Review of Renato D'Aiello: Satori, The Angel

Renato D'Aiello: Satori, The Angel

Bruno Montrone | Deelee Dube | Gaspar Bertoncelj | Greg Riddell | Jamie Campbell | Jeff Otto | Meghan Cassidy | Michael Demarco | Nicola Murescu | Renato D'Aiello

33 Jazz

Rating: ★★

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

Review of Cecil Taylor: Complete Live At The Café Montmartre

Cecil Taylor: Complete Live At The Café Montmartre

Cecil Taylor | Jimmy Lyons | Kurt Lindstrom | Sunny Murray

Solar

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Gil Evans: Svengali

Gil Evans: Svengali

Billy Harper | Bruce Ditmas | Dave Sanborn | David Horowitz | Gil Evans | Hannibal Marvin Peterson | Herb Bushler | Howard Johnson | Joseph Daley | Peter Levin

Atlantic

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Julian Joseph: Live At The Vortex in London

Julian Joseph: Live At The Vortex in London

Joseph

ASC

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Tim Ries: Life Changes

Tim Ries: Life Changes

Bill Frisell | Gonzalo Grau | Gregoire Maret | Jack DeJohnette | James Genus | Jasia Ries | Larry Goldings | Mauro Refosco | Scott Colley | Stacey Shames

Ropeadope

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Ruby Rushton: Ironside

Ruby Rushton: Ironside

Aidan Shepherd | Ed Cawthorne | Nick Walters | Tim Carnegie

22a Records (CD/LP)

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Joey DeFrancesco: More Music

Joey DeFrancesco: More Music

Joey DeFrancesco | Lucas Brown | Michael Ode

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Trio Riot

Trio Riot

David Meier | Mette Rasmussen | Sam Andreae

Efpi

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Album Interview: Christian McBride Trio: Out Here

Album Interview: Christian McBride Trio: Out Here

Christian McBride | Christian Sands | Ulysses Owen, Jr

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Abdullah Ibrahim: African Piano

Abdullah Ibrahim: African Piano

Abdullah Ibrahim

ECM

Rating: ★★★

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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