Reviews

Review of Steve Gadd/Eddie Gomez/Ronnie Cuber/The WDR Big Band: Center Stage

Steve Gadd/Eddie Gomez/Ronnie Cuber/The WDR Big Band: Center Stage

Eddie Gomez | Steve Gadd | Karolina Strassmayer | Andy Hunter | Bobby Sparks II | Ludwig Nuss | Paul Heller | Simon Oslender | Ronnie Cuber | Bruno Muller

Leopard

Rating: ★★★

As big band leader and rising star Olivia Murphy has lamented, the UK lacks standing bands like the Danish Radio...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2022

Review of Tyshawn Sorey Trio: Mesmerism

Tyshawn Sorey Trio: Mesmerism

Aaron Diehl | Matt Brewer | Tyshawn Sorey

www.tyshawnsorey.com

Rating: ★★★★

Known for his work with American prime movers Vijay Iyer and Steve Lehman as well as his own bands, drummer...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2022

Review of Eli Winter

Eli Winter

Ryley Walker | Yasmin Williams | Giulia Chiappetta | Whitney Johnson | Jordan Reyes | Sam Wagster | Cameron Knowler | Tyler Damon | David Grubbs | Liz Downing

Three Lobed Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Three releases, all featuring trumpeter-composer Jaimie Branch, and all given extra – and unwelcome – piquancy by her sudden death...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2022

Review of Alan Broadbent: Like Minds

Alan Broadbent: Like Minds

Billy Mintz | Harvie S | Alan Broadbent

Savant

Rating: ★★★

Alongside Broadbent's frequent work with vocalists – including not only Georgia Mancio but Sheila Jordan (see below) – he is...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2022

Review of Owen Broder: Hodges: Front and Center Vol. 1

Owen Broder: Hodges: Front and Center Vol. 1

Carmen Staaf | Bryan Carter | Owen Broder | Barry Stephenson | Riley Mulherkar

Outside In Music

Rating: ★★★★

Broder is yet another of the many highly competent New York-based players who seem to have passed local audiences by. He...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2022

Review of Michael Brecker Band & Randy Brecker Band: Live at Fabrik

Michael Brecker Band & Randy Brecker Band: Live at Fabrik

Mike Stern | Jeff Andrews | Bob Berg | Joey Baron | Dieter Ilg | Adam Nussbaum | David Kikoski | Joey Calderazzo | Randy Brecker | Michael Brecker

Jazzline Classics

Rating: ★★★

The Michael Brecker Band extensively toured in the late 1980s and 90s, and was widely expected to feature on Brecker's...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2022

Review of Mark de Clive-Lowe & Friends: Freedom: Celebrating The Music Of Pharoah Sanders

Mark de Clive-Lowe & Friends: Freedom: Celebrating The Music Of Pharoah Sanders

Corbin Jones | Dwight Trible | Teodross Avery | Tommaso Cappellato | Mark De Clive-Lowe | Corbin Carlos Ninos

Soul Bank

Rating: ★★★

Promises, the great Pharoah Sanders’ collaboration with Floating Points was a notable album of 2021, and a consolidation of the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2022

Review of Martial Solal: Martial Solal at Newport ‘63

Martial Solal: Martial Solal at Newport ‘63

Teddy Kotick | Paul Motian | Martial Solal

RCA Victor

Pianist Martial Solal was born in Algeria and moved to Paris in February 1950 to further his career in jazz....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2022

Review of Wadada Leo Smith: Emerald Duets

Wadada Leo Smith: Emerald Duets

Andrew Cyrille | Jack DeJohnette | Pheeroan aKLaff | Han Bennink | Pheeroan akLaff | Wadada Leo Smith

TUM TumBox

Rating: ★★★★

A prolific output in the last decade has seen Smith explore many musical settings but the trumpeter's imagination knows no...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2022

Review of According To The Sound: In-Tension

According To The Sound: In-Tension

James Morton | Otto Hashmi | Jim Barr | Theo Croker | The Academy of St Mary-le-Bow | Ambrose Akinmusire | Alex Fryer | Patrick Case | Adam King | Pasquale Votino

Losen Records

Rating: ★★★★

This is the second release from British ‘concept studio band’ According To The Sound, aka core duo, pianist Adam Parry-Davies...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2022

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