Reviews
Oscar Peterson Quartet: City Lights – Live in Munich, 1994
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen | Lorne Lofsky | Oscar Peterson | Martin Drew
This latest collaboration between Mack Avenue and Two Lions producer Kelly Peterson, OP’s widow, follows closely on from Con Alma...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Album Interview: The Bad Plus: Complex Emotions
Chris Speed | Reid Anderson | Ben Monder | Dave King
The closest forerunner to the newest incarnation of the iconoclastic The Bad Plus –founder members Reid Anderson and Dave King...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Christian Sands: Embracing Dawn
This album was conceived by Sands (who wrote all the material save for a somewhat abstract version of ‘Good Morning...
Reviewed in issue October/2024
Emmet Cohen: Vibe Provider
During lockdown, Emmet Cohen established one of the world's most regularly watched online jazz shows, with the encouragement of ‘vibe...
Reviewed in issue October/2024
Kenny Garrett & Svoy: Who Killed AI?
One of the significant exponents of the alto saxophone in the 1990s and 2000s, Kenny Garrett has long taken an...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
Doubling down on bass: Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer: But Who’s Going To Play The Melody?
Edgar Meyer | Chrstian McBride
Team up one of the world’s leading classical bassists with his counterpart from the jazz environment, and the results should...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
The Oscar Peterson Trio: Con Alma – Live in Lugano, 1964
Ed Thigpen | Ray Brown | Oscar Peterson
Much is made in the Peterson literature about the special togetherness or tightness of this brilliant trio which endured from...
Reviewed in issue February/2024
Joey Alexander: Continuance
John Davis | Theo Croker | Kris Funn | Joey Alexander
In 2014, when he was 10, the Indonesian piano prodigy Joey Alexander caught the ear of Wynton Marsalis, and the...
Reviewed in issue February/2024
Christian Sands: Christmas Stories
Given pianist Sands’ profile these days, it seemed sensible to set aside one’s usual indifference to the American record industry’s...
Reviewed in issue December/January/2023/2024
Veronica Swift
Veronica Swift’s professional destiny was never in much doubt: daughter of jazz singer Stephanie Nakasian, who toured with Jon Hendricks,...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
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