Reviews
Phil Woods: Rights of Swing
The title suggests that Phil Woods’ first extended composition, a five-movement jazz suite, might owe something to Stravinsky’s Rite of...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2023
Caesar Frazier: Live at Jazzcup
Kresten Osgood | Jonas Kullhammar | Johannes Wamberg | Caesar Frazier
The African-American Hammond B3 specialist Frazier first earned his spurs working in bands led by Marvin Gaye and Lou Donaldson...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2023
Sam Eastmond: John Zorn’s Bagatelles Vol 16
This album is an enormous achievement in so many ways, not least in that Sam Eastmond is the first British...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: November/2023
Wynton Kelly plus Don Sleet: Four Classic Albums
Of the post-bop pianists born in the decade after Bud Powell (Kenny Drew, Barry Harris, Sonny Clark et al), Kelly...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2023
Espen Eriksen Trio with Andy Sheppard: As Good As It Gets
Espen Esberg | Andy Sheppard | Lars Tormod Jenset | Andreas Bye
It’s not often Aristotle gets a walk-on part in these pages, but this album is a classic case of the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2023
Almanaque: Nada Para O Carnaval
Matheus Nova | Luca Boscagin | Jansen Santana | Quentin Collins | Raphael Delfino | Camille Bertault
Both an elegy and a celebration of a life, Nada Para O Carnaval brims with the sort of good-time verve...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2023
ROLROLROL: Music
The game of Jenga balances drama and responsibility: one wrong move could end everything, but every right move makes each...
Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: November/2023
Christian Dillingham: Cascades
Christian Dillingham | Dave Miller | Greg Artry | Lenard Simpson
Bassist Christian Dillingham has a round sound, strong fingers and a score of sideman album credits ranging from modern jazz...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2023
Matt Ridley: The Antidote: Live At The London Jazz Festival
Alex Hitchcock | Ant Law | Matt Ridley | Marc Michel | Tom Hewson
Matt Ridley is a classicist and romantic, steeped in jazz tradition with a taste for beauty. It’s led to regular...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2023
Howl Quartet: Airglow
Matt Parkinson | Pete Komor | Harry Brunt | Dan Smith
Reading the Howl Quartet’s PR material, replete with phrases like “wild, expressive” and “outright untamed”, it is hard to correlate...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: November/2023
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