Reviews
Bill Evans/Scott LaFaro/Paul Motian: Complete Trio Recordings
Scott LaFaro | Paul Motian | Bill Evans
There have been at least a couple of heavyweight multi-CD sets of this hugely influential and original trio, notably Riverside’s...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2023
Bobby Previte: Empty Suits
New York’s Downtown scene of the 1980s/early 90s – chronicled last issue – did not lack for interesting bands, original...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2023
Linda May Han Oh: The Glass Hours
Obed Calvaire | Fabian Almazan | Sara Serpa | Linda May Han Oh | Mark Turner
Linda May Han Oh, one of the most in-demand bass players on the scene and partner to jazz stars including...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2023
Peter Brötzmann/Majid Bekkas/Hamid Drake: Catching Ghosts
Hamid Drake | Peter Brötzmann | Majid Bekkas
If you think of Gnawa as the Moroccan blues then it makes sense that jazz musicians are repeatedly drawn to...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2023
Gary Smulyan: Tadd’s All Folks
David Wong | Pete Malinverni | Matt Wilson | Anaïs Reno | Gary Smulyan
Smulyan is the premier baritone saxophonist of our day – versatile, yet irresistibly creative, as he helms this programme of...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2023
Richard Jones Trio: Angle Shades
Johnny Hunter | Richard Jones | Joshua Cavanagh-Brierley
The opening moments of this debut recording from a young Mancunian acoustic piano trio sound almost accidental, like walking in...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: June/2023
Duncan Eagles Quartet: Narrations
Zoé Pascal | Tomasz Bura | Duncan Eagles | Max Luthert
With Narrations, Duncan Eagles takes another step away from the Partikel nucleus that acted as the saxophonist-composer’s creative crucible for...
Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: June/2023
Norman Connors: Dance Of Magic
To a generation of 1980s clubgoers, drummer Norman Connors is one of the archetypal jazz-funk heroes whose Starship Orchestra had...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2023
Brandee Younger: Brand New Life
If there’s a sampled harp in a hip-hop cut, Dorothy Ashby probably has something to do with it. An artist...
Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: June/2023
Gary Brunton: Trên Dydd
Emil Spányi | Andrea Michelutti | Paul Lay | Gary Brunton | François Jeanneau
Burnley-born double bassist Gary Brunton was once entranced by the playing of Jean-Jacques Burnel of The Stranglers, but then decided...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2023
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