Reviews

Review of Miguel Zenón/Luis Perdomo: El Arte Del Bolero Vol 2

Miguel Zenón/Luis Perdomo: El Arte Del Bolero Vol 2

Luis Perdomo | Miguel Zenón

Miel Music

Rating: ★★★

The Puerto Rican saxophonist Miguel Zenón and Venezuelan pianist Luis Perdomo – a playing partner from student days – made...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2023

Review of Tania Giannouli: Solo

Tania Giannouli: Solo

Tania Giannouli

Editor's Choice

Rattle Records

Rating: ★★★★

“Alone onstage, one is compelled to be truthful, not to hold anything back or fake anything, to allow yourself to...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2023

Review of Hays Street Hart: Bridges

Hays Street Hart: Bridges

Ben Street | Billy Hart | Kevin Hays

Smoke Sessions Records

Rating: ★★★★

The trio’s 2021 album All The Things You Are was live-streamed from the empty Smoke Jazz Club in New York...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2023

Review of Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express: Complete Oblivion

Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express: Complete Oblivion

Mirza al Sharif | Brian Auger | Jim Mullen | Robbie McIntosh | Godfrey MacLean | Steve Ferrone | Clive Chaman | Barry Dean | Jack Mills | Lennox Laington

Soul Bank

Rating: ★★★★

Even in his 80s, Auger still has the energy to light up a chunk of LA which has been his...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2023

Review of Hiromi & Hiromi’s Sonicwonder: Sonicwonderland

Hiromi & Hiromi’s Sonicwonder: Sonicwonderland

Hiromi | Adam O’Farrill | Gene Coye | Hadrien Feraud | Oli Rockberger

Concord

Rating: ★★★

As Herbie Hancock showed on ‘Chameleon’, a synth can create deep, in the pocket grooves on the simplest of riffs....

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2023

Review of Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra: Family

Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra: Family

Gard Nilssen | André Roligheten | Guro Kvåle | Goran Kajfes | Ole Morten Vågan | Ingebrigt Håker Flaten | Thomas Johansson | Eirik Hegdal | Per ‘Texas’ Johansson | Petter Eldh

We Jazz Records

Rating: ★★★

The prolific Norwegian drummer-composer Gard Nilssen’s 17-piece orchestra boasts a scary line-up, a distinguished international cast of Scandinavian contemporary jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2023

Review of Pete Atkin: The Luck of the Draw – The Clive James-Pete Atkin Songbook Volume 2

Pete Atkin: The Luck of the Draw – The Clive James-Pete Atkin Songbook Volume 2

Rod Youngs | Alec Dankworth | Nigel Price | Simon Wallace | Gary Hammond | Pete Atkin | Dave O’Higgins

Hillside

Rating: ★★★

Although long aware of 78-year-old singer-songwriter Atkin’s association with the late Clive James, I hadn’t ever heard Atkin perform before...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2023

Review of Nimbus Sextet: Live In Lotusland

Nimbus Sextet: Live In Lotusland

Danny Cortez | Joel Ector | Nate Morgan | Jesse Sharps | Derek Roberts | Rickey Kelly

Nimbus West/Pure Pleasure

Rating: ★★★

Founded by producer Tom Albach primarily to release the music of the legendary Horace Tapscott, Nimbus West became an iconic...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2023

Review of Joshua Redman: where are we

Joshua Redman: where are we

Peter Bernstein | Joe Sanders | Brian Blade | Nicholas Payton | Aaron Parks | Joel Ross | Gabrielle Cavassa | Joshua Joshua Redman | Kurt Rosenwinkel

Editor's Choice

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★★

The world-class jazz saxophonist-composer Joshua Redman’s debut for the Blue Note label also turns out to be his first ever...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2023

Review of Sinikka Langeland: Wind and Sun

Sinikka Langeland: Wind and Sun

Thomas Strønen | Trygve Seim | Mathias Eick | Mats Eilertsen | Sinikka Langeland

ECM

Rating: ★★★

For her seventh album on the ECM label, the Norwegian instrumentalist and singer Sinikka Langeland teams up with Jon Fosse.Fosse,...

Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: November/2023

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