Arild Andersen/the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra/Tommy Smith: Celebration
Arild Andersen | Scottish National Jazz Orchestra | Tommy Smith
Bassist Arild Andersen's critically acclaimed trio with Tommy Smith on saxophone has toured extensively and recorded for ECM – Live...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2012
The Power Quintet: High Art
Bill Stewart | Danny Grissett | Jeremy Pelt | Peter Washington | Steve Nelson
If anyone tells you this is just another all-star studio pickup group, just to earn a few dollars playing maybe...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2016
NYSQ: Sleight of Hand
Daiki Yasukagawa | David Berkman | Gene Jackson | Tim Armacost
I've liked everything I've heard from this group before, whether on record as here, or in live performance. Clearly, Armacost...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2017
Omar Sosa: Senses
In his sleeve notes the Cuban-born Barcelona-based pianist describes this new music as a presentation of his roots ‘in unusual,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2014
Alexander Hawkins & Tomeka Reid: Shards And Constellations
Alexander Hawkins | Tomeka Reid
Oxford pianist Hawkins and Chicagoan cellist Reid have had a simpatico musical partnership for many years, sharing stages with the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2020
Dezron Douglas: Atalaya
Dezron Douglas | Emilio Modeste | George Burton | Joe Dyson Jr | Melvis Santa
A protége of Jackie McLean, a DownBeat magazine 2019 Rising Star and a performer with Pharoah Sanders, Ravi Coltrane, Cyrus...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Ellis Marsalis: A New Orleans Christmas Carol
Since much of the USA is in thrall to Christianity, mainly of the lip-service variety, it's perhaps not surprising how...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012
Miguel Zenón/Luis Perdomo: El Arte Del Bolero Vol 2
The Puerto Rican saxophonist Miguel Zenón and Venezuelan pianist Luis Perdomo – a playing partner from student days – made...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2023
Alexis Valet: Following the Sun
Aaron Parks | Alexis Valet | Dayna Stephens | Joe Martin | Kush Abadey
The young Bordeaux-raised vibraphonist Alexis Valet was good enough soon after his student years to recruit European jazz stars like...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2024
Nicolas Masson: Renaissance
Colin Vallon | Lionel Friedli | Nicolas Masson | Patrice Moret
Since the millennium, when he graduated from music school in Geneva and travelled to New York to find Cecil Taylor...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2025
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