Tom Syson Sextet: Green

Vittorio Mura | Jonathan Silk | Ben Lee | Tom Syson | Lauren Kinsella | David Ferris

For the most part jazz is urban music. It thrives amid the clamour and the crush of cities, where people...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: August/2017

Duke Pearson: Four Classic Albums

Originally a trumpet player, but when Duke Pearson recorded his debut album for Blue Note, it was as a seasoned...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2020

Gaudi: Magnetic

Gaudi is a producer-cum-analogue synth freak, and his often dub-infused reworking of sounds from the RareNoise catalogue is interesting in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2017

Bill Frisell/Thomas Morgan: Small Town

Bill Frisell | Thomas Morgan

Following the epic thunder of his run out with Cuong Vu, Small Town finds Frisell, that most serial of collaborators,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2017

Duke Ellington/John Coltrane: Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

Doug Watkins | Mal Waldron | Donald Byrd | Paul Quinichette | Frank Wess | Aaron Bell/Jimmy Garrison | Paul Chambers | Jamil Nasser | John Coltrane | Duke Ellington

I already reviewed this exact compilation of the famous Impulse! title-album and four bonus items, back in Jazzwise 174 when...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2017

Joe Pass Quartet & Septet: Walking Up

Dave Allan | Greg Dykes | Bill Crawford | Joe Pass | Ronald Clark | Candy Latson | Larry Bunker | Albert Stinson | Les McCann | Arnold Ross

Joe Pass made it sound as though the hard labour he put in as a child learning the guitar at...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2017

Andy Fusco: Joy-Riding

Andy Fusco | Joel Weiskopf | Walt Weiskopf | Mike Karn | Jason Tiemann

You'd never know it, but altoist Andy Fusco is 69-years-old. He joined the Buddy Rich Big Band back in 1978....

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: August/2017

Lee Konitz: In Europe '56

This was a fertile period for Konitz – newly released tracks from Paris join four German sessions to show him...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2017

Gene Shaw: Quintet and Sextet: Break Through/Debut in Blues

You might know this trumpeter as Clarence Shaw from Mingus's Tijuana Moods, but after five years out of the limelight...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2017

Hayden Prosser: Tether

Hayden Prosser | Elias Stemeseder | Philipp Gropper | Max Santner

Tether as in ‘the end of one's’ or as in a rope that anchors a moving object to a fixed...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2017