Reviews

Review of Bill Laurance & Michael League: Where You Wish You Were

Bill Laurance & Michael League: Where You Wish You Were

Michael League | Bill Laurance

ACT Music

Rating: ★★★★

Bill Laurance and Michael League are the most prominent members of Grammy-winning supergroup Snarky Puppy, not the least because of...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2023

Review of Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Tony Orrell: That's My Life

Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Tony Orrell: That's My Life

Paul Dunmall | Paul Rogers | Tony Orrell

577 Records

Rating: ★★★★

This blistering live set, recorded in a Bristol pub in 1989, is the only document of this trio to have...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2023

Review of Huw V Williams: Constantly Moving Happiness Machines

Huw V Williams: Constantly Moving Happiness Machines

Mark Pringle | Jonathan Lindhorst | Max Santner | Huw V Williams

Self-release/Bandcamp

Rating: ★★★★

This project is self-effacingly underpinned by bassist Huw V Williams, a sought after low-end virtuoso from North Wales, whose work...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: March/2023

Review of Lambert: All This Time

Lambert: All This Time

Lambert | Felix Weigt | Luca Marini

Verve/Mercury

Rating: ★★★

Hamburg pianist Lambert wears a mask when he performs – and he first donned it long before Covid, moreover; the...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2023

Review of Esperanza Spalding: Radio Music Society 10th Anniversary Edition

Esperanza Spalding: Radio Music Society 10th Anniversary Edition

Tivon Pennicott | Jack DeJohnette | Billy Hart | Raydar Ellis | American Music Program | Lionel Loueke | Gilad Hekselman | with Savannah Children's Choir | Algebra Blessett | Q Tip

Editor's Choice

Craft Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

If her 2006 debut Junjo announced the arrival of a major new jazz talent (virtuoso bassist and singer and gifted...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2023

Review of Karl Jenkins: Penumbra II

Karl Jenkins: Penumbra II

Frank Ricotti | Ray Babbington | Ian Carr | Chris Spedding | John Marshall | Alan Skidmore | Dave MacRae | Karl Jenkins | Ray Warleigh | Brian Smith

Editor's Choice

Jazz In Britain JIB

Rating: ★★★★

The not-for-profit Jazz in Britain team have done UK jazz a huge service by releasing previously unissued material, mainly from...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2023

Review of Art Ensemble Of Chicago: The Sixth Decade: From Paris To Paris (Live At Sons D’Hiver)

Art Ensemble Of Chicago: The Sixth Decade: From Paris To Paris (Live At Sons D’Hiver)

Eddy Kwon | Babu Atiba | Dudu Kouaté | Hugh Ragin | Enoch Willliamson | Simon Sieger | Doussou Touré | Roco Cordova | Jaribu Shahid | Silvia Bologneis

Editor's Choice

RogueArt

Rating: ★★★★

As the first European city to give them much-needed performance and recording opportunities in the late 1960s, Paris has a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2023

Review of Freight Train

Freight Train

Paul Clarvis | Liam Noble | Cathy Jordan

Village Life

Rating: ★★★★

Pour yourself a long slow one, sit back and enjoy. If ever that old jazz cliché about the parts being...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2023

Review of Beats & Pieces Big Band: Good Days

Beats & Pieces Big Band: Good Days

Phil O’Malley | Anton Hunter | Rich McVeigh | Stewart Wilson | Ben Cottrell | Nick Walters | Anthony Brown | Finlay Panter | Oliver Dover | Graham South

Efpi Records

Rating: ★★★★

As with all other aspects of social-cultural life, the pandemic put the brakes on Ben Cottrell's much-admired Manchester-based Beats &...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2023

Review of Conic Rose: Heller Tag

Conic Rose: Heller Tag

Johannes Arzberger | Konstantin Döben | Bertram Burkert | Silvan Strauß | Franziska Aller

Conic Rose

Rating: ★★★★

“Coming from a jazz background,” Berlin trumpeter Konstantin Döben reflects, “I had to work up the courage to write something...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2023

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