Jowee Omicil: Love Matters!

Jowee Omicil

Haitian saxophonist Omicil has served notice of a substantial talent on previous releases such as Roots and Let’s Bash without...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2019

Mandhira De Saram/Benoît Delbecq: Spinneret

Benoit Delbecq | Mandhira De Saram

From Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms through to Elliott Carter, Iannis Xenakis and Morton Feldman, the repertoire for violin and piano...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: April/2019

Marilyn Mazur: Shamania

Ellen Andrea Wang | Hildegun Olseth | Sissel Vera Petterson | Lis Wassberg | Makiko Hirabayashi | Anna Lund | Josefine Cronholm | Lisbeth Diers | Marilyn Mazur | Lotte Anker

Mazur’s 10-piece band is an invigorating embodiment of the ideal of the transnational improvising ensemble, with its all female line-up...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2019

Louis Hayes/Junior Cook Quintet: At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall/Hamburg 1976

Junior Cook | Ronnie Matthews | Woody Shaw | Louis Hayes | Stafford James

Two months after their appearance at Hamburg’s Onkel Pö’s nightclub, this same line-up taped Ichi Ban for the Dutch Timeless...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2019

Django Reinhardt: Diminishing Blackness: The Compositions of Django Reinhardt

Percy Heath | Henri Crolla | Django Reinhardt | Joseph Reinhardt | Matelo Ferret | Jean Storn | Eugène Vées | Hubert Rostaing | Chet Atkins | Julian Bream

There have been numerous attempts to produce box sets that cover the range of Django Reinhardt’s work. Among examples reviewed...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2019

Jasper Blom Qua: Polyphony

Recorded last year in Amsterdam’s unique Bimhuis recital hall, this 2CD set is the Dutch tenor saxophonist-composer’s long-running quartet with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2019

Trio Heinz Herbert: Yes

Ramon Landolt | Mario Hänni | Dominic Landolt

Yes dangles between curlicues of intellectualised sound-making and instinct. It nods to Stockhausen’s disrespect of rhythmic repetition, and the trance...

Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: April/2019

Patchwork Jazz Orchestra: The Adventures of Mr Pottercakes

Sam Glaser | Adam Chatterton | Matthew Herd | Tom Green | James Davison | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Alex Hitchcock | Rob Luft | James Copus | Liam Dunachie

This 17-piece big-band collective is inevitably unwieldy, and quixotically impractical. But in letting its members write large-scale compositions, otherwise unlikely...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2019

Kirk Knuffke: Witness

This Colorado-born cornetist’s chamber-jazz quartet features a classical baritone vocalist, Steven Herring, and does a decent job of bringing cohesion...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2019

Frank Morgan & George Cables: Montreal Memories

Frank Morgan | George Cables

Frank Morgan’s discography opens in 1953 with a Prestige date for Teddy Charles. Two years later, hailed as the new...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2019