Krystle Warren & the Faculty: Love Songs: A Time You May Embrace

Ben Cassorla | Krystle Warren | Michael Riddleberger | Solomon Dorsey

Following an intensely creative 13-day recording session in February 2011 that yielded a whopping 25 songs – all live, no...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2012

Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition: Album Album

David Murray | Howard Johnson | Jack DeJohnette | John Purcell | Rufus Reid

When Jack DeJohnette produced and recorded Album Album at New York's Power Station in June 1984, he created a classic....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2020

Solveig Slettahjell & Knut Reiersrud with In the Country: Trail Of Souls

Knut Reiersrud | Morten Qvenild | Pål Hausken | Roger Arntzen | Solveig Slettahjell

This album is a spin-off from the highly successful concert promoted by ACT's Siggi Loch in 2014 at the Berlin...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2015

Coleman Hawkins: Today And Now/Desafinado

Barry Galbraith | Coleman Hawkins | Eddie Locke | Howard Collins | Major Holley | Tommy Flanagan | Willie Rodriguez

Though from the start, they had John Coltrane on the books for the final six years of his short life,...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2012

Anat Cohen: Quartetinho

Anat Cohen | James Shipp | Tal Mashiach | Vitor Gonçalves

With a shared love of the Brazilian songbook serving as its aesthetic lodestar, this hugely enjoyable album from Anat Cohen's...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2023

Paolo Fresu: Vinodentro

Italian trumpeter, flugelhornist and much more besides Paolo Fresu isn't as well known in the English-speaking lands as he ought...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2014

Quercus

Huw Warren | Iain Ballamy | June Tabor

Often admired outside the world of folk music for her darkly penetrating, hypnotic vocal, June Tabor is also a gripping...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2013

Duane Tatro: Jazz For Moderns

Bill Homan | Bob Envoldsen | Bob Gordon | Duane Tatro | Jimmy Giuffre | Joe Eger | Joe Maini | Lennie Niehaus | Ralph Pena | Shelly Manne

Searching for Tatro's name among the standard jazz reference books produces slim reward; his name is only mentioned once, in...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2019

Digby Fairweather: Notes From A Jazz Life Volume 3

Dave Shepherd's Dixielanders | Denny Wright | Digby Fairweather | Digby Fairweather-Danny Moss Quintet | Keith Ingham | Lennie Hastings | Lennie Hastings Quartet | M&B Jam Session | Stan Barker | Susannah McCorkle

Volumes One and Two were reviewed in Jazzwise 251 and 269. Rather than re-visit those texts, let's look again at...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2023

Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp: Fruition

Ivo Perelman | Matthew Shipp

The 26-year association of Brazilian tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman and American pianist Matthew Shipp has led to the kind of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2023