Reviews
Joy Ellis: Peaceful Place
Adam Osmianski | Joy Ellis | Henrik Jensen
With two acclaimed albums already behind her, Joy Ellis has established herself well in the niche of jazz singer-songwriters. Reviews...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: April/2022
Dexter Gordon/Slide Hampton: A Day In Copenhagen
How good it is to have this album in circulation again! Never the best-known of records, it’s probably Gordon’s finest...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2022
Don Rendell Sextet: The Odysseus Suite
Trevor Tomkins | Michael Garrick | Jack Thorncroft | Stan Robinson | Peter Shade | Don Rendell
Brought to us by part of the team who masterminded the excellent Jazz In Britain label, British Progressive Jazz is...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2022
John Taylor Sextet: Eye To Eye: Live 1971
Chris Pyne | John Taylor | Tony Levin | Chris Laurence | Kenny Wheeler | Stan Sulzmann
Brought to us by part of the team who masterminded the excellent Jazz In Britain label, British Progressive Jazz is...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2022
Leo Genovese: Ritual
Jeff Williams | Demian Cabaud | Nadia Larcher | Leo Genovese
Leo Genovese’s second album on the Brooklyn-based independent label 577 Records, which celebrates its twenty-first anniversary this year, displays a...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2022
Pascal Schumacher: Luna
Vibraphonist Pascal Schumacher’s last release was a solo outing called Sol – or ‘Sun’ – and now he’s back with...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2022
Maridalen: Bortenfor
Emil Brattested | Andreas Rødland Haga | Anders Hefre | Jonas Kilmark Vemøy | Aleksander Sjølie
Just as they did on last year’s lovely, self-titled debut, Maridalen again record in a lakeside wooden church in the...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2022
Bugge Wesseltoft: Be Am
Håkon Kornstad | Bugge Wesseltoft
I was pleasantly surprised to hear Bugge Wesseltoft playing solo on a grand piano in the stylish arrivals lounge at...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2022
Marquis Hill: New Gospel Revisited
Kendrick Scott | Walter Smith III | Harish Raghavan | James Francies | Marquis Hill | Joel Ross
A decade into his career following a dozen recordings as leader, the trumpeter-composer Marquis Hill decided a few years ago...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2022
Iiro Rantala: Potsdam
With memories of Rantala's Trio Töykeät (a group which in the early 2000s was picked up by Blue Note) now...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2022
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