Reviews
Jazz Sabbath: The 1968 Tapes
Milton Keanes | Jacque T’fono | Juan Také
If you’re going to make a musical joke, it had better be a good 'un. Jazz Sabbath's first, self-titled album...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2025
Training + Ruth Goller: Threads to Knot
Ruth Goller | Max Andrzejewski | Johannes Schleiermacher
For nearly two decades, Ruth Goller has been turning heads as an East London-based improvising electric bassist for Melt Yourself...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2025
Juliana Day: Lull
Zebedee Budworth | Manon McCoy | Juliana Day
Women working in the field of avant-jazz and improv are still a comparative rarity, so credit’s due to Tyneside’s enterprising...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2025
The Full Circle Quartet: Open Water
Josephine Davies | Angus Bishop | Joss Peach | Terry Pack
The Full Circle Quartet play with a chamber-like intimacy that belies their sinewy strengths. They have an affinity for nature,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2025
John Beasley and Frankfurt Radio Big Band: Returning to Forever
Set up with the blessing of Chick Corea before his death in 2021, this transatlantic project was delayed by Covid,...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2025
GØ: Ævir, amen
The first time I encountered this Faroese group was at last year’s Reykjavík Jazz Festival and they blew me away...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2025
Gordon Beck’s Gyroscope: Progress
Ron Mathewson | Tony Levin | Gordon Beck | Frank Ricotti | Brian Smith | Stan Sulzmann
One of the great, yet relatively unsung, heroes of British jazz, Gordon Beck was a world-class jazz pianist (his recordings...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2025
Ben Webster: At The Renaissance
Frank Butler | Jimmy Rowles | Red Mitchell | Jim Hall | Ben Webster
Taped by Contemporary Records in 1960, scheduled for belated issue in 1972, then unaccountably shelved only to finally see the...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: February/2025
Charles Mingus: Reincarnations
To say this is a follow-up to the Incarnations compilation (reviewed in Jazzwise 297) is to simplify a fairly complex...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2025
Renee Rosnes: Crossing Paths
The intersecting paths in this intriguing release from Renee Rosnes are Latin music and jazz, for which she has formed...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2025
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