Reviews
Ensemble Vår: Vår
Mats Lindström | Anna Lindal | Joachim Nordwall | Mats Gustafsson
If there’s one thing that unites the hugely diverse range of artists who record for Mark Wastell’s Confront label, it’s...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: November/2022
Thumbscrew: Multicolored Midnight
Michael Formanek | Mary Halvorson | Tomas Fujiwara
Anniversaries mean little musically, but there’s something reassuring in Thumbscrew marking a decade of collaboration with their seventh release together....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2022
Bill Evans/Robben Ford: Common Ground
Darryl Jones | Clifford Carter | Robben Ford | Max Mutzke | Keith Carlock | Bill Evans
From the get-go of the good time rocker ‘Ever Ready Sunday’ Evans and Ford are in a take-no-prisoners mood.Each of...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2022
Raph Clarkson’s Dissolute Society: This Is How We Grow
It’s disconcerting at first to hear the children’s voices which define this album, a sound associated with the saccharine and...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2022
Jeff Denson/Brian Blade/Romain Pilon: Finding Light
Jeff Denson | Brian Blade | Romain Pilon
Now in his mid-40s, Denson is a respected San Francisco educator and stand-up bassist, with an enviable CV as sideman...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2022
Charles Mingus: A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry with Charlie Mingus
You wonder why this Mingus album was so frequently overlooked among his fertile 1957 output – The Clown, Tijuana Moods...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2022
Charles Lloyd: Trios: Sacred Thread
Julian Lage | Charles Lloyd | Zakir Hussain
This is the third and final album in Blue Note's Charles Lloyd-dedicated ‘Trio of Trios’ series, with the orchestrally-resourceful guitarist...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2022
Brew Moore: Special Brew
Alex Riel | Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen | Harold Goldberg | Brew Moore
It was US tenor man Brew Moore who famously stated, “Anybody who doesn’t play like Pres [Lester Young] is wrong”...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2022
The Arild Anderson Group: Affirmation
Helge Lien | Arild Andersen | Håkon Mjåset Johansen | Marius Neset
First, congratulations to Arild Andersen for his prestigious award on 26 September 2022 as Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2022
Ernesto Cervini: Joy
Inspired by the bestselling Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series of detective novels by Louise Penny; and featuring an impressive cast...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2022
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