Reviews

Review of IST: A More Attractive Way

IST: A More Attractive Way

Rhodri Davies

Confront Recordings Core Series Core

Rating: ★★★

This stylishly-packaged box set is a valuable record of the early career of that pioneering improv trio IST, starting with...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2021

Review of Irène Schweizer/Hamid Drake: Celebration

Irène Schweizer/Hamid Drake: Celebration

Irène Schweizer

Intakt

Rating: ★★★★

Swiss pianist Irène Schweizer has been a towering figure of European free jazz for six decades – often compared with...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2021

Review of Ray Russell Sextet ft. Harry Beckett: Forget To Remember: Live Vol. 2 1970

Ray Russell Sextet ft. Harry Beckett: Forget To Remember: Live Vol. 2 1970

Ray Russell

Jazz In Britain

Rating: ★★★★

In 1969, the CBS Realm label released Ray Russell's Dragon's Hill. It was followed in 1971 by Rites and Rituals....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2021

Review of Nigel Price Organ Trio: Wes Reimagined

Nigel Price Organ Trio: Wes Reimagined

Nigel Price

Editor's Choice

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

This is Price's most impressive recording to date. He thinks so, too. He told Jazzwise (in our December 2020 issue):...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2021

Review of Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller: In Harmony

Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller: In Harmony

Roy Hargrove

Editor's Choice

Resonance

Rating: ★★★★

Though the selling point is perhaps that both Hargrove and Miller departed well before their time (Roy in 2018 aged...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2021

Review of Simon Moullier: Countdown

Simon Moullier: Countdown

Simon Moullier

Fresh Sound New Talent

Rating: ★★★

Following on from last year's quintet debut Spirit Song comes a stripped-down vibes-bass-drum trio that further highlights the very impressive...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2021

Review of Dave Holland: Another Land

Dave Holland: Another Land

Dave Holland

Editor's Choice

Edition EDN

Rating: ★★★★

The guitar, bass and drums trio can sit anywhere on a broad stylistic spectrum in jazz, encompassing anything from the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2021

Review of Benito Gonzalez: Sing to the World

Benito Gonzalez: Sing to the World

Nicholas Payton

Rainy Days Records Rainy

Rating: ★★★

Encountering Venezuelan pianist Benito Gonzalez as an exciting McCoy Tyner-steeped thirtysomething with Kenny Garrett's band at Ronnie's in 2006, it...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2021

Review of The Rebecca Kilgore Trio: Vol. 1

The Rebecca Kilgore Trio: Vol. 1

Rebecca Kilgore

Heavywood

Rating: ★★★

US vocalist Kilgore has been around for a while now [she's in her early seventies] and was a favourite presence...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2021

Review of Tim Hagans & The NDR Big Band: A Conversation

Tim Hagans & The NDR Big Band: A Conversation

Tim Hagans

Waiting Moon Records/Bandcamp

Rating: ★★★

Tim Hagans is one of the few musicians to have played with both Stan Kenton and Woody Herman (in the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2021

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