Various Artists: Babylon Berlin

Severija | Brian Ferry | Christina Russo | The Absolute Ensemble | Moka Efti Orchestra | Kristjan Randalu | Guitar Crusher aka Sidney Selby Selby | Alexander Hacke | Larry Mullins | Alf Klimek

Babylon Berlin is a screen adaptation of Volker Kutscher's detective novels. Set primarily in Berlin in 1929, they depict the...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: April/2018

Shinya Fukumori Trio: For 2 Akis

Walter Lang | Matthieu Bordenave | Shinya Fukumori

Music can involve extreme compression: a swift succession of ideas expressed across a tight bandwidth only, leaving no space to...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2018

The Basie-ites: How High The Moon

A Basie 10-piece with Barry Harris, and a sextet with Jimmy Jones on piano are on show here with the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2018

John McCowen: Solo Contra

The young Illinois resident, leftfield contrabass clarinet player John McCowen accentuates the instrument's unusual harmonics with dark-hued, sustained noise-toned textures...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2018

Lucky Thompson And His Octet: In Paris 1960/Modern Jazz At Club Saint-Germain & The Blue Note

Thelma Thompson | Buddy Powell | Alice McLeod | Lenny Johnson | Martial Solal | William Boucaya | Jimmy Gourley | Kenny Clarke | Pierre Michelot | Christian Bellest

Lucky Thompson was just one of many tenor players that included Don Byas, Ben Webster, Johnny Griffin and Dexter Gordon...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2018

Zoot Money's Big Roll Band: Big Time Operator

Colin Allen | Nick Newell | Paul Williams | Andy Summers | Zoot Money | Clive Burrows

A thunderous kitchen-sink-and-all drum workout was once seen as a means of getting audiences to their feet cheering and whooping...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2018

Art Pepper: Smack Up

Harold Land | Jimmy Bond | Chet Baker | Art Pepper | Paul Moer | Frank Butler | Pete Jolly | Herb Geller | Buddy Clark | Jack Sheldon

No matter how turbulent was his private life, when it came to recording Art Pepper invariably measured up to the...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2018

Various Artists: Oscar, With Love

Oliver Jones | Benny Green | Audrey Morris | Michel Legrand | Ramsey Lewis | Monty Alexander | Justin Kauflin | Dave Young | Gerald Clayton | Lance Anderson

This impressive array of pianistic talent was selected by Oscar Peterson's widow Kelly to create a kind of musical festschrift,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2018

Andreas Varady: The Quest

Ondrej Bandi | Benito Gonzalez | Adrian Varady | Radovan Tariska | Andreas Varady

Andreas Varady made his breakthrough at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2012, when Quincy Jones signed him to his management...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2018

Helge Lien/Knut Hem: Hummingbird

Helge Lien | Knut Hem

Ooh, could that be an original Weissenborn Knut's caressing…? Our average reader (not that Jazzwise has ‘average’ readers, every reader...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2018