Tommy Alexander/Keith Williams: Alexander the Great/The Dazzling Sound

Two West Coast session bands from L.A., with a galaxy of studio stars, and some fi ne charts, among which...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2018

Gilad Hekselman: Ask For Chaos

Rick Rosato | Jonathan Pinson | Kush Abadey | Aaron Parks | Gilad Hekselman

Hekselman won the ‘Rising Star’ category in last year's annual DownBeat Critics Poll. With his sixth release, we get to...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2018

Jason Palmer: At Wally's Volume 2

Chris McCarthy | Max Light | Noah Preminger | Jason Palmer | Simon Willson | Lee Fish

Jason Palmer has been on the scene for quite a few years now. He seems to have everything a great...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2018

Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere: Theta Four

Yvonne Magda | Walt Shaw | Steve Dinsdale | Jan Todd | Martin Archer | Terry Todd

Sheffield-based multi-instrumentalist and Discus label boss, Martin Archer, maintains a dizzyingly prolific output covering a wide range of musical touchstones...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2018

Takeo Moriyama: East Plants

Takeo Moriyama | Shuichi Enomoto | Hideaki Mochizuki | Toshiko Inoue | Yohji Sadanari

The BBE Jazz Masterclass reissue series continues apace with another fine offering from Japan. Drummer Moriyama is not well known...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2018

Karou Abe/Sabu Toyozumi: Mannyoka

Sabu Toyozumi | Karou Abe

In the light of the recently discovered ‘lost’ recordings by such jazz legends as Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus and John...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: November/2018

Jay Lawrence: Sonic Paragon

Terell Stafford | Anthony Wilson | Harry Allen | Romero Lubambo | John Patitucci | Renee Rosnes | Jay Lawrence | Yotam Silberstein

I was tempted to begin playing this disc at track 11, a cover of Hendrix's ‘Crosstown Traffic’. I love Hendrix...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2018

David Kollar/Arve Henriksen: Illusion Of A Separate World

Slovakia and Norway join forces for an engaging session of contemporary space-prog and Nordic fjord-jazz on which the effects-laden guitarist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2018

John & Beverley Martyn: Stormbringer!

John Martyn | Paul Harris | Beverley Martyn | Harvey Brooks | Billy Mundi | Herbie Lovell | John Simon | Rocky Dzidzomu | Levon Holm

There is no need to justify Martyn's presence in Jazzwise; his collaborations with Danny Thompson and John Stevens on Live...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2018

Charles Mingus: Four Classic Albums (Second Set)

It's only a few months since two of these albums were reviewed on the Poll Winners label's The Clown +...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2020