Reviews

Review of Clare Daly: VuVu For Frances

Clare Daly: VuVu For Frances

Jon Davis | Clare Daly | George Garzone | Dave Hofstra | David F Gibson

Daly Bread Records

Rating: ★★★★

Now 65, Clare Daly, a Berklee graduate and educator, has made quite a name for herself on her native New...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2023

Review of Dorothy Ashby: With Strings Attached

Dorothy Ashby: With Strings Attached

Quentin Jackson | Roy Haynes | Ed Thigpen | Eddie Jones | Jimmy Cobb | Jimmy Cleveland | Richard Davis | Dorothy Ashby | John Tooley | Wendell Marshall

New Land Records

Rating: ★★★★★

Although she didn’t ‘invent’ the jazz harp – that distinction probably belongs to Casper Reardon (1907-41) or Adele Girard (1913–1993)...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2023

Review of Joel Goodman: An Exquisite Moment

Joel Goodman: An Exquisite Moment

Donny McCaslin | Scott Tibbs | Marcus Rojas | Scott Colley | Randy Brecker | Eric Harland | Kat Robertson | Lisa Fischer | Adam Rogers | John Patitucci

A64 Records

Rating: ★★★

Joel Goodman may not be familiar name in the jazz press, but the cast list of this album, his debut...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: August/2023

Review of Émile Parisien/Roberto Negro: Les Métanuits

Émile Parisien/Roberto Negro: Les Métanuits

Émile Parisien | Roberto Negro

ACT

Rating: ★★★

Émile Parisien, now 40 years of age, has assembled an impressive discography on ACT that can be calibrated on a...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2023

Review of Old and New Dreams

Old and New Dreams

Charlie Haden | Ed Blackwell | Don Cherry | Dewey Redman

ECM Luminessence

Rating: ★★★★

These two releases, both examples of exceptional music-making, represent the second batch of ECM’s new Luminescence vinyl reissue programme, casting...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2023

Review of Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra: Open Spaces (Folk Songs Reimagined)

Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra: Open Spaces (Folk Songs Reimagined)

Dan Weiss | Ben Kono | Andrew Porrier | Jeremy Berkman | Ben Henriques | Daniel Hersog | Noah Preminger | Frank Carlberg | Kurt Rosenwinkel | Kim Cass

Cellar Music

Rating: ★★★★

This is an unusual project by Hersog, a Canadian trumpeter, composer and arranger who is also that rarity, the leader...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: August/2023

Review of Mark Lewandowski: A Bouquet For Lady Day

Mark Lewandowski: A Bouquet For Lady Day

Liam Noble | Mark Lewandowski | Heidi Vogel

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

Tributes to Billie Holliday are not in short supply: the woman christened Eleanora Fagan has become subsumed into an iconic...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: August/2023

Review of Avishai Cohen: Sensitive Hours/Shaot Regishot

Avishai Cohen: Sensitive Hours/Shaot Regishot

Titzak Simcha | Ora Cohen | Lars Nilsson | Mark Guiliana | Shai Maestro | Steve Davis | Tai Isenberg | Gil Luis | Lenny Ben Bassat | Alberto Pinto

Razdaz

Rating: ★★★★

Avishai Cohen’s singing voice might not have anywhere near the kind of masterful technique we would attribute to his bass...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2023

Review of Brad Mehldau: Largo

Brad Mehldau: Largo

Brad Mehldau | William Frank ‘Bill’ Reichenbach Jr | Thomas Pasatieri | Jorge Rossy | Emilie A Bernstein | Victor Indrizzo | Gary Gray | Matt Chamberlain | Justin Meldal-Johnsen | David Shostac

Editor's Choice

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

Brad Mehldau’s eclecticism is now something of a given – recent releases such as Jacob’s Ladder and Finding Gabriel have...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: August/2023

Review of David Hazeltine Trio: Blues for Gerry

David Hazeltine Trio: Blues for Gerry

Joe Farnsworth | Peter Washington | David Hazeltine

Criss Cross Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

Hazeltine, born 1958 in Milwaukee and a New Yorker by adoption long since, crops up often on albums by his...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2023

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