Reviews
William Parker & Ellen Christi: Cereal Music
William Parker | Ellen Christi
William Parker is rightly regarded as one of the pre-eminent bass players of our age but, on these two new...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2024
Rendell/Carr Quintet: BBC Jazz Club April 1965
Ian Carr | Dave Green | Trevor Tomkins | Michael Garrick | Don Rendell
The Rendell/Carr Quintet had already recorded Shades of Blue in October 1964, the band’s then pianist, Colin Purbrook, who would...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2024
Florian Willeitner: What the Fugue
Florian Willeitner | Ivan Turkalj | Alexander Wienand
“My studies of the counterpoint of both Bach and Shostakovich provided me with one important source,” says violinist and leader...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2024
Chick Webb & His Orchestra: All The Hits And More
Baltimore-born Webb (1909-1939) suffered from congenital tuberculosis of the spine which left him hunch-backed and often ill, yet despite this...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2024
Daniel Humair/Samuel Blaser/Heiri Känzig: Our Way
Daniel Humair | Heiri Känzig | Samuel Blaser
This all-star Swiss trio – which sometimes goes by the name Helveticus – is an intergenerational affair, bringing together octogenarian...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2024
Pat Metheny: MoonDial
Metheny places this excellent recording in a lineage preceded by One Quiet Night and What’s It All About – two...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2024
Soft Machine: Hovikodden 1971
Mike Ratledge | Hugh Hopper | Robert Wyatt | Elton Dean
Stone me… sometimes you have to side with Emperor Joseph II: “Too many notes, Mr Softs, too many notes…” It...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2024
Noah Haidu: Standards II
Billy Hart | Buster Williams | Noah Haidu
By the time Haidu’s trio recorded this, at the Van Gelder studio, they had been working together (on and off)...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2024
Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of McCoy Tyner
This album follows Herwig’s Latin Side of John Coltrane, bringing a septet approach to some of McCoy Tyner’s works and...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2024
Norma Winstone/Kit Downes: Outpost of Dreams
Having talked to Norma and Kit about this record (see Jazzwise, May 2024) and then hearing them in concert at...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2024
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