Bruce Harris: Beginnings

Jerry Weldon | Grant Stewart | Frank Basile | Clovis Nicolas | Pete Van Nostrand | Andy Farber | Bruce Harris | Michael Weiss | Dmitry Baevsky

While young Brit players go after the rock-edged and explore innovation, jazz of a swinging, relatively mainstream kind, often hard-bop...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: November/2017

Schnellertollermeier: Rights

David Meier | Andi Schnellmann | Manuel Troller

Schnell means ‘fast’, toll ‘amazing’ or ‘wild’, and meier, at a pinch, can mean ‘mayor’. This German-Swiss trio's punning on...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2017

Nate Wooley: Knknighgh

Nate Wooley | Brandon Lopez | Chris Pitsiokos | Dre Hocevar

This line-up of trumpet, alto saxophone, bass and drums clearly invokes the Ornette Coleman Quartet of the late 1950s/early 1960s:...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: November/2017

Harry South: The Songbook

Tubby Hayes | Phil Seamen | Joe Temperley | Harry Klein | Les Condon | Dick Morrissey | Harold Fisher | Jimmy Deuchar | Tony Coe | Ken Wray

For this writer, pianist Harry South was always the quiet one with the moustache and goatee beard. Coming onto the...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2017

Album Interview: Gilad Atzmon and the Orient House Ensemble: The Spirit of Trane

Gilad Atzmon | Yaron Stavi | Enzo Zirilli | Frank Harrison

Fifty years since his death, Coltrane's spirit lives on through the jazz works of many artists, not least Gilad Atzmon....

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2017

Hiromi and Edmar Castaneda: Live In Montreal

Hiromi Uehara | Edmar Castaneda

Hiromi and Castaneda are musical soul brother and sister: each has a ridiculous facility on their instrument, each has the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2017

Russell Malone: Time For The Dancers

Rick Germanson | Russell Malone | Luke Sellick | Willie Jones III

This is this quartet's second album for High Note and the band synergy is clear – it rolls along through...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: November/2017

Klaus Koenig Jazz Live Trio: Night Thoughts

Patrick Sommer | Andi Wettstein | Klaus Koenig

German pianist Klaus Koenig has had an interesting career, to say the least. His Jazz Live Trio began life in...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2017

John Coltrane: European Tour 1962

Jimmy Garrison | John Coltrane | McCoy Tyner | Elvin Jones

More live Coltrane – yawn! Sorry, that's sacrilege, I know. And, in any case, it turns out that it's not...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2017

Behn Gillece: Walk of Fire

This New York-based vibraphonist-composer took inspiration for his septet's instrumentation from Joe Henderson's 1966 Blue Note classic Mode for Joe...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2017