Marek Napiorkowski: Up!

Krzysztof Herdzin | Clarence Penn | Marek Napiorkowski | Henryk Miskiewicz | Adam Pieroczyk | Robert Kubiszyn

As the credits make clear this is the meeting of a jazz band, a sextet led by Polish guitarist Napiorkowski,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2016

Album Interview: Steps Ahead with WDR Big Band Cologne: Steppin' Out

Olivier Peters | Rob Bruynen | Michael Abene | Karolina Strassmayer | Wim Both | Johan Hörlen | John Marshall | Jens Neufang | Paul Heller | Bill Evans

It's remarkable how well the music of Steps Ahead has stood the test of time. Tunes like ‘Oops’ and ‘Sara’s...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: September/2016

Grateful Dead: Red Rocks 7/8/78

One of the better years in the Dead's hectic touring schedule, this stellar performance from Red Rocks Amphitheatre mixes lengthy...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2016

Tim O'Dwyer: The Fold (Koln Project)

Carl Roseman | Carl Luwdwig Hubsch | Tim O'Dwyer | Saad Thamir | Bassem Hawar

This is a concept album with a double concept, so to speak. Musically, the guiding principle is counterpoint, and philosophically,...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2016

Defibrillator & Peter Brötzmann: Conversations About Not Eating Meat

Peter Brötzmann | Artur Smolyn | Oliver Steidle | Sebastian Smolyn

If Peter Brötzmann has been showing something of a lyrical sweet-tooth in recent times – such as in his duet...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2016

The Pete Hurt Jazz Orchestra: A New Start

Josephine Davies | Noel Langley | Nick Costley-White | Richard Henry | Kate Williams | Nick Mills | Mick Foster | Pete Hurt | Dave Powell | Henry Lowther

Hurt, long a notable presence on the metropolitan scene released a small big band album on Spotlite way back in...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2016

Phineas Newborn: Fabulous Phineas

One of the seminal albums that established Newborn as one of the great keyboard talents, this shows him at the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2016

Salvodelli Casarano Bardoscia: The Great Gig In The Sky

Maurizio Nobili | Marco Bardoscia | Boris Salvodelli | Raffaele Casarano | Dewa Budjana

Curiously, perhaps, Pink Floyd haven't spread their influence across the jazz world, although Sam Yahel's Jazz Side of the Moon...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2016

Jerome Richardson: Four Classic Albums

You come away from this set feeling that Richardson's legendary level of regard from his colleagues was well-earned, because whether...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020

Charles Mingus & The Jazz Workshop All Stars: Complete 1961-1962 Birdland Broadcasts

Doug Watkins | Ed Armour | Booker Ervin | Jimmy Knepper | Pepper Adams | Yusef Lateef | Henry Grimes | Charles McPherson | Charles Mingus | Don Butterfield

A straight reissue of the RLR label's collection of Mingus broadcasts (reviewed in Jazzwise 150). The variable sound of these...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2016