Schlippenbach Trio: Warsaw Concert
Alexander von Schlippenbach | Alexander Von Schlippenbach | Evan Parker | Paul Lovens
One of the great – and most enduring – improv trios on mind-bendingly fine form. Schlippenbach is also known for...
Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: February/2017
Steve Smith, Tony Monaco & Vinny Valentino: Groove: Blue
Steve Smith | Tony Monaco | Vinny Valentino
Smith pitched in a different context to how we usually hear him; not the funky fusioneer, not the big band...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2015
Go: Organic Orchestra & Brooklyn Raga Massive: Ragmala – A Garland Of Ragas
Chicagoan percussionist Adam Rudolph has been a pioneer of ethnomusicological exploration since the 1970s. A former student of, and collaborator...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2019
Sextet of Orchestra USA: Mack The Knife
Mainly this gets its star rating because of Eric Dolphy and Jerome Richardson's dazzling saxophone playing, and this overcomes the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2016
Tete Montoliu: Blues For Myself
Eric Peter | Peer Wyboris | Tete Montoliu
As with the Lucky Thompson set reviewed elsewhere, this trio recording was first issued on the Spanish Ensayo label and...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2016
Tom Harrell: Number Five
Danny Grissett | Jonathan Blake | Tom Harrell | Ugonna Okegwo | Wayne Escoffery
Trumpeter Tom Harrell's long and highly respected career is marked by sound musical craftsmanship often enlivened by lyrical grace, all...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2012
Taylor Ho Bynum 9-tette: The Ambiguity Manifesto
Fiery trumpeter-composer Taylor Ho Bynum's band formed of his contemporaries – Tomas Fujiwara and Mary Halvorson among them – wonderfully...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Till Brönner: The Movie Album
The suave trumpet superstar plays slushy jazz interpretations of cinema classics with guests including Gregory Porter. ‘Cinema Paradiso’ and ‘Forbidden...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2015
Johanna Burnheart: Burnheart
Boz Martin-Jones | David Swan | Joanna Burnheart | Jonny Wickham | Noel Langley
Burnheart is a German classical talent now living in London, whose conversion to jazz was refracted through Berlin techno. As...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2020
Australian Art Orchestra: Closed Beginnings
Erkki Veltheim | Lizzy Welsh | Peter Knight | Reuben Lewis | Tariro Mavondo | Zoë Barry
Australian Art Orchestra has always been a broad church. Founded in 1994 by the visionary composer-pianist Paul Grabowsky, the contemporary...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2021
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