Renato D'Aiello: Satori, The Angel
Berklee-trained Italian tenorman D'Aiello has been a London fixture since 1999 and is noted for his warm, emotional style. Here...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2015
Cecil Taylor: Complete Live At The Café Montmartre
Cecil Taylor | Jimmy Lyons | Kurt Lindstrom | Sunny Murray
Such is the overwhelming idiosyncrasy of Taylor’s language it’s easy to overlook the fact that it was not created in...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2016
Gil Evans: Svengali
The anagrammatic title, credited to one Gerry Mulligan, signals an album originally seen as a follow-up to the Ampex album...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2014
Julian Joseph: Live At The Vortex in London
It's been a long while since Joseph has recorded under his own name, the nearest in living memory being his...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2012
Tim Ries: Life Changes
Ries is best known for his decades on sax and keys for the Stones from which two impressive recordings came,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2019
Ruby Rushton: Ironside
Aidan Shepherd | Ed Cawthorne | Nick Walters | Tim Carnegie
Better known as Tenderlonius, Ed Cawthorne reversed traditional steps to loving jazz, retracing the path of hip-hop and house records...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2019
Joey DeFrancesco: More Music
Joey DeFrancesco | Lucas Brown | Michael Ode
Joey DeFrancesco first emerged on to the scene as a ‘Hammond organ prodigy’ – he was invited to join Miles...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Trio Riot
David Meier | Mette Rasmussen | Sam Andreae
If ever a genre tag has been misused and abused over the last decade or so, it's ‘punk-jazz’. Often, it's...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2014
Album Interview: Christian McBride Trio: Out Here
Christian McBride | Christian Sands | Ulysses Owen, Jr
Although Christian McBride is a familiar figure within the piano trio context, he has never led a piano trio of...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2013
Abdullah Ibrahim: African Piano
Done on one of Ibrahim's return visits to Copenhagen's Montmartre, where the Dollar Brand Trio had been recorded for Fontana/Black...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2014
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