Reviews
Alyn Shipton’s New Orleans Friends: In Concert
Adrian Cox | Finlay Milne | Alyn Shipton | Simon Picton | Richard Simmons | Emile Martyn
Author and Jazzwise scribe Shipton has long had an active side-line as bassist and bandleader. More recently this has been...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2022
Gustaf Ljunggren with Skúli Sverrison: Floreana
Skúli Sverrison | Gustaf Ljunggren
Expansively ambient with limpid, folk-like melodies, this could be ECM getting it together in the country. “I listened inside, and...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: July/2022
Brandon Lopez/Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey: No Es La Playa
Tom Rainey | Brandon Lopez | Ingrid Laubrock
This trio collaboration – of long-time partners Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey on saxes and drums, joined by young Puerto...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2022
ARC Trio and the John Daversa Big Band: ARCeology: The Music of MSM Schmidt
If you like big-band fusion, you’ll like this large-forces, multiple-guest-spot makeover of the music of Bremen-based jazz fusion keyboardist Michael...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2022
John Lewis: Before The MJQ: Early Years 1946-52
The figure of John Lewis is so wedded to the Modern Jazz Quartet that it’s an interesting project to group...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2022
Blue Notes: Legacy: Live in South Africa 1964
Chris McGregor | Louis Moholo-Moholo | Johnny Dyani | Mongezi Feza | Dudu Pukwana | Nick Moyake
One year before Live in South Africa 1964, Chris McGregor recorded Jazz: The African Sound as Chris McGregor and the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2022
Bobby Sparks: Paranoia
A sprawling multi-disc, 26-track set with a De Millean cast means plenty to listen to and much to talk about....
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2022
Nimbus Sextet: Forward Thinking
As the New Thing continues to evolve around them, bringing in all manner of contemporary urban sounds within the UK...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: July/2022
Brian Landrus: Red List
Brian Landrus, the Brooklyn-based multi-reeds virtuoso, not only favours deep-register instruments like bass clarinets and bass flutes, but musical ventures...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2022
Søren Lee: Diversity Trio: Live In Copenhagen
Niclas Campagnol | Linley Marthe | Søren Lee
This two-CD set takes-up where 2018’s Søren Lee Diversity Trio left off: consummate, articulate music making framing Lee’s classy improvisations....
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2022
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