Review of Sinne Eeg: Don't Be So Blue

Sinne Eeg: Don't Be So Blue

Red Dot Music

Rating: ★★★

Fine sounding Danish singer-songwriter in a mainstream post-Joni mould, on her fifth album backed by acoustic piano trio....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2012

Review of Luis Perdomo: Spirits and Warriors

Luis Perdomo: Spirits and Warriors

Alex Sipiagin | Billy Hart | Luis Perdomo | Mark Shim | Ugonna Okegwo

Criss Cross Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

It's a sad state of affairs that when Perdomo tours Europe with his own trio he is unable to get...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: August/2016

Review of Lee Konitz: Standards Live

Lee Konitz: Standards Live

Florian Weber | Jeff Denson | Lee Konitz | Ziv Ravitz

Enja

Rating: ★★★

Lee Konitz presents a well-scrubbed image on the cover picture here, so clean-shaven and tidy that it's hard to imagine...

Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2014

Review of Jim Snidero: Strings

Jim Snidero: Strings

Billy Drummond | Cenovia Cummings | David Fink | Jim Snidero | Joyce Hamman | Kenji Bunch | Mark Feldman | Mary Wooten | Paul Gill | Paul Woodiel

Savant SCD 2199

Rating: ★★★★

Strings was first issued on Milestone (MCD 9326 2) two decades ago. Its reappearance now is welcome in that it...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2022

Review of Get The Blessing: OC DC

Get The Blessing: OC DC

Adrian Utley | Clive Deamer | Jake McMurchie | Jim Barr | Pete Judge | Robert Wyatt

Naim

Rating: ★★★★

As our soggy little island slips slowly from its mooring off the coast of northern Europe to float off to...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2012

Review of Rajeev Taranath: Swar-Kalyan

Rajeev Taranath: Swar-Kalyan

Abhiman Kausal | Rajeev Taranath

Navras

Rating: ★★★★

Rajeev Taranath is a senior disciple of the school or style of playing to which the sarodist Ali Akbar Khan...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: July/2012

Review of Dhafer Youssef: Sounds of Mirrors

Dhafer Youssef: Sounds of Mirrors

Dhafer Youssef | Eivind Aarset | Husnu Senlendirici | Zakir Hussain

Anteprima Productions

Rating: ★★★★

Tunisian oud player and singer Dhafer Youssef is a gift to jazz, a musician and composer whose intense ambition and...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: Feb/2019

Review of Coleman Hawkins: Alive! At The Village Gate

Coleman Hawkins: Alive! At The Village Gate

American Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

Originally two Verve albums by Hawk's 1960s quartet with Tommy Flanagan, this couples them, includes guest spots by Eldridge and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2014

Review of Simon Oslender: About Time

Simon Oslender: About Time

Bill Evans | Bruno Müller | Christopher Dell | Claus Fischer | Cosmo Klein | Hanno Busch | Hendrick Smock | Klaus Genuit | Peter Fessler | Randy Brecker

Leopard

Rating: ★★★

This is the debut disc as leader from Simon Oslender. At just 21 years of age, the rising German jazz...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2020

Review of Lars Danielsson: Libretto III

Lars Danielsson: Libretto III

Arve Henriksen | Björn Bohlin | Grégory Privat | Hussam Aliwat | John Parricelli | Lars Danielsson | Magnus Öström

ACT

Rating: ★★★★

One of the unfolding joys of the ACT label in recent times is the unfailingly poised and eloquent chamber jazz...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2017

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