Artemis: Arboresque
Allison Miller | Ingrid Jensen | Nicole Glover | Noriko Ueda | Renee Rosnes
When DownBeat readers voted Artemis ‘Jazz Group of The Year’ twice running (in 2023 and 2024), their enthusiasms probably weren’t...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2025
Ibrahim Maalouf: Diagnostic
This final installment of a trilogy that began with 2003's Diasporas and 2009's Diachronism is an impressive consolidation of both...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2012
Joe Lovano: Trio Tapestry
Carmen Castaldi | Joe Lovano | Marilyn Crispell
If you played this spaciously exploratory album without investigating its origins, you might disrespectfully ponder if Joe Lovano had moved...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2019
Grateful Dead: Cornell 5/8/77
For tape collectors and completists, this here live extravaganza from Barton Hall, Cornell University in Ithica, NY has a hallowed...
Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: July/2017
Matt Carmichael: Marram
Ali Watson | Charlie Stewart | Fergus McCreadie | Matt Carmichael | Tom Potter
There's a cinematic quality about Scottish saxophonist Matt Carmichael's second album that recalls the Celtic jazz film scores of the...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: February/2023
William Parker: Mayan Space Station
Ava Mendoza | Daniel Carter | Gerald Cleaver | Hamid Drake | William Parker
One leader, two trios. It is not, after dozens of recordings over five decades, that bassist William Parker needs to...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2021
Alex Sipiagin: From Reality and Back
Alex Sipiagin | Antonio Sánchez | Dave Holland | Gonzalo Rubalcaba | Seamus Blake
Russian-born New Yorker Sipiagin already has 13 CDs as leader to his credit plus two as co-leader of Opus 5,...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2013
Dayna Stephens: I'll Take My Chances
Becca Stevens | Bill Stewart | Charles Altura | Dayna Stephens | Gerald Clayton | Joe Sanders
Still desperately in need of a kidney transplant, Dayna Stephens is currently the tenor player du jour for Criss Cross....
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2014
Mark Masters Ensemble: Masters & Baron Meet Blanton & Webster
The California-based arranger Masters has addressed Ellingtonia before. Now his expanded Ensemble is tackling the compositions recorded when that marvellous...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2021
Joanna Wallfisch: The Origin of Adjustable Things
Hailing from a family of professional musicians, the young singer songwriter Joanna Wallfisch recently relocated from London to New York...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015
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