Reviews
Larry Goldings Trio: I Will
Christian Euman | Larry Goldings | Karl McComas-Reichl
Many Jazzwise readers will be familiar with Larry Goldings as one of the leading Hammond organ players in jazz. But...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2025
Rainer Brüninghaus: Freigeweht
Jon Christensen | Kenny Wheeler | Rainer Brüninghaus | Brynjar Hoff
Brüninghaus is probably best known outside Germany for his sympathetic keyboard settings for Jan Garbarek, if not his collaborations with...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2025
Artemis: Arboresque
Noriko Ueda | Allison Miller | Ingrid Jensen | Nicole Glover | Renee Rosnes
When DownBeat readers voted Artemis ‘Jazz Group of The Year’ twice running (in 2023 and 2024), their enthusiasms probably weren’t...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2025
Bill Evans Trio: Explorations
Scott LaFaro | Paul Motian | Bill Evans
The second – and final – studio album recorded by the classic Evans/LaFaro/Motian trio, the aptly-named Explorationsis here presented as...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2025
Sidsel Endresen/Jan Bang/Erik Honoré: Punkt Live Remixes Vol. 2
Often in partnership with Jan Bang, Erik Honoré is a pioneer of live sampling, most famously in the pair’s Punkt...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2025
Confucius MC + Bastien Keb: Songs for Lost Travellers
Kofi Flexxx | Alex Judd | Bastien Keb | Tomo Xeri | Confucius MC | Pru Jones
Songs for Lost Travellers is an album that will make you feel. Riven with grief and anger, strafed with slivers...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2025
Nick Costley-White: Poncha
Julian Siegel | James Maddren | Nick Costley-White | Connor Chaplin
A third run out for Costley-White following 2018’s Detour Ahead, also with Chaplin on bass, and Nice Work! a trio...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2025
Jim Mullen Quartet: For Heaven’s Sake
Kristian Leth | Jim Mullen | Ben Paterson | Jan Harbeck
Our man Mullen apparently knows Copenhagen well, having played there regularly, often at the instigation of Danish drummer Leth. This...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2025
Fabienne Ambuehl: Thrive
Ant Law | Fabienne Ambhuel | Matt Ridley | Jon Scott | Tom Ollendorff
On her latest eight-track album, London-based Swiss pianist and composer Fabienne Ambuehl crafts a mesmerising soundscape that seamlessly blends songs...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2025
Phil Bancroft’s Beautiful Storm: Finding Hope When All Seems Lost
Graeme Stephen | Phil Bancroft | Gyan Singh
Beautiful Storm suggests a big band line-up, but this is actually a very intimate and unusual trio with a subtle...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: March/2025
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