Reviews
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
Jeremy Rose & The Earshift Orchestra featuring Simon Barker and Chloe Kim: Disruption! The Voice of the Drums
Jeremy Rose made sure he was earmarked as talent to watch with 2015's Wire in the Blood, not only as...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
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