Reviews
Oscar Peterson Quartet: City Lights – Live in Munich, 1994
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen | Lorne Lofsky | Oscar Peterson | Martin Drew
This latest collaboration between Mack Avenue and Two Lions producer Kelly Peterson, OP’s widow, follows closely on from Con Alma...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/2024
Ryan Truesdell: Synthesis: The String Quartet Sessions
Jay Anderson | John Hollenbeck | Ryan Truesdell | Joyce Hammann | Anat Cohen | Sara Caswell
Ryan Truesdell is best-known for his work composing arranging, and producing for large jazz ensembles. When the pandemic made gathering...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: December/2024
Brandon Sanders: The Tables Will Turn
Christie Dashiell | David Wong | Warren Wolf | Chris Lewis | Brandon Sanders | Keith Brown
Brandon Sanders’ grandmother ran a jazz club in Kansas City, and although he grew up in LA, studied at Berklee...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: December/2024
Nick Adema: Urban Chaos
The trombonist Nick Adema wrote the compositions for his second album (following DemiLAN, released in 2021) as a musical commentary...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/2024
Playtime: Morse Code Through the Lights
Benjamin Franklin, founding father of the USA among other fripperies, reckoned that ‘Out of adversity comes forth opportunity.’ Ben never...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: December/2024
Pat Thomas: The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir
These new releases from Cafe OTO’s in-house label showcase two pianists who have proven firm favourites as performers at the...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: December/2024
Emily Remler: Cookin’ at the Queens: Live in Las Vegas 1984 & 1988
Carson Smith | Tom Montgomery | Emily Remler | Cocho Arbe | Tom Pisci
Here’s a handsome package honouring Remler in her prime. Just two or so years after her stunning debut Firefly, which...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: December/2024
Jason Robinson: Ancestral Numbers 11
Michael Dessen | Drew Gress | Joshua White | Ches Smith | Jason Robinson
Since his emergence in the late 1990s, Californian saxophonist Robinson has been developing an appealing contemporary jazz, which blends bop...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/2024
Jacqui Dankworth: Windmills
Jacqui Dankworth | BBC Big Band and the Carducci Quartet
With Charlie Wood’s sumptuous arrangements completely enveloping the magnificent voice of Jacqui Dankworth, this hour-long collection of 12 songs is...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: December/2024
Brian Lynch: 7 x 7 by 7
Craig Handy | Murph Aucamp | Brian Lynch | Boris Kozlov | Luis Perdomo | Kyle Swan | Alex Wintz
Seven musicians, playing seven pieces, all seven minutes long, sounds like a gimmick. Well, it is, but when the music...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/2024
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