Mark Sherman: My Other Voice

Pianist Sherman leads an in-the-pocket hard-bop outfit featuring fine Jackie McLean-ish altoist Vincent Herring and the dependable Allen-Drummond rhythm section,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Threnody (Berthling/Küchen/Noble): A Paradigm Of Suspicion

An engagingly boisterous improv session highlighted by Steve Noble's African-influenced drum whirlwind, Küchen's Ayler-ish conversational sax distortions and Berthling's vigorous...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Album Interview: Scott Kinsey: We Speak Luniwaz

Katisse Buckingham | Jimmy Haslip | Scott Kinsey | Bobby Thomas | Arto Tunöboyaciyan | Hadrien Feraud | Gergö Borlai

Scott Kinsey got to know Joe Zawinul in the last years of his life and was namechecked as an ‘Assistant...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Tribe: Hometown: Detroit Sessions 1990-2014

Mbiyu Chui | Pamela Wise | Djallo Djakate | Wendell Harrison | Harold McKinney | Phil Ranelin

For those who thought that Detroit label/collective Tribe, a jewel in the crown of independent jazz, wound down in the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Marc Copland: And I Love Her

Joey Baron | Marc Copland | Drew Gress

The last Copland that I reviewed here, Nightfall (see Jazzwise 226), was an unaccompanied recital done in 2016, but this...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Donald Byrd/Herbie Hancock: Royal Flush

Billy Higgins | Donald Byrd | Jimmy Cobb | Herbie Hancock | Pepper Adams | Cleveland Eaton | Teddy Robinson | Laymon Jackson | Butch Warren | Teddy Charles

First things first; these sessions were all made and released under Byrd's leadership. I suspect that the opportunistic folk at...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: The Early Years – 1954-59

Apart from two tracks this is identical to Avid's double-disc set Four Classic Albums, currently on sale at £5.99 as...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2019

Bob James & David Sanborn: Double Vision

Al Jarreau | Bob James | Marcus Miller | Steve Gadd | Eric Gale | David Sanborn | Paul Milton Jackson | Paulinho Da Costa

As this reissue's sleeve notes recall, Double Vision was roasted by writers on its release. And 30 years later there's...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2019

Matthew Halsall: Oneness

Gaz Hughes | Gavin Barras | Stan Ambrose | Matthew Halsall | Rachael Gladwin | Adam Fairhall | Chris Davies | Nat Birchall | Mohamed Assani

These unreleased 2008 sessions form an origin story and farewell to Halsall's Gondwana Orchestra in its current form, as he...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2019

Dave Holland/Zakir Hussain/Chris Potter: Good Hope

Dave Holland | Zakir Hussain | Chris Potter

This is a very personal and, it must be said, intimate and intricate vision of a jazz and Indian music...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2019