Reviews
Justin Thurgur: Many Faces
Justin Thurgur has an unusual CV of peregrinations around the musical globe, his session suitcase embellished with labels from his...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: August/2022
Partikel: Anniversary Song
Eric Ford | Duncan Eagles | Max Luthert
From the 2010 release of their eponymous debut album, sax-led trio Partikel have been lauded for their powerful individual playing...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: August/2022
Tom Prehn Quartet: Centrifuga & Solhverv
Tom Prehn | Poul Ehlers | Fritz Kogh | Finn Slumstrup
Until recently, the self-titled 1967 album by Danish pianist Tom Prehn’s free-jazz quartet was the group’s only available document. Then,...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2022
Fredrik Lindborg Trio and String Quartet: Riedel
Georg Riedel is one of the pillars of Swedish jazz. A bass player par excellence, his first name gig was...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2022
Various Artists: Ban The Bomb: Music of the Aldermaston Anti-Nuclear Marches
From childhood days in the early 1950s post-war shadow of Brixton bomb sites and ration book austerity, and later at...
Reviewed by Jon Newey in issue: August/2022
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: Where Rivers Meet
Konrad Wiszniewski | Tommy Smith | Martin Kershaw | Paul Towndrow
This impressive concert was streamed in May 2021 as it happened, and was reviewed in the Jazzwise live section in...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2022
Ricky Ford: The Wailing Sounds of Ricky Ford: Paul’s Scene
Mark Soskin | Jerome Harris | Ricky Ford | Barry Altschul
A former Mercer Ellington, Mingus and Hampton sideman, Ford seemed to be everywhere for a while, recording prolifically and touring....
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2022
Allison Miller/Carmen Staaf: Nearness
Within a minute or so of the powerful opening track ‘Dan Dan’ with thrashing drums and strong piano, its musical...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2022
Jonathan Barber & Vision Ahead: Poetic
Taber Gable | Matt Dwonszyk | Jonathan Barber | Andrew Renfroe | Godwin Louis
Some five years after their self-titled debut release, drummer Jonathan Barber and Vision Ahead’s fourth album rarely hits the heights,...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: August/2022
Steve Tibbetts: Hellbound Train: An Anthology
This double album retrospective of Steve Tibbetts’s work for ECM is not so much a ‘Best Of’ as a ‘Best...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2022
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