Mike LeDonne: It's All Your Fault

The veteran keyboardist LeDonne and his 20-year old Grover quartet joins forces with a post-bop big band for a swingin'...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2021

Charlie Parker: The Charlie Parker Collection

Philly Joe Jones | Charlie Parker | Kenny Clarke | Hank Jones | JJ Johnson | Al Haig | Flip Phillips | Lucky Thompson | Roy Haynes | Art Taylor

‘We would emphasise that this does not purport to be a complete or definitive anthology [but] a reasonably comprehensive and...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: September/2021

Troy Roberts & TimJago: Best Buddies

Karl Florisson | Troy Roberts | Tim Jago | Ben Vanderwal

This is an all-Australian quartet recorded in their home country, although Roberts is normally based in New York, and enjoys...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2021

Thomas Strønen/Ayumi Tanaka/Marthe Lea: Bayou

Ayumi Tanaka | Marthe Lea | Thomas Strønen

The drummer-composer Thomas Strønen has been a vital presence on the Nordic contemporary jazz scene since the new millenium. He's...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2021

Bobbie Gentry: The Windows of The World

Bobbie Gentry | uncredited musicians

What's the enigmatic creator of ‘Ode To Billie Joe’ and ‘Fancy’ doing in Jazzwise then? A good question, and one...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2021

Manuel Valera: Live at Diese Onze

Clarence Penn | Manuel Valera | Dieter Glawischnig

One of the toughest calls for a jazz pianist is to play the music of Thelonious Monk without inadvertently assuming...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2021

Thomas Champagne's Random House: Tide

A quartet project led by a young Belgian saxophonist-composer, it's nevertheless Guillaume Vierset's guitar that asserts a wistful mood derived...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2021

Gene Segal: Double Rainbow

Jay Anderson | Gene Segal | Adam Nussbaum

Russian-born guitarist Segal moved to New York as a child, and this is his sixth album for Steeplechase -but his...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2021

Curtis Amy & Dupree Bolton: Katanga!

Ray Crawford | Victor Gaskin | Curtis Amy | Dupree Bolton | Jack Wilson | Doug Sides

At a time when West Coast jazz was primarily associated with young, white, college-educated jazz musicians who had graduated through...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2021

Susana Santos Silva & Torbjörn Zetterberg: Tomorrow

Susana Santos Silva | Torbjörn Zetterberg

Susana Santos Silva's trumpet is raw and reverberant with moments of classical beauty, mixing primeval ritual and fragile oases of...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2021