Reviews

Review of Brooklyn Jazz Underground: A Portrait of Brooklyn

Brooklyn Jazz Underground: A Portrait of Brooklyn

Anne Mette Iversen | Dan Pratt | David Smith | Rob Garcia | Adam Kolker

BJU

Rating: ★★

With umptillion boho types and artists of all stripes calling Brooklyn home, this ensemble shows some chutzpah by referring to...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2012

Review of Album Interview: Terje Rypdal: Odyssey: In Studio In Concert

Album Interview: Terje Rypdal: Odyssey: In Studio In Concert

Terje Rypdal | As above but with Swedish Radio Jazz Group and without Sunde | Brynjulf Blix | Torbjørn Sunde | Sveinung Hovensjø | Svein Christiansen

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

Released under the Old & New Masters umbrella, this is a must-buy CD. Its importance is manifold. Firstly, the, epic...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2012

Review of Album Interview: Ian Shaw: A Ghost In Every Bar

Album Interview: Ian Shaw: A Ghost In Every Bar

Sue Richardson | Simon Wallace | Ian Shaw

Splashpoint Records

Rating: ★★★★

Fran Landesman (1927-2011) will forever be associated with the two songs, now standards, she penned with Tommy Wolf in the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2012

Review of Raynald Colom: Rise

Raynald Colom: Rise

Rory Simmons | Chris Hill | Terje Evensen | Elisabeth Nygård

Babel

Rating: ★★★★

In a blindfold test, I’d have sworn this was Jeremy Pelt or even Wallace Roney. And I’m embarrassed that I’ve...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2013

Review of Orrin Evans: Flip the Script

Orrin Evans: Flip the Script

Orrin Evans | Ben Wolfe | Donald Edwards

Posi-Tone

Rating: ★★★★

When Orrin Evans was making records for Criss Cross in the late-1990s, you always felt there was potentially something very...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2012

Review of Trevor Watts and Veryan Weston: Dialogues in Two Places

Trevor Watts and Veryan Weston: Dialogues in Two Places

Trevor Watts | Veryan Weston

Hi4Head

Rating: ★★★★

Here are two masters of their art on astonishing form. The two long and one short improvisations on the first...

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: September/2012

Review of Ivo Perelman: The Foreign Legion

Ivo Perelman: The Foreign Legion

Ivo Perelman | Matt Shipp | Gerald Cleaver

CD

Rating: ★★★

Family Ties, Brazilian saxophonist Perelman's previous release, presented a piano-less trio and now this session unveils a bass-less one. It's...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2012

Review of Gerardo Núñez: Travesía

Gerardo Núñez: Travesía

Pablo Martin | Albert Sanz | Isabel Núñez Cortes | Antonio Ramos ‘Maca’ | Carmen Corte | Gerardo Núñez | Perico Sambeat | Mariano Diaz | Carlota Pass | Pepe Rivero

ACT Music

Rating: ★★★★

That Gerardo Núñez is widely regarded as the most important innovator of flamenco music after the illustrious Paco de Lucia...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2012

Review of Nick Malcolm Quartet: Glimmers

Nick Malcolm Quartet: Glimmers

Nick Malcolm | Alexander Hawkins | Olie Brice | Mark Whitlam

FMR Records

Rating: ★★★

The Bristol-based trumpeter Nick Malcolm, who recently appeared on BBC Radio's Jazz on 3 Introducing with the band Dakhla, is...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012

Review of Don Cherry: Organic Music Society

Don Cherry: Organic Music Society

Tage Siven | Tommy Goldmann | Moki Cherry | Cherry | Anana Rydvall | Christer Bothén | Nana Vasconcelos | Okay Temiz | Muvaffak “Maffy” Falay | Marianne Rydvall

Caprice

Rating: ★★★★

The great champion of the most universal of universal sounds is caught on masterful form, proving that borders between both...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2012

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