Reviews
Jon Balke: Discourses
Known for his enduring work with the singular Magnetic North Orchestra and Batagraph or earlier as a member of the...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition: Album Album
Howard Johnson | Rufus Reid | David Murray | John Purcell | Jack DeJohnette
When Jack DeJohnette produced and recorded Album Album at New York's Power Station in June 1984, he created a classic....
Reviewed in issue June/2020
John Scofield: Swallow Tales
John Scofield | Steve Swallow | Bill Stewart
John Scofield met Steve Swallow at Berklee half a century ago, in a student-teacher connection that became a playing partnership...
Reviewed in issue June/2020
Jean-Louis Matinier/Kevin Seddiki: Rivages
Kevin Seddiki | Jean-Louis Matinier
Space, texture and balance are three crucial components in the output of the duo formed by accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier and...
Reviewed in issue June/2020
Jan Garbarek/The Hilliard Ensemble: Remember Me, My Dear
Jan Garbarek | Gordon Jones | Rogers Covey-Crump | Steven Harrold | David James
This concert from the farewell tour of the Garbarek/Hilliard collaboration differs from the three previous albums, Officium (1993), Mnemosyne (1998),...
Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Arild Andersen: The Triangle
John Marshall | Vassilis Tsabropoulos | Arild Andersen
Arild Andersen's two albums with the Greek concert pianist, conductor and composer Vassilis Tsabropoulos – Achirana (2000) and The Triangle...
Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Art Lande/Jan Garbarek: Red Lanta
Greeted with faint praise in the Penguin Guide and Grove, and omitted completely in several other reference books, Lande is...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Edward Vesala: Lumi
Critical opinion is strongly divided on this ECM disc from 1987. The Penguin Guide to Jazz gave it a ‘Crown’...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Enrico Rava/Joe Lovano: Roma
Giovanni Guidi | Joe Lovano | Dezron Douglas | Enrico Rava | Gerald Cleaver
Enrico Rava, the 80-year-old Italian trumpet star whose expeditions include Miles-infused post-bop, free-jazz with Steve Lacy, and a few personal...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Gary Burton: The New Quartet
Gary Burton | Harry Blazer | Abraham Laboriel | Michael Goodrick
This ECM Touchstone reissue from 1973 documents perhaps the least known of Burton's famous quartets, the first of which, with...
Reviewed in issue October/2019
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