Volker Kriegel: House-boat

The blurb says ‘funky fusion band floating through a gentle pop production’ but compared to Farrell it's chalk and cheese...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2015

Jim Rattigan/Thomas Gould/Liam Noble: Triplicity

Thomas Gould | Liam Noble | Jim Rattigan

It's not often you hear a jazz album where the French horn is the lead instrument. ‘Charming’ is the adjective...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2015

Kenny Wheeler: Songs For Quintet

Stan Sulzmann | John Parricelli | Martin France | Chris Laurence | Kenny Wheeler

To paraphase what a wiser man than I has written of Don Cherry, ‘Kenny Wheeler didn't make music for his...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2015

Jimmy Greene: Beautiful Life

Cyrus Chestnut | Christian McBride | Jonathan Dubose | Lewis Nash | Jimmy Greene | Isaiah Marquez-Greene | Renee Rosnes | Hartford Symphony Orchestra | Pat Metheny | Kenny Barron

Although personal tragedy has been the background to many an artistic statement, few could conceivably match the devastatingly cruel fate...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2015

The Hot Sardines

A veritable retro stab at an early small group jazz mix of hot New Orleans swing, jump jive, flapper jazz,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2015

Bill Evans: New Conversations

Bill Evans

Evans's third (and final) major encounter with overdubbed keyboards came a long time after 1963's Conversations With Myself and the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2015

King Crimson: Starless

John Wetton | Robert Fripp | Bill Bruford | David Cross

The joy of excess comes in this muvva of a box set: no less than 27 CDs, various replica memorabilia...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2015

AR Quartet

Artturi Rönkä | Eero Seppä | Sampo Kasurinrn | Jonatan Sarikoski

At the quirkily-titled inaugural We Jazz festival in Helsinki, the AR Quartet (formerly the Artturi Rönkä Quartet) won the We...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2015

Various Artists: Jazz In Polish Cinema: Out of the Underground 1958–1967

Krzysztof Komeda | Andrzej Trzaskowski

Even though the words ‘Jazzwise Magazine’ are printed alongside the names of other no doubt supportive organisations and institutions (Polish...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2015

Tubby Hayes: Without A Song Rare Live Recordings 1954-73

Tubby Hayes | The Jazz Couriers | Alex Welsh | Jimmy Skidmore | Jimmy Deuchar | Johnny Dankworth | Humphrey Lyttelton | Joe Harriott | The Commonwealth Jazz Orchestra | Hank Shaw

One ponders under whose bed these tapes have been gathering dust in an old shoebox? Back to reality. The five...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: February/2015