Sam Barnett Quintet: New York-London Quintet

Sam Barnett | Timur Pak | Zoe Pascal | Michele Montolli | Laurence Wilkins

I thought the young man cradling a sax on the CD sleeve looked young; almost young enough to be in...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2017

University of Toronto Jazz Orchestra: Sweet Ruby Suite

Connor Newton | Max Forster | Christopher Platt | Austin Jones | Conrad Gluch | Andrew Miller | Brad Eaton | Norma Winstone | Marie Goudy | Zachary Smith

The University of Toronto orchestra pays tribute here to one of Canada's most distinctive jazz exports, trumpeter-composer Kenny Wheeler, with...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2017

Carmen McRae: Carmen Sings Monk

Carmen's 1988 Novus album appears here in CD format with three bonus tracks that together show her performing Monk compositions...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2017

Woody Herman: The 3 Herds

Dave Tough | Urbie Green | Flip Phillips | Chubby Jackson | Cy Touff | Woody Herman | Billy Bauer | Shorty Rogers | Stan Getz | Serge Chaloff

Initially it seems odd, in the light of exhaustive reissues such as the Mosaic set of Herman's 1945-47 bands, to...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2017

Patto

Mike Patto | Bernie Holland | Ollie Halsall | John Halsey | Clive Griffiths

Patto of course were always more than ‘just’ Ollie Halsall's boggling guitar, but from a Jazzwise perspective, his original voice,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2017

Maynard Ferguson: Birdland Dream Band

Despite a small amount of distortion on the original 1956 recordings, this is one of Ferguson's finest bands, with exemplary...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2017

Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp: The Art Of Perelman-Shipp 1-7: Titan/Tarvos/Pandora/Hyperion/Rhea/Saturn/Dione

Andrew Cyrille | Matthew Shipp | Ivo Perelman | Whit Dickey | William Parker | Bobby Kapp

The Perelman-Shipp partnership is over two decades old but this batch of seven CDs reflects much more than the musical...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2017

Roger Garftt, Nikki Iles, John Williams Octet: In All My Holy Mountain

Nikki Iles | Tom Mark | Bob Sydor | John Williams | Pete Hurt | Trevor Tomkins | Karen Sharp | Dave Warren | Dick Pearce | Roger Garftt

The fusion of poetry with jazz has been like a furtive undertow in the music's development. The idea appears and...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2017

Arve Henriksen: Towards Language

Jan Bang | Eivind Aarset | Anna Maria Friman | Arve Henriksen | Erik Honoré

This is Henriksen's eighth album for Rune Grammofon, and on it he continues to develop and refine his approach to...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2017

Bill Evans: The Bill Evans Album

Marty Morell | Bill Evans | Eddie Gomez

This is the album that was newly released at the time of my Evans interview 45 years ago (see Jazzwise...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2017