October 2007 CD Reviews - Jazz And Beyond
Friday, October 5, 2007
The UK's most definitive review section of jazz and beyond - below is a complete list of all the albums reviewed in the October 2007 Jazzwise Magazine (Issue No. 113) - to read them all subscribe here and receive a free CD. New ReleasesRashied Ali Quintet - Judgment Day Vol. 2 (Survival SR. 122), The Baddest Blues Band (Ever!) - Breakout, Paul Booth - No Looking Back (Basho SRCD20-2), Claudia Quintet -For - Cuneiform (Rune 247 ), Jimmy Cobb Quartet - Cobb’s Corner (Chesky SACD 327), Roberto Gatto – Traps (CamJazz CAMJ7798-2), CéU – CéU (What Music. WMCD0095), Victor Goines - Love Dance (Criss Cross Jazz 1291 CD), Todd Gordon - Ballads from the Midnight Hotel, Peter Grant – Traditional (Universal), Carol Grimes and Giles Perring - Something Secret (Triumphant Sound TS004X), Gilad Atzmon - Refuge (Enja TIP-888 8492), Curious Paradise - Now! (33 Records 33JAZZ164), Rigmor Gustafsson - Alone With You (ACT 9717-2), Dylan Howe Quintet - Translation Vol. 2 – Standards & Previews (Motorik MR 1002), Charlie Hunter – Mistico (Fantasy | HHH), Vijay Iyer/Rudresh Mahanthappa - Raw Materials (Pi 903), Billy Jenkins - Songs Of Praise – Live! (Babel Records), Konono No.1 - Live At Couleur Café (Crammed Craw 45 CD)
Brad Leali Jazz Orchestra - Maria Juanez (TCB 26902), Donny McCaslin - In Pursuit (Sunnyside), Herbie Hancock - The Joni Letters (Verve ), The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra - First Flight (Summit DCD 481), Jean-Marie Machado - Souers de Sang (Adamai CDM105), Marcus Miller - Free (Dreyfus Jazz), Orla Murphy - Wishful Thinking (www.orlamurphy.com), Oregon - 1000 Kilometers (Camjazz CamJ 7803-2), Leslie Pintchik – Quartets (Ambient Records CD 006), Susheela Raman - 33 1/3 (Saraswati Music), Rufus Reid Quintet - Live at the Kennedy Center (Motema Records MTS00009), Jack Reilly Trio - Innocence: Green Spring Suite (Unichrom -2 CDs), Wallace Roney - Jazz (HighNote HCD 7174 ), Adonis Rose - On the Verge (Criss Cross Jazz 1294 CD), John Scofield - This Meets That (EmArcy/Verve 173 4085), Alex Sipiagin – Prints (Criss Cross Jazz 1292 CD), Tony Smith - The Window (www.tonysmithguitar.com), Dan Stern – Traces (Kvetch KVRJ 0001), Louis Stewart & The Frank Harrison Trio - You’ve Changed (Desert Island Jazz Productions DIJP0001), Orchestra Baobab - Made in Dakar (World Circuit WLWCD078), Andy Summers /Ben Verdery - First You Build A Cloud… (Repertoire Records), Susanna - Sonata Mix
Dwarf Cosmos (Rune Grammofon RCD 2066) , James Taylor Quartet - Don’t Mess With Mr T: James Taylor Quartet Play Motown (Dome CD86), Paul Towndrow - Six By Six
(Keywork KWRCD008), Ken Vandermark / Pandelis Karayorgis - Foreground Music
(Okkadisc OD 1265), Christophe Wallemme – Namaste (Bee Jazz BEE 016), Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino WIGCD202P).
Reissues
Count Basie Orchestra - Dance Sessions: Complete 1952–1954 (Jazz Connections 1005), Count Basie - Small Group Studio Recordings: Master Takes: Complete 1952–1956 (Jazz Connections 1007), Art Blakey - Paris Jam Session (Jazz In Paris/EmArcy 0602498422496), Ruby Braff - Hi-Fi Salute To Bunny (Mosaic MCD-1016), James Brown – Jazz (Verve 0602517346871), Donald Byrd - Byrd In Paris (Jazz In Paris/EmArcy 0602498421383), Don Cherry - Live At Café Montmartre 1966 (ESP-Disk ESP-4032), John Coltrane - At Newport (Impulse! 0602517350540), The 1961 Helsinki Concert (Gambit 69275), The Very Best of the Atlantic Years (Rhino/Atlanic 8122 799789 2), The Pianists’ Touch - Lonehill Jazz (LHJ10297), Art Farmer - The Time And The Place/The Lost Concert (Mosaic MCD-1010 ), Leonard Feather Presents - The Mitchells & The Joneses (Fresh Sound FSR-CD 444), Ella Fitzgerald - Sweet and Hot (Decca/Verve 0602517247642), Erroll Garner - Concert By The Sea (JazzBeat 506), Gaudi + Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Dub Qawwali (Six Degrees 657036 1137-2 ), Dizzy Gillespie - Cognac Blues Dizzy Gillespie Live At The Jazz Plaza Festival ’85 (Yemaya Records YY9438 (2CDs), Trilok Gurtu - Twenty Years Of Talking Tabla (Union Street/Manteca MantDBL517), Joe Harriott Quintet - Free Form (Gott CD063), Johnny Hodges /Wild Bill Davis - Con-Soul & Jazz/Wild Bill Is The Boss (Lonehill LHJ 10283), Joe’s Blues featuring Grant Green (Lonehill LHJ 10284), Mess of Blues (featuring Kenny Burrell), (Lonehill LHJ 10285), Blue Hodge (Featuring Les Spann & Mundell Lowe), (Lonehill LHJ 10286), Norman Howard & Joe Phillips - Burn Baby Burn (ESP-Disk ESP-4033), Steve Lacy/ Roswell Rudd - Early And Late (Cuneiform RUNE 250/251), Cleo Laine and John Dankworth - I Hear Music: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Cleo Laine and John Dankworth (Salvo/Union Square SALVOBX 003 - 4 CD Set), Onzy Matthews - Mosaic Select - Mosaic Select 29 (3 CDs), Steve Miller/Lol Coxhill Coxhill/Miller Miller/Coxhill & The Story So Far… (Cuneiform Rune 253/254), Oscar Peterson - Stéphane Grappelli Quartet Vol.1 (Universal/EmArcy 0602498419991), Jorge Reyes - De Todo Un Poco (Yemaya YY9434), George Russell - Things New – Unissued Concerts 1960 & 1964 (RLR88630), Rachid Taha - The Definitive Collection (Wrasse WR 182. 2007), Rachid Taha (v) and others, Mike Taylor Remembered – (Dusk Fire DUSKCD103), Mike Westbrook Orchestra - On Duke’s Birthday (hatOLOGY 635), Mike Westbrook - Brass Band Mama Chicago (Jazzprint JPVP139CD)