Perelman/Maneri/Roberts/Rothenberg: Strings 2

Ivo Perelman | Mat Maneri | Hank Roberts | Ned Rothenberg

Tenor saxophonist Perelman’s commitment to composing spontaneously and expanding his range of collaborators usually has a specific premise. These two...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2019

Dave Douglas Quintet: Brazen Heart Live at Jazz Standard

Matt Mitchell | Linda May Han Oh | Rudy Royston | Jon Irabagon | Dave Douglas

Douglas has been here before of course, releasing a sequence of live recordings from the Jazz Standard with his band...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2019

Bix Beiderbecke: The Bix Beiderbecke Legend

Bing Crosby | Bix Beiderbecke | Eddie Lang | Bud Freeman | Chauncey Morehouse | Jimmy Dorsey | Gene Krupa | Joe Venuti | Roy Bargy | Bill Challis

When George Avakian and Charles Edward Smith originally brought out this anthology of Beiderbecke’s work on LP in 1961, it...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2019

Ingrid Jensen/Steve Treseler: Invisible Sounds: For Kenny Wheeler

Katie Jacobson | Steve Treseler | Jon Wilken | Geoffrey Keezer | Martin Wind | Christine Jensen | Ingrid Jensen

As Ingrid Jensen notes, there are established jazz styles like swing and bebop, and then there are the originals who...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2019

Bill Evans/Jim Hall: Undercurrent: The Stereo & Mono Versions

Percy Heath | Freddie Hubbard | Bill Evans | Jim Hall | Zoot Sims | Ron Carter | Philly Joe Jones

The original six-track duo album, Undercurrent, ranked high among the output of both partners. Its pervading pensive ballad mood was...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2019

Curtis Fuller: Four Classic Albums

The collective personnel above mask a series of Fuller’s ‘name’ albums made, respectively and in sequence, for Blue Note (The...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2020

Baldo Martinez: Cuarteto Europa

Galician composer/bassist Martinez’ international quartet echoes the work of Henri Texier with its folky rootsiness, free jazz and classical mixture....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2019

Ralph Alessi: Imaginary Friends

Mark Ferber | Ralph Alessi | Ravi Coltrane | Drew Gress | Andy Milne

Ralph Alessi, the New York trumpeter whose improvisations glimmer with understated surprises, has made two earlier ECM recordings (2013’s Baida...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2019

Florian Weber: Lucent Waters

Ralph Alessi | Nasheet Waits | Linda May Han Oh | Florian Weber

Florian Weber, the 41-year-old German pianist/composer, has had some inspirational teachers since he swapped jazz for his childhood classical training...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2019

Perelman/Maneri/Feldman/Hwang: Strings 1

Ivo Perelman | Jason Hwang | Mat Maneri | Mark Feldman

Tenor saxophonist Perelman’s commitment to composing spontaneously and expanding his range of collaborators usually has a specific premise. These two...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2019