Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Joe Hertenstein: Scalene
Most jazz musicians worry about where their next album is coming from, but Ivo Perelman isn’t most jazz musicians and,...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018
Dee Byrne: Outlines
Andrew Lisle | Dee Byrne | Nick Malcolm | Olie Brice | Rebecca Nash | Tom Ward
The title suggests sketchiness but this music is anything but sketchy. Saxophonist Dee Byrne's often intricate compositions and her choice...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: September/2023
Perfect Stranger: Unfinished Business
These days it’s not unusual for bands to keep going for half a century – the Rolling Stones have survived...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: December/2024
The David Rees-Williams Trio: Back from Before
Alexander van Ingen | David Rees-Williams | Neil Francis | Phil Laslett | Stephanie Oade
In relative terms, jazz is the new kid on the block compared to the western tradition of classical music, and...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2010
The Dave Pike Quartet featuring Bill Evans: Pike's Peak
Bill Evans | Dave Pike | Herbie Lewis | Walter Perkins
This was self-taught vibraphonist Dave Pike's second album under his own name. The interest today is that the pianist on...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2021
Drew Gress: The Sky Inside
Craig Taborn | Drew Gress | Ralph Alessi | Tim Berne | Tom Rainey
Drew Gress has been a leading go-to bassist sideman over the past two decades in New York experimental jazz circles,...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013
Dave Brubeck Quartet: The Singles Collection 1956-1962
1956? This compilation of singles released by the Dave Brubeck Quartet actually begins in 1951, with the quartet's second outing...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: November/2020
Debashish Bhattacharya: Hawaii To Calcutta: A Tribute To Tau Moe
Suckers for projects with thematic hooks need look no further than this Bengali slide whiz's Hawaii To Calcutta to get...
Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: March/2017
Sammy Davis Jr: The Singles Collection 1949-62
Carmen McRae | Dean Martin | Frank Sinatra | Gary Crosby | Sammy Davis Jr
Stage and screen actor, author, comedian, dancer and skilled multi-instrumentalist, Sammy Davis Jr. also possessed a remarkable voice, blessed with...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2022
Blicher Hemmer Gadd: It will be alright
Dan Hemmer | Michael Blicher | Steve Gadd
This is the fourth release from a trio formed by chance a decade ago by global-folk-influenced Danish saxophonist Michael Blicher...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2023
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