John Horler & Jimmy Hastings: Point Of Intersection

Jimmy Hastings | John Horler

Scots-born multi-instrumentalist Hastings’ versatility has allowed him to figure in everything from ship’s bands to big-name orchestras, from pop and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2019

Paolo Fresu/Richard Galliano/Jan Lundgren: Mare Nostrum III

Jan Lundgren | Paolo Fresu | Richard Galliano

Mare Nostrum (literally, ‘Our Sea’) is the latin for the Mediterranean. It’s also the name of a powerful European supercomputer...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2019

Alvin Curran: Endangered Species

Alvin Curran

Too many musicians treat ‘Great American Songbook’ standards with a deadening reverence that is noticeably at odds with the mischief,...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: March/2019

Paal Nilssen-Love: New Brazilian Funk

Felipe Zenicola | Paal Nilssen-Love | Paulinho Bicolor | Frode Gjerstad | Kiko Dinucci

When Denmark’s Roskilde festival commissioned drummer Paal Nilssen-Love to curate two special projects for the event he responded by forming...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: March/2019

Twin Talk: Weave

A very likeable Chicagoan trio featuring bassist-singer Katie Ernst, who has worked previously with Jason Moran, delivering a stripped-down and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2019

Barry Guy/Ramón Lopez: Sidereus Nuncius - The Starry Messenger

Barry Guy | Ramón Lopez

One of the great elder statesmen of European improvised music, Guy has done some of his best work in orchestral...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2019

Ziggy Elman: Boppin’ With Zig

Despite the title (from a 1949 single) there’s no bebop here, just Elman’s personal brand of decisive swing trumpet, imposing...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Feb/2019

Nat Gonella: Nat Gonella Collection 1930-1962

Another of Acrobat’s exemplary 4CD career surveys, this one tracks Nat from Roy Fox and Billy Cotton via various iterations...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Feb/2019

Digby Fairweather & Stan Barker: The Defi nitive Duets Vol 2

Stan Barker | Digby Fairweather

We reviewed Vol 1 in Jazzwise 205 (March 2016) and noted then with approval the lively creativity of both the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Feb/2019

Wayne Horvitz: The Snowghost Sessions

Wayne Horvitz | Geof Harper | Eric Eagle

Like his former playing partner and fellow concept-bender John Zorn, the Seattle-based player/composer Wayne Horvitz has walked a creative line...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2019