Reviews
Vijay Iyer Trio: Compassion
Vijay Iyer | Linda May Han Oh | Tyshawn Sorey
Vijay Iyer’s latest trio made its studio debut, Uneasy in 2021, and played an outstanding gig at the London jazz...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2024
John Surman: Words Unspoken
John Surman | Rob Luft | Thomas Strønen | Rob Waring
Words Unspoken is a natural heir to Surman’s Invisible Threads. As the titles suggest, this is music about the spaces...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2024
Adam Schroeder/Mark Masters: CT!
This particular CT scan celebrates material created by the great trumpeter and teacher Clark Terry, and was conceived in 2020...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2024
Geri Allen, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian: In the Year of the Dragon
Paul Motian | Juan Lazaro Mendolas | Geri Allenn | Charlie Haden
In the days when the Arts Council were a much more active component of the UK jazz scene, they mounted...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2024
Ray Guntrip & Tina May: Mood in Blue
Veteran pianist-composer Guntrip has evidently been a busy figure on the UK scene for many years, sometimes uniting with jazz...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2024
Rosie Frater-Taylor: Featherweight
Rosie Frater-Taylor | Dave Edwards | Tim Potter | Rob Mullarkey | Lewis Moody
If the self-released Bloom was Frater-Taylor’s ‘coming of age’ album, then Featherweight is a realisation that, even at 24, life...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2024
Harry James: The Complete Harry James in Hi-Fi
When Capitol asked Harry James to re-record the most popular items in his back catalogue in 1955, it was ‘to...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2024
Inger Marie: Five Minutes
Characterised by a palpable sense of restraint and a search for a song's inner kernel, Five Minutes sees vocalist Inger...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2024
Ron Horton: A Prayer for Andrew
John O Gallagher | Dean Johnson | Tim Honer | Frank Kimborough | Ron Horton | Marty Ehrlich
The devious rhythms, angular lines and tense emotions that mark the late pianist/composer Andrew Hill’s music are embedded in New...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2024
Nikos Chatzitsakos: Tiny Big Band 2
Chatzitsakos is a Greek bassist with a deep and abiding love of American jazz. He left Berklee as a summa...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: March/2024
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