Joy Ellis: Dwell

This singer-songwriter shows her quality with lyrics and jazz-piano arrangements that unobtrusively echo Joni Mitchell and early Christine Tobin through...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2020

Bagman: Bagman Live at Cafe OTO

Pat Thomas | Raymond Strid | Sture Ericson

Pat Thomas needs little introduction these days as one of the most fiercely inventive and consistently challenging pianists in European...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2022

Shorty Rogers and His Giants: Jazz Waltz

The 1963 edition of the Rogers' big band and smaller Giants was as outstanding as ever, and this set catches...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2014

Lee Konitz: Stereokonitz

Enrico Rava | Franco D’Andrea | Gegè Munari | Giovanni Tommaso | Lee Konitz

Originally a vinyl release on Italian RCA, this reissue teams the peripatetic Konitz with an all-Italian line-up on an eight-track...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2016

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra: Live in Cuba

Ali Jackson | Bobby Carcasses | Carlos Henriquez | Chris Crenshaw | Dan Nimmer | Dreiser Durruthy Bambolé | Elliot Mason | Joe Temperley | Kenny Rampton | Marcus Printup

The stated mission of the J@LCO is “to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2016

Jonathan Finlayson and Sicilian Defense: Moment & The Message

Damion Reid | David Virelles | Jonathan Finlayson | Keith Witty | Miles Okazaki

Trumpeter Finlayson has been mostly identified with the bands of Steves Coleman and Lehman, both of them labelmates on Pi....

Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: August/2013

Miles Davis: Live in Poland 1983

Al Foster | Bill Evans | Darryl Jones | John Scofield | Miles Davis | Mino Cinelu | Robert Irving III

Of all the ensembles that Davis led following his comeback in 1981, his band with John Scofield is usually recognised...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2015

Bill Evans: Inner Spirit

Bill Evans | Joe LaBarbera | Marc Johnson

These latest additions to Resonance’s live albums of Bill Evans are issued separately but simultaneously, no doubt because they commemorate...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2022

Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra: Effervescence

Adam Jackson | Cameron T Duncan | Christos Stylianides | David Bowden | Fergus McCreadie | Heather Macintosh | Helena Kay | Joe Williamson | Joshua Elcock | Kevin Garrity

Smith's heroics with the TSYJO or the SNJO hardly need further lauding in this modest corner of Jazzwise, but Effervescence...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2017

Spindle Ensemble: Bea

Part of the Bristol collective Bloom, the pianist Daniel Inzani’s quartet welds African grooves to post-impressionistic chamber music and the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018