Reviews
Don Ellis: How Time Passes
Charlie Persip | Don Ellis | Ron Carter | Jaki Byard
This is Ellis’ debut album under his own name, having achieved modest recognition as an instrumentalist and composer at the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Nils Petter Molvær: Certainty of Tides
The Norwegian Radio Orchestra | Nils Petter Molvaer
It’s a given that Nils Petter Molvær (or NPM) is recognised as a serial collaborator, but there’s nothing in the...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Christian Sands: Christmas Stories
Given pianist Sands’ profile these days, it seemed sensible to set aside one’s usual indifference to the American record industry’s...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Count Basie: In Concert
This is a typical programme on one of Basie’s many European tours of the period and, while there have been...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Various Artists: Soho Scene ’57: Jazz Goes Mod
In the latest of these valuable compilations, the focus is on the contrasting UK and US modern jazz scenes as...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Trio Grande: Urban Myth
Gilad Hekselman | Will Vinson | Nate Wood
Trio Grande’s second release continues to explore the interface between fluent jazz improvisation and the grainier textures of contemporary rock...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Jeremy Udden: Wishing Flower
Ziv Ravitz | Jorge Roeder | Ben Monder | Jeremy Udden
Rare instrument alert! On his new album, Jeremy Udden gives a leading role to the Lyricon, an early 1970s electronic...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2023
John Scofield: Uncle John’s Band
John Scofield | Bill Stewart | Vincente Archer
This double CD set is the ECM debut of the latest version of John Scofield’s trio, with Vincente Archer in...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2023
Marius Neset/London Sinfonietta: Geyser - Live at Royal Albert Hall
Ivo Neame | Jim Hart | Geoffrey Paterson | Marius Neset | Anton Eger | Conor Chaplin
Geoffrey Paterson, the classical conductor steering this 2022 live recording of a Proms concert for Norwegian reeds star Marius Neset's...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2023
Veronica Swift
Veronica Swift’s professional destiny was never in much doubt: daughter of jazz singer Stephanie Nakasian, who toured with Jon Hendricks,...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: November/2023
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