Review of Digby Fairweather: Notes From A Jazz Life Volume 3

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

Acrobat

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp: Fruition

Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp: Fruition

Ivo Perelman | Matthew Shipp

ESP Disk

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Troyka: Moxxy

Troyka: Moxxy

Chris Montague | Kit Downes

Edition Records

Rating: ★★★★

Troyka freshened up the whole notion of UK electric jazz with the very promising self-titled debut in 2009. They've gone...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2012

Review of Callum Au and Claire Martin: Songs and Stories

Callum Au and Claire Martin: Songs and Stories

Callum Au | Claire Martin | Mark Nightingale

Stunt Records

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded at London's Stadium and Air Studios last year and released on the Copenhagen-based Stunt Records, composer, arranger and trombonist...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2020

Review of Henry Lowther Band: Child Song

Henry Lowther Band: Child Song

Daryl Runswick | Henry Lowther | Mike McNaught | Mike Travis | Tony Roberts

Esoteric

Rating: ★★★

Trumpeter-composer Henry Lowther is one of Britain’s most respected and well-liked musicians, a distinguished veteran revered for giving an anxious...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: September/2013

Review of Mark Soskin: Hearts And Minds

Mark Soskin: Hearts And Minds

Anthony Pinciotti | Jay Anderson | Mark Soskin

SteepleChase

Rating: ★★★

It's been a couple of decades since Soskin was the long-standing keyboardist for Sonny Rollins but his credits, which extend...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2017

Review of Ivo Perelman with Sirius Quartet: The Passion According to G.H.

Ivo Perelman with Sirius Quartet: The Passion According to G.H.

Fung Chern Hwei | Gregor Huebner | Ivo Perelman | Jeremy Harman | Ron Lawrence

Leo

Rating: ★★★

I'm no great fan of Brazilian saxophonist Ivo Perelman – I often feel he overplays his welcome – but The...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: November/2012

Review of Alexey Kruglov: Identification

Alexey Kruglov: Identification

Alexey Kruglov | Dmitry Denisov | Vladimir Borisov

Leo

Rating: ★★★★

Alexey Kruglov is a multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist with a penchant for drama, who seems able to express himself afresh with each...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: November/2011

Review of Horace Silver: 14 Février 1959

Horace Silver: 14 Février 1959

Blue Mitchell | Gene Taylor | Horace Silver | Junior Cook | Louis Hayes

Frémeaux

Rating: ★★★

Coming hard on the heels of the Zurich studio session shared with Sonny Rollins and reviewed in Jazzwise 210, this...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Review of Pat Metheny Unity Band: Unity Band

Pat Metheny Unity Band: Unity Band

Antonio Sánchez | Ben Williams | Chris Potter | Pat Metheny

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

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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