastin Trio: The Missing Piece
Amelia Tucker | Ben Bastin | Danny Keane | John Turville | Joshua Blackmore | Raven Bush
Young bassist Ben Bastin was a member of the Bedfordshire Youth Jazz Orchestra before arriving in London in 2004 and...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2011
James Brandon Lewis & Chad Taylor: Live in Willisau
Chad Taylor | James Brandon Lewis
Saxophonist James Brandon Lewis is steeped in gospel, schooled in jazz and released his debut album with Gerald Cleaver and...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2020
John Christensen: Soft Rock
John Christensen | Joshua Catania | Matt Gould | Neil Hemphill | Tony Barba
Shifting Paradigm Records is an enterprising Minneapolis-based label which seems to have made a speciality of releasing surprisingly good albums...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2024
Sons of Kemet: Black to the Future
The fourth LP by the Shabaka Hutchings-led ‘super-quartet’ Sons of Kemet comes with a mission statement reinforcing the politics at...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2021
Andrew McCormack: Graviton: The Calling
Andrew McCormack | Josh Arcoleo | Joshua Blackmore | Noemi Nuti | Robin Mullarkey | Tom Herbert
Andrew McCormack's early-2000s introduction to the UK jazz scene came via Gary Crosby's and Janine Irons' game-changing Tomorrow's Warriors –...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2019
Album Interview: Marius Neset & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra: Lion
The 29-year-old Norwegian saxophonist/composer Marius Neset has been heralded as a new breed of big tenor players in a lineage...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2014
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: Where Rivers Meet
Konrad Wiszniewski | Martin Kershaw | Paul Towndrow | Tommy Smith
This impressive concert was streamed in May 2021 as it happened, and was reviewed in the Jazzwise live section in...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2022
Strobes: Brokespeak
Dan Nichols | Joshua Blackmore | Matt Calvert
It should come as no surprise that two of this gnarly electro-rock trio – keys man Nichols and drummer Blackmore...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: March/2017
Charlie Gabriel: Eighty-Nine
Ben Jaffe | Charlie Gabriel | Joshua Starkman
The surname Gabriel has plenty of resonance among those who are familiar with New Orleans jazz and its family dynasties....
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2022
Pat Metheny Unity Band: Unity Band
Antonio Sánchez | Ben Williams | Chris Potter | Pat Metheny
No-one noodles his way up his own archtop quite so self-delightingly as Metheny. So hurrah for him for re-energising himself...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2012
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