Reviews
Billy Hart: Just
Ethan Iverson | Ben Street | Billy Hart | Mark Turner
Billy Hart’s fluid rhythms and inner drive reflect decades of drumming at the highest level. Now aged 84, he releases...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: April/2025
Matt Carmichael: Dancing With Embers
Like his celebrated regular pianist and compatriot Fergus McCreadie, young Glasgow saxophonist and composer Matt Carmichael is as deeply immersed...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2025
Michael Wollny: Living Ghosts
Michael Wollny | Eric Schaefer | Tim Lefebrve
Once the face of Young German Jazz, Michael Wollny now approaches middle age. Thus he adopts a more considered approach...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2025
Sylvie Courvoisier/Mary Halvorson: Bone Bells
Sylvie Courvoisier | Mary Halvorson
Formed in 2017 and making their debut recording that year with Crop Circles, the idiosyncratic duo of Brooklyn-based Swiss pianist...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2025
Marius Neset: Cabaret
Marius Neset | Anton Eger | Magnus Hjorth | Elliot Galvin | Conor Chaplin
Marius Neset is a wonderful talent on his instrument, that much was apparent as a young musician in the band...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2025
Yaron Herman: Radio Paradise
Ziv Ravitz | Maria Grand | Alexandra Grimal | Haggai Cohen Milo | Yaron Herman
The explosive Herman has something of Craig Taborn’s attack which in turn leads us back to Andrew Hill’s deep structures....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2025
Frank Carlberg: Dream Machine
Dan Weiss | Frank Carlberg | John Hébert | Hery Paz | Leo Genovese
Frank Carlberg is a name that might ring a few bells for followers of left field New York-based contemporary jazz...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2025
Dave Manington’s Riff Raff: Weightless
Dave Manington | Tim Giles | Ivo Neame | Tom Challenger | Brigitte Beraha | Rob Updegraff
Riff Raff emerged out of North London’s Loop Collective and E17 Jazz, for whom Manington was an original member. Their...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2025
Mathias Eick: Lullaby
Mathias Eick | Kristjan Randalu | Hans Hulbkækmo | Ole Morten Vågen
Mathias Eick dropped Lullaby on Valentine’s Day, underlining where it’s at: romantically tilted, lyrical and open-hearted.His band shimmers with the...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: April/2025
Kenny Dorham: Blue Bossa in The Bronx: Live from the Blue Morocco
Paul Chambers Pierre Michelot | Kenny Dorham | Sonny Red | Denis Charles | Cedar Walton
For a trumpeter who was so often in the right place at the right time, there’s not nearly enough of...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2025
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