Reviews
Charles Lloyd Quartet: Dream Weaver
Cecil McBee | Keith Jarrett | Charles Lloyd | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette
In 1967–1968 it was not Miles Davis that jazz audiences were flocking to see, but tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd whose...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Steve Turre: The Bones of Art
Here's a masterclass for trombonists everywhere. The album title means not only ‘we're artists of the trombone’, but is also...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Viktoria Tolstoy and Jacob Karlzon: A Moment Of Now
Jacob Karlzon | Viktoria Tolstoy
Swedish vocalist Viktoria Tolstoy celebrates 10 years as an ACT artist with this superb new duet album with pianist Jacob...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Mark Murphy: The Complete Decca Recordings
This brilliant Mark Murphy twofer couples Meet Mark Murphy and Let Yourself Go and marks the very beginning of the...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Jaki Byard: Hi-Fly + Here's Jaki
Roy Haynes | Ron Carter | Pete LaRoca | Jaki Byard
Fifty years ago exactly, when people had open-reel recorders instead of YouTube, these two albums were copied for me by...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2013
Frank Sinatra: Sinatra-Basie/Sinatra and Swinging Brass
Sinatra’s voice excels in the settings Neal Hefti created for him, both with Basie and an all-star LA big band,...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2013
Fred Hersch and Julian Lage: Free Flying
This album title is very attractive because flying is precisely what true jazz improvisers aim to do, using the momentum...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: November/2013
European Jazz Trio
Veteran German saxophonist Gerd Dudek, bassist Ali Haurand and Czech flautist Jiri Stivin stay closer to a raw, lyrical traditional...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013
John Escreet: Sabotage and Celebration
For John Escreet’s fifth recording since the impressively ambitious debut Consequences in 2008, the New York jazz scene’s hottest English...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013
Jacob Teichroew Quintet: Tableaux
A quiet debut by a young Brooklyn-based saxophonist who has something of Lee Konitz’s intimate sound and patiently developed phrasing,...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2013

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