Reviews
Eric Alexander: Chicago Fire
Joe Farnsworth | Eric Alexander | Jeremy Pelt | John Webber | Harold Mabern
For more than two decades, Eric Alexander has been the go-to saxophonist for finely crafted modern-mainstream jazz. Based in New...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2014
Rich Perry: Nocturne
On his 21st release with the reliably straight ahead Danish label, the vibrant-toned harmonically imaginative, longtime Village Vanguard house saxophonist...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014
Algorhythmical: Impending Joy
Stu Brown | Ewen Maclean | Kevin Glasgow | Chris Greive | Martin Kersaw
Right, I am not going to begin this review by saying something patronising about the strength of the current Scottish...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2014
Kairos Ensemble: Rejoicing Blues
Not to be confused with the 4tet of the same name, this is another UK quartet drawing for their new...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014
Ivo Perelman Mat Maneri: Two Men Walking
Matthew Shipp | Ivo Perelman | Mat Maneri | Whit Dickey | William Parker | Michael Bisio
True to form, Perelman's latest work materialises in a batch of albums, rather than a single recording. The other continuity...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2014
Pieranunzi, Johnson, Baron: Play Morricone 1&2
Joey Baron | Marc Johnson | Enrico Pieranunzi
The Enrico Pieranunzi-Marc Johnson-Joey Baron piano trio's jazz explorations of the film scores of Ennio Morricone were so well received...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2014
Miles Davis: Manchester Concert
Most reissues on American Jazz Classics are of a famous album, with or without bonus tracks, whereas 1951-57 Studio Recordings...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2014
Loren Stillman + Bad Touch: Going Public
A New York-based alto saxophonist in the Konitz mould (a mentor of Stillman's) but from a more angular, emotionally drier...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014
Michelson Morley: Aether Drift
Will Harris | Jake McMurchie | Mark Whitlam
Get the Blessing saxophonist Jake McMurchie's jazz trio is named after a revolutionary 19th century scientific experiment that's something to...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2014
Shelly Manne: …And His Men Play the music of John Williams from the TV Series Checkmate
A reminder that John ‘Star Wars’ Williams was a fine jazz musician, this is his 1961 music for a long...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2014

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