Reviews
Arild Andersen: Landloper
As one of Norway’s jazz grandmasters, Andersen has covered vast tracts of sonic terrain in his long and illustrious career...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: February/2025
AuB: Folk Devils
Jasper Høiby | Morgan Guerin | Tom Barford | Maria Chiara Argirò | Marc Michel | Alex Hitchcock
AuB is co-led by Alex Hitchcock and Tom Barford, a pair of the UK’s finest young contemporary tenor horns.Following their...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2025
Benjamin Koppel: Portable Infinity
Scott Colley | Magnus Öström | Benjamin Koppel | Jacob Karlzon
Danish saxophonist Koppel is joined by players from Sweden and the USA, recorded live at the RSI Television Studio 2...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: February/2025
Jason Palmer: The Cross Over: Live in Brooklyn
Marcus Gilmore | Jason Palmer | Mark Turner | Larry Grenadier
These two intense live albums, recorded in August 2023 at Brooklyn’s Ornithology listening space, present two heavyweight left-field quartets playing...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: February/2025
Naomi Moon Siegel: Shatter the Glass Sanctuary
Andy Coe | Naomi Moon Siegel | Kelsey Mines | Ray Larsen | Marina Albero | Christopher Icasiano
This is the third album from trombonist and educator Siegel, who has penned all the tunes. Her band are from...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: February/2025
Lophae: Perfect Strangers
Sam Rapley | Ben Brown | Greg Sanders | Yelfris Valdés | Tom Herbert
When Sam Rapley’s languid tenor sax eases in over the light touch rhythms from Tom Herbert’s bass guitar and Ben...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: February/2025
Ivo Perelman: Messa Di Voce
Prolific a recording artist as he is, saxophonist Ivo Perelman has formed a fairly tight circle of collaborators over the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2025
Sphere: The Complete Live at Umbria Jazz
Kenny Barron | Buster Williams | Ben Riley | Charlie Rouse
Although as their name suggests Sphere, were formed with more than a nod to Thelonious Monk, (Rouse and Riley having...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2025
James Brandon Lewis Trio: Apple Cores
Chad Taylor | James Brandon Lewis | Josh Werner
The term ‘Apple Cores’ has a strong resonance in black cultural history. It was the name of a mid 1960s...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2025
Out Of/Into: Motion 1
Kendrick Scott | Matt Brewer | Immanuel Wilkins | Gerald Clayton | Joel Ross
A modern-day equivalent of previous Blue Note all-stars projects, notably 2017’s Our Point Of View (Glasper, Akinmusire, Loueke, Scott, Hodge,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2025
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