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Review of Oli Steidle & The Killing Popes: Ego Pills

Oli Steidle & The Killing Popes: Ego Pills

Phil Donkin | Louise Boer | Liv Nicholls | Oli Steidle | Andreas Schaerer | Philipp Gropper | Kit Downes | Frank Möbus | Dan Nicholls | Petter Eldh

Shhpuma

Rating: ★★★

As you might have suspected from the band name and album title, this is not an album of straightahead jazz...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2019

Review of The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Countdown: Time In Outer Space

The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Countdown: Time In Outer Space

Joe Morello | Paul Desmond | Gene Wright | Dave Brubeck

Poll Winners Records

Rating: ★★★★

Six studio albums into his Columbia contract, Dave Brubeck recorded Time Out in June, July and August 1959. It was...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2019

Review of Ilmiliekki Quartet: Land Of Real Men

Ilmiliekki Quartet: Land Of Real Men

Verneri Pohjola | Antti Lötjönen | Tuomo Prättälä | Olavi Louhivuori

We Jazz Records

Rating: ★★★★

They're back! Older and wiser that's for sure, the Ilmiliekki Quartet was one of the great success stories of the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2019

Review of Zela Margossian Quintet: Transition

Zela Margossian Quintet: Transition

Elsen Price | Stuart Vandegraaf | Metin Yilmaz | Alexander Inman-Hislop | Zela Margossian | Adem Yilmaz

Art As Catharsis

Rating: ★★★★

Zela Margossi's peripatetic career took her from Lebanon to Armenia to Australia, where she is now establishing her career in...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2019

Review of Matt Mitchell: Phalanx Ambassadors

Matt Mitchell: Phalanx Ambassadors

Matt Mitchell | Kim Cass | Kate Gentile | Patricia Brennan | Miles Okazaki

Editor's Choice

Pi Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Mitchell's 2017 release, A Pouting Grimace, flexed its compositional muscle by way of a large ensemble conducted by Tyshawn Sorey;...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: August/2019

Review of Nick Weldon: Eleven Flames

Nick Weldon: Eleven Flames

Art Themen | Laura Jurd | Nikki Iles | Trevor Tomkins | Nick Weldon | Andra Sparks

Verge

Rating: ★★★

Weldon, hitherto known for his distinctive piano work, has morphed into a bassist and a fine one at that. His...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2019

Review of Sam Newsome: Chaos Theory: Song Cycles For Prepared Soprano Saxophone

Sam Newsome: Chaos Theory: Song Cycles For Prepared Soprano Saxophone

Sam Newsome

New Music (CD)

Rating: ★★★★

As an unerring devotee of the soprano saxophone Sam Newsome draws inevitable comparisons to Steve Lacy. He has a thorough...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2019

Review of Oscar Peterson: Nostalgic Memories

Oscar Peterson: Nostalgic Memories

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★

Compiled from duo/trio sessions from 1951-54, this originally appeared as a Clef LP, but this adds more same period work,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2019

Review of Don Cherry/Ed Blackwell: El Corazon

Don Cherry/Ed Blackwell: El Corazon

Ed Blackwell | Don Cherry

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

Star performers in Ornette Coleman's legendary bands, Cherry and Blackwell further developed their chemistry on this wonderfully eclectic session that...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2019

Review of Espen Berg Trio: Free To Play

Espen Berg Trio: Free To Play

Odin

Rating: ★★★

The Trondheim-based rising star pianist comes up trumps with a stimulating, individualistic blend of Mehldau-informed counterpoint, Tigran-ish folk tune filigree,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2019

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