Reviews
Zaid Nasser: The Stroller
Zaid Nasser | Keith Balla | Ari Roland | Pasquale Grasso
Now in his forties, Zaid Nasser is the son of Jamil Nasser, bassist on over a dozen albums by Ahmad...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2017
Bengt Berger/Beches Brew: Beches Indian Brew
Bengt ‘Beches’ Berger, a Swedish jazz drummer, moved to India to study Indian classical music in the 1960s and to...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2017
Roberto Ottaviano QuakTet: Sideralis
Gerry Hemingway | Michael Formanek | Alexander Hawkins | Roberto Ottaviano
Italian saxophonist Roberto Ottaviano's Sideralis opens by conspicuously upending jazz convention. The rhythmic underlay provided by piano, bass and drums...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: November/2017
Henry Kaiser: Friends & Heroes: Guitar Duets
Here's a collection to savour, even if guitars aren't your thing, or indeed spontaneous improvisation leaves you feeling, well, challenged....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2017
Dieter Ilg: B-A-C-H
Dieter Ilg | Patrice Heral | Rainer Böhm
Any jazz piano trio that chooses to take on the repertoire of Johann Sebastian Bach must surely know that ultimately...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2017
Mark Soskin: Hearts And Minds
Jay Anderson | Mark Soskin | Anthony Pinciotti
It's been a couple of decades since Soskin was the long-standing keyboardist for Sonny Rollins but his credits, which extend...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2017
John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension: Live @ Ronnie Scott's
Etienne M'Bappe | Ranjit Barot | Gary Husband | John McLaughlin
Not that we'd ever unnecessarily blow our own trumpet, so to speak, but it's worth mentioning that the CD sleeve...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2017
McLaughlin/Surman/Berger/Martin/Holland: Where Fortune Smiles
Dave Holland | Karl Berger | Stu Martin | John Surman | John McLaughlin
When Fortune Smiles has been reissued previously with the emphasis on McLaughlin, not surprisingly as he appears the stellar object...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2017
Christian Wolff & Eddie Prévost: Uncertain Outcomes
Eddie Prévost | Christian Wolff
Christian Wolff, now 83, is the last surviving member of the New York School, a loose coalition of composers that...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: November/2017
Harold Mabern: To Love and Be Loved
Jimmy Cobb | Eric Alexander | Nat Reeves | Freddie Hendrix | Cyro Baptista | Harold Mabern
Mabern really is a remarkable talent. At 81, he's still playing with the passion of a man at least half...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2017
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