Thelonious Monk: Monk's Music

Ray Copeland | Wilbur Ware | Thelonious Monk | Coleman Hawkins | Shadow Wilson | Gigi Gryce | John Coltrane | Art Blakey

A famous album in its day, now revamped without its famous cover-shot of the artist but with two shots by...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2020

Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic IX: Pannonica – Tribute to the Jazz Baroness

Anton Eger | Charenée Wade | Ernie Watts | Dan Berglund | Iiro Rantala | Angelika Niescier

Siggi Loch's immaculately curated jazz concert series, Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic, continues on record with an ‘A’ list of European...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2019

Tom Pierson Orchestra: Last Works

Tom Pierson | Lou Marini | Shuichi Enomoto | Kanoa Mendenhall | Robinson Khoury | Lew Solof | Pheeroan akLaf

The 71-year-old arranger-pianist Pierson spends the majority of his time in Japan these days, hence this music's appearance on a...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2019

Vic Juris: Two Guitars

Juris plays acoustic and electric. His singer-songwriter sensibilities, as well as solid jazz credentials, ensure a warmly consummate contemporary swinging...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2019

Norma Winstone & John Taylor: In Concert

Norma Winstone | John Taylor

Following a summer 1988 teaching assignment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, singer Norma Winstone and pianist John...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2019

Stephan Micus: White Night

On his 23rd solo album for ECM, the roots-infused one-man band griot lays out his sonic mantra with a kaleidoscope...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2019

RagaJazz: Purple Twilight

Yes, it's been done on many occasions before, but saxophonist Lars Møller's indo-jazz project, a Scandi-Indian collaboration combining classical raga...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2019

Daniel Carter/Tobias Wilner/Djibril Toure: New York United

This experimental downtown-NYC veteran reedsman/trumpeter meets Tobias Wilner's electronica trickery for a set of cosmic modal groove-ology. Imagine Jon Hassell...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2019

Stan Getz: Imagination

Four-star music, but in a slightly perfunctory selection, so if you're going for Getz in this period seek out the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2019

Stephan Crump/Ingrid Laubrock/Cory Smythe: Channels

Cory Smythe | Ingrid Laubrock | Stephan Crump

Here's an unusual proposition: a leaderless, egalitarian trio of saxophone, bass and piano making delicately poised, spontaneously generated chamber music....

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2019