Zimpel/Ziołek

Dominika Korzeniecka | Jaśmina Polak | Wacław Zimpel | Jakub Ziołek

Polish composer and clarinet-player Wacław Zimpel has been turning distant rumours into palpable rumbles with his recent run of meditative...

Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Freddie Hubbard Quintet: At Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall

Frank Tusa | Badal Roy | Richie Beirach | Jeff Williams | Dave Liebman

Freddie Hubbard was already the undisputed heavyweight champion of jazz trumpet when he played the delightfully named Hamburg jazz club...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Ella Fitzgerald: Live At The Concertgebouw 1961

Ella Fitzgerald | Herb Ellis | Gus Johnson | Lou Levy | Wilfred Middlebrooks

Following on from releases by Sarah Vaughan, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and Dave Brubeck, Live At The Concertgebouw continues Fondamenta’s...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Sam Newsome and Jean Michel-Pilc: Magic Circle

The soprano sax specialist Sam Newsome brings his imaginative use of extended technique into play with the much admired French...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Thelonious Monk: The Centennial Edition: Paris 1954

Jean-Marie Ingrand | Thelonious Monk | Gerard Dave Pochonet | Jean-Louis Viale

We’ve known forever that Monk’s first foreign trip was to the 1954 Paris Jazz Fair, and that his initial unaccompanied...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Vincent Herring: Hard Times

Nicolas Bearde | Cyrus Chestnut | Carl Allen | Vincent Herring | Dan Dillon | Yasushi Nakamura | Russell Malone | Brad Nathan | Steve Turre

Vincent Herring is probably the nearest we have to a Cannonball Adderley on today’s jazz scene and we generally find...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Johnny Butler: Hyperviolet

Phil Rodriguez | Bram Kincheloe | Bridget Davis | Michael Feinberg | JJ Byards | Kassa Overall | Johnny Butler | Jeff Miles

New York multi-reedist-producer Butler takes the multi-guest vocalist option on a set with more minus than plus points. First and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Monica Vasconcelos: The Sao Paulo Tapes

Captivating a Vortex full house with October’s album launch, London-based Brazilian singer Vasconcelos’ Robert Wyatt-produced homage to Sao Paulo resistance...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

Sonny Stitt: The Latin Sides

Two 1963 albums (Primitivo Soul and Stitt Goes Latin) originally out on Prestige and Roost show Stitt’s typically assertive sound,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018

George Lewis: Assemblage

The AACM veteran composed these suspenseful contemporary avant-garde compositions between 2012 and 2014 and they’re effectively mediated by Chicago’s Ensemble...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018