Reviews

Review of Joel Harrison: Anthem Of Unity

Joel Harrison: Anthem Of Unity

Jack DeJohnette | Gary Versace | Gregory Tardy | Joel Harrison

High Note Records

Rating: ★★★

Guitarist, Guggenheim fellow, film composer, educator, producer, multi-award winner and founder and director of the Alternative Guitar Summit - Joel...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: October/2023

Review of Eddie Henderson: Witness to History

Eddie Henderson: Witness to History

Gerald Cannon | Mike Clark | George Cables | Eddie Henderson | Lenny White | Donald Harrison

Smoke Sessions Records

Rating: ★★★★

In his eight decades and more on this earth, trumpeter Eddie Henderson has – as the title to his new...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2023

Review of Helge Lien Trio/Tore Brunborg: Funeral Dance

Helge Lien Trio/Tore Brunborg: Funeral Dance

Helge Lien | Tore Brunborg | Johannes Eick | Knut Aalefjær

Ozella

Rating: ★★★★

Helge Lien is a very talented pianist, with the potential to be even better. Tore Brunborg is a very talented...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2023

Review of Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns

Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns

Ståle Storløkken | Hedvig Mollestad | Ole Mofjell

Rune Grammofon

Rating: ★★★★

Mollestad has always had to barrel hoop her energies to bring form to her eruptive powers. Her trio is hyper-rehearsed...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2023

Review of Ivan Lins: My Heart Speaks

Ivan Lins: My Heart Speaks

Randy Brecker | Tibilisi Symphony Orchestra | Leo Amuedo | Josh Nelson | Twanda | Carltos Del Puerto | Jane Monheit | Ivan Lins | Mauriico Zottarelli | Dianne Reeves

Editor's Choice

Resonance

Rating: ★★★★

The album title, My Heart Speaks, is taken from the Lins composition, ‘The Heart Speaks,’ and was recorded on an...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2023

Review of Landgren/Wollny/Danielsson/Haffner: 4 Wheel Drive II

Landgren/Wollny/Danielsson/Haffner: 4 Wheel Drive II

Michael Wollny | Wolfgang Haffner | Lars Danielsson | Nils Landgren

ACT

Rating: ★★★

So-called jazz ‘supergroups’ usually come with a ‘wow’ factor by way of the pedigree of the personnel involved. Collectively though,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2023

Review of Matthew Halsall: An Ever Changing View

Matthew Halsall: An Ever Changing View

Alan Taylor | Gavin Barras | Sam Bell | Maddie Herbert | Chris Davies | Matt Cliffe | Jasper Green | Caitlin Lang | Liviu Gheorghe | Jack McCarthy

Editor's Choice

Gondwana

Rating: ★★★★

Matthew Halsall’s ninth album’s title suggests, among other things, how his music incrementally morphs around a kernel of spiritual jazz,...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: October/2023

Review of Mama Terra: The Summoned

Mama Terra: The Summoned

Michael Owers | Cameron Jay | Marco Cafolla | Derek Nievergelt | Iain Edgar | Jeremy Pelt | Rachel Lightbody | Konrad Wisniewski | Evan Pazner

Acid Jazz

Rating: ★★★

Part funded by Creative Scotland, the rhythm tracks on this were laid down by Glaswegian pianist Marco Cafolla during lockdown;...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2023

Review of Jerome Sabbagh: Vintage

Jerome Sabbagh: Vintage

Johnathan Blake | Kenny Barron | Joe Martin | Jerome Sabbagh

Sunnyside

Rating: ★★★

Jerome Sabbagh is a fluent saxophonist with an airy tone and a breezy cool-school aesthetic. Born in Paris in 1973,...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2023

Review of Mal Waldron: Mal/2

Mal Waldron: Mal/2

Mal Waldron | Bill Hardman | John Coltrane | Art Taylor | Ed Thigpen | Julian Euell | Jackie McLean | Sahib Shihab | Idrees Sulieman

Original Jazz Classics/Craft Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

By 1957 Mal Waldron had become resident piano player and composer for the Prestige label and here, for his second...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: October/2023

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