Reviews
Fats Waller: All the Hits and More 1922-1943
If you’ve never had access to a collection of Fats Waller’s work, both as a solo pianist and as the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2024
Ambrose Akinmusire: Owl Song
Bill Frisell | Ambrose Akinmusire | Herlin Herlin
Ambrose Akinmusire’s first four studio albums were musically restless, deploying hip-hop textures, sometimes jagged classical strings and rapped passages which...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2024
Alex Riel: Alex Riel in New York
In the 1950s, Denmark was home to a small scale but highly creative jazz scene and talented local musicians such...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2024
Lage Lund: Most Peculiar
Matt Brewer | Tyshawn Sorey | Sullivan Fortner | Lage Lund
Lage Lund’s latest release reunites the guitarist with the band he formed in 2014. Lund, resident in the US since...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: February/2024
The Oscar Peterson Trio: Con Alma – Live in Lugano, 1964
Ed Thigpen | Ray Brown | Oscar Peterson
Much is made in the Peterson literature about the special togetherness or tightness of this brilliant trio which endured from...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2024
The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Live From The Northwest, 1959
Paul Desmond | Joe Morello | Dave Brubeck | Eugene Wright
This is a significant snapshot of the Dave Brubeck Quartet, in excellent fidelity, that numbers among Brubeck’s finest live albums...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2024
Liam Noble & Geoff Simkins: Lucky Teeth
This encounter between pianist Liam Noble and alto saxophonist Geoff Simkins positively pings with intelligence and enthusiasm as the duo...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2024
The Harper Trio: Passing By
Evan Jenkins | Josephine Davies | Maria Christina Harper
The jazz harp has enjoyed a surprising renaissance in recent years: we can look to New Yorker Brandee Younger, and...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: February/2024
Cykada: Metamorphosis
Opening with an apocalyptic, rackety hum, the sophomore album by noted leftfield Londoners Cykada is a trance-like affair in which...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: February/2024
Benjamin Koppel: White Buses: Passage To Freedom
An A-list international ensemble led by British saxophonist Benjamin Koppel broaches a timely historic subject: the white buses that carried...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2024
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