Ken Peplowski: Maybe September
Ken Peplowski | Martin Wind | Matt Wilson | Ted Rosenthal
Peplowski has found a distinctive way to play on both his instruments. His clarinet, extensively featured on this scintillating new...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2013
Phil Woods: Rights of Swing
The title suggests that Phil Woods’ first extended composition, a five-movement jazz suite, might owe something to Stravinsky’s Rite of...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2023
Osian Roberts: Bop Viveur
Jeremy Brown | Matt Fishwick | Osian Roberts | Rob Barron
By naming their jointly-founded label as they did, Roberts and the Fishwick brothers made clear their creative intentions and haven’t...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2024
Kenny Wheeler Big Band: The Long Waiting
It doesn't seem that long a wait, but this collection of original material is a most welcome companion to the...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2012
JC Hopkins Biggish Band: Meet Me At Minton's
Grammy-nominated composer and producer, pianist and ex-folk singer Hopkins, a Californian who moved over to New York in 2000, has...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2017
Grover Washington Jnr: The Defnitive Collection
Bob James | Eric Gale | Gary King | Grover Washington Jnr | Ralph McDonald | Richard Tee
The late Philadelphian may have spawned countless inane imitators who micro-waved the tailend of his career in the mid-1990s, which...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2017
Bill Evans Trio: Explorations
Bill Evans | Paul Motian | Scott Lafaro | Scott LaFaro | Teddy Kotick
Following up the expanded publicdomain reissue of Portrait In Jazz on their Poll Winners label (see Jazzwise 151), EJC have...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2012
Alfredo Rodriguez: The Invasion Parade
The son of a popular Cuban TV personality, former child prodigy Rodriguez had a strong classical training background (Bach, Beethoven,...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: May/2014
Eric Binder Trio: Hard Bop
An album called Hard Bop, led by a drummer sounds like a cue for a Jazz Messengers tribute act. In...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2020
Eliane Elias: Mirror Mirror
Chick Corea | Chucho Valdés | Eliane Elias
Asked to name some of the great jazz piano duo albums and you might think of An Evening with Herbie...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2021
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