Enrico Pieranunzi: The Copenhagen Concert

Paul Motian | Enrico Pieranunzi | Marc Johnson

Italian pianist Enrico Pieranunzi – veteran of projects with the likes of Ennio Morricone, Chet Baker and Art Farmer –...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2020

Eric Revis: Slipknots Through a Looking Glass

Justin Faulkner | Darius Jones | Eric Revis | Kris Davis | Bill McHenry | Chad Taylor

While developing an illustrious profile since 1997 as the bassist in the Branford Marsalis quartet, Eric Revis' achievements as an...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

Norman Williams & The One Mind Experience: The Bishop

Paul Arslanian | Norman Williams | Obadi | Allen Pitman | Michael Formanek

I have to confess that my knowledge of American altoist ‘Bishop’ Norman Williams is extremely sketchy; information on him appears...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: November/2020

Jesse Fischer: Resilience

The young Brooklyn-based multi-keyboardist's contemporary mainstream groove pop-fusion draws subtle influences from folky roots music but it's rather bland and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: Axiom

Alex Han | Weedie Braimah | Elena Pinderhughes | Corey Fonville | Christian Scott | Kris Funn | Lawrence Fields

An album that's in hindsight a watershed moment because of its recording date. The multi-award winning trumpeter Christian Scott and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

Terje Rypdal: Conspiracy

Terje Rypdal | Stale Storløkken | Pal Thowsen | Endre Hareide Hallre

The very absence of Rypdal from a recording studio for nearly two decades only adds to the mythology of the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2020

John Coltrane with the Red Garland Trio & Quintet: Four Classic Albums

John Coltrane

Now that Universal has killed off the once-ubiquitous Original Jazz Classics label, home of hundreds of reissues of vintage sessions...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: November/2020

Benn Clatworthy System 6: Bennie’s Lament

Jeremy Sellers | Bruce Lett | Yayo Morales | Benn Clatworthy | Ron Stout | Bryan Velasco

Hastings-born saxophonist Clatworthy has led a double life for quite a while now. Based in Los Angeles, he makes an...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2020

Dominik Wania: Lonely Shadows

The pianist, a member of the Maciej Obara quartet, goes solo with a series of spontaneous improvs on his ECM...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2020

Rez Abbasi: Django-Shift

Michael Sarin | Neil Alexander | Rez Abbasi

Django-Shift should be listened to alongside Diminishing Blackness, the splendid Cherry Red Records boxset that emphasised Reinhardt the composer. Narratives...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2020