Reviews
Richard Galliano New York Tango Trio: Cully 2022
Richard Galliano | Sébastien Giniaux | Diego Imbert
There is no gainsaying the status of Galliano as the premier accordionist of his generation. That is, in jazz terms,...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Julian Nicholas Band: Rising
John Bedford | Mark Edwards | Julian Nicholas | Thaddeus Kelly | Mike Pickering | David Wickins
Originally released in the 1990s on cassette and CD on titles such as Square Groove, Mountain People and Heavy Plant...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
National Youth Jazz Orchestra: She Said
She Said reflects an ongoing ambition by NYJO to re-shape the gender mix not only of its own projects but...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Freddie Hubbard: Complete Blue Note & Impulse! ’60s Studio Sessions
The enclosed essay by Bob Blumenthal reminds us that three promising 1960s trumpeters all emerged in 1938: Hubbard, Booker Little...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Directions In Jazz Unit directed by Bill Le Sage: New Directions in Jazz
This is a valuable addition to the three albums the Directions in Jazz Unit made, two under their own name...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Maria Mendes: Saudade, Colour of Love
the Metropole Orkest | John Beasley | Mário Costa | Jasper Somsen | Maria Mendes | Cédric Hanriot
A love letter both to fado and to jazz, and the boundless possibilities that come from marrying the two, Saudade,...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Charles Mingus: Landmark Albums 1956-60
Having warned in Jazzwise 275 that my reissue of the year “may not be for Mingus beginners”, here is the...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Aaron Liddard: Nylon Man
“Jazz is the only living musical art-form that is not defined by its exclusions," says saxophonist-keyboardist-composer-arranger Aaron Liddard. “At its...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Marilyn Mazur's Shamania: Rerooting
Leave it to Marilyn Mazur to take us back to our roots: to Gaia. Mother Earth. Our Selves. Brimming with...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Wolfert Brederode/Matangi Quartet/Joost Lijbaart: Ruins and Remains
The young Dutch pianist Wolfert Brederode wrote his Ruins and Remains suite in 2018 to commemorate the centenary of the...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
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