Bill O'Connell: Heart Beat

The ex-keyboardist-arranger for the likes of legendary Cuban Conguero Mongo Santamaria fronts a consummate latin jazz all-star big band featuring...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Bill Laurance: Live At Union Chapel

Michael League | Vera Van Der Bie | Bill Laurance | Robert ‘Sput’ Searight | Katie Christie | Annie Tangberg | Isabella Petersen | Felix Higginbottom

When keyboardist and pianist Laurance spoke to Jazzwise at the start of this year he confessed it had taken a...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Joyce Moreno: Cool

Tutty Moreno | Helio Alves | Rodolfo Stroeter | Joyce Moreno

A new album by Moreno is always a cause for rejoicing – oh, and for marvelling at the fact that,...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Ahleuchatistas: Arrebato

This North Carolina math-rock duo did enough to inspire John Zorn to record them for his Tzadik label in 2008,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra: Time/Life (Song for the Whales and Other Things)

Curtis Fowlkes | Loren Stillman | Carla Bley | Vincent Chancey | Joseph Daley | Steve Cardenas | Tony Malaby | Michael Rodriguez | Chris Cheek | Charlie Haden

The Liberation Music Orchestra make a welcome reappearance on record. Two tracks – ‘Blue in Green’ and ‘Song for the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Camilla George Quartet: Isang

Daniel Casimir | Femi Koleoso | Sarah Tandy | Camilla George

British audiences will have noted George in a variety of settings, from the horn section of Jazz Jamaica to Nerija...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Rob Barron: What's In Store…

Colin Oxley | Rob Barron | Joshua Morrison | Jeremy Brown

Barron, a busy presence on the local scene, has chosen well for both the pieces to play and the musicians...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Katharina Ernst/Martin Siewert – Also: Live at Wirr

Katharina Ernst | Martin Siewert

The sound of Vienna's avant-garde. Ernst is a drummer and artist, who has worked with everyone from Ken Vandermark to...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Herb Alpert: Human Nature

You couldn't mistake the Tijuana trumpeter Herb Alpert for Miles Davis but Alpert is reborn here as a post-Miles jazztronic...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017

I Am Three: Mingus Mingus Mingus

Titled after Mingus' declaration at the beginning of his autobiography, this is a raw, blustery tribute to the great jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017