Reviews
Walter Smith III: Return to Casual
Walter Smith III expresses his deep modern jazz roots with an airy tenor sax tone and a ferocious but understated...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: April/2023
Karl Berger/Kirk Knuffke: Heart Is A Melody
Jay Anderson | Karl Berger | Kirk Knuffke | Matt Wilson
Now 87, the German-born vibist Berger is the doyen of the New York avant-garde, a long-time sideman with Don Cherry,...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2023
The Gaz Hughes Trio: Beboptical Illusion
Gaz Hughes | Andrzej Baranek | Ed Harrison
When the likes of Scott Hamilton, Alan Barnes and Tony Kofi want you on the kit, those are endorsements enough...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2023
Pure Desmond: Pure Desmond Play James Bond Songs
Christian Flohr | Johann Weiss | Sebastian Deufel | Lorenz Hargassner
Like all of you, I like to think I take my jazz seriously. But you know what? Sometimes I just...
Reviewed by Nina Fortune in issue: April/2023
Pharoah Sanders Quartet: Live at Fabrik Hamburg 1980
Pharoah Sanders | Idris Muhammad | Curtis Lundy | John Hicks
It's fair to say that even though two tracks from Fabrik are duplicated elsewhere (‘You Gotta Have Freedom’ and ‘Easy...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2023
Dave Liebman: Live At Smalls
Tyshawn Sorey | Dave Liebman | John Hébert | Peter Evans | Leo Genovese
It's often said that truly free music shouldn't necessarily preclude the possibility of playing in time. Or, put another way,...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2023
Various Artists: This Is Flying Dutchman 1969-1975
BGP, one of the foremost curators of classic independent black music, has issued many titles on the pioneering Flying Dutchman...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2023
Trichotomy: To Vanish
Sean Foran | Nicole Tait | Samuel Vincent | Danny Widdicombe | John Parker | Thomas Green
To Vanish is Australian trio Trichotomy's sixth album in a lively lifespan as a regular lineup - they convened as...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2023
Tristan Banks: View From Above
John Crawford | Paul Booth | Tristan Banks | Davide Mantovani
For three decades, the British session drummer Tristan Banks has been a first-call sideman for a ‘glitterati’ across jazz, pop...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2023
Julian Lage: The Layers
Bill Frisell | Dave King | Jorge Roeder | Julian Lage
Julian Lage has not only been prolific but gone up a few gears creatively with this being his third recording...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2023
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