Review of Lars Danielsson: Signature Editions 3

Lars Danielsson: Signature Editions 3

Bobo Stensen | Bugge Wesseltoft | Carsten Dahl | Copenhagen Concert Orchestra | DR Danish Radio Concert Orchestra | Eivind Aarset | Lars Danielsson | Leszek Mozdzer | Marilyn Mazur | Ulf Wakenius

ACT

Rating: ★★★

Lars Danielsson is an exceptional bass player, even in a part of the world that seems to specialise in exceptional...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2010

Review of Marquis Hill: The Way We Play

Marquis Hill: The Way We Play

Christie Dashiell | Christopher McBride | Harold Green III | Joshua Ramos | Juan Pastor | Justin ‘Justefan’ Thomas | Makay McCraven | Marquis Hill | Meagan McNeal | Vincent Gardiner

Concord Jazz

Rating: ★★★

If you skip the opening voiceover band introductory track, this turns out to be an interesting and pleasurable album featuring...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2016

Review of Simon Moullier: Isla

Simon Moullier: Isla

Alexander Claffy | Jongkuk Kim | Lex Korten | Simon Moullier

Self-release/Bandcamp

Rating: ★★★

Vibraphone-led groups are nowhere near as common as those fronted by piano or saxophone, but US-based French vibraphonist Simon Moullier...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2023

Review of Jon Cleary: GoGo Juice

Jon Cleary: GoGo Juice

Calvin Turner | Danny Sadownick | featuring The Dirty Dozen Horns | Jon Cleary | Nigel Hall | Shane Theriot | Terence Higgins

FHQ

Rating: ★★★

A long time part of Bonnie Raitt's band, and a fine contributor to Rickie Lee Jones’ current and superb album,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2015

Review of Bill Evans/Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: Beauty & The Beast

Bill Evans/Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: Beauty & The Beast

Bill Evans | The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra

Spartacus

Rating: ★★★

Ah, but who is ‘Beauty’, who the ‘Beast’? Originally written for another muscular sax man, Dave Liebman, who first performed...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2017

Review of Jim Blomfield Trio: Wave Forms and Sea Changes

Jim Blomfield Trio: Wave Forms and Sea Changes

Jim Blomfield | Mark Whitlam | Roshan ‘Tosh’ Wijetunge

Pig Records

Rating: ★★★

The pianist Jim Blomfield has been a fixture on the creative music scene in Bristol since 1991, and has also...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013

Review of Duke Ellington: Berlin 1959

Duke Ellington: Berlin 1959

Booty Wood | Britt Woodman | Cat Anderson | Clark Terry | Duke Ellington | Fats Ford | Harry Carney | Jimmy Hamilton | Jimmy Johnson | Jimmy Woode

Storyville

Rating: ★★★

In one sense, this is merely a typical Ellington concert, therefore with some moments of interest and others you’ve heard...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2021

Review of Paul Motian: Tribute

Paul Motian: Tribute

Carlos Ward | Charlie Haden | Paul Metzke | Paul Motian | Sam Brown

ECM

Rating: ★★★

A product of what I think was Manfred Eicher's second trip to New York for the purposes of recording, which...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2019

Review of XPQ – Vasilis Xenopoulos/Nigel Price Quintet: Sidekicks

XPQ – Vasilis Xenopoulos/Nigel Price Quintet: Sidekicks

Dario Di Lecce | Nigel Price | Steve Brown | Vasilis Xenopoulos

Trio

Rating: ★★★★

The co-leaders work well together, their respective styles each the ideal match for the other. Price is a supple player,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2018

Review of Ferit Odman: Dameronia With Strings

Ferit Odman: Dameronia With Strings

Danny Grissett | David O’Rourke | Ferit Odman | Peter Washington | Terell Stafford

Equinox

Rating: ★★★★

Thirty-four-year-old Odman is a new name to me, but this stalwart of the Turkish scene already has two previous CDs...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2016

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