Pierrick Pédron: Fifty-Fifty New York Sessions
Larry Grenadier | Marcus Gilmore | Pierrick Pédron | Sullivan Fortner
Jazz saxophone styles have mutated in unimagined ways since Charlie Parker's day, but the best negotiators of bebop's harmonic mazes...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2021
Album Interview: Brad Mehldau Trio: Seymour Reads The Constitution!
Brad Mehldau | Jeff Ballard | Larry Grenadier
Brad Mehldau's teasing talent for setting a mood of fascinating expectation and then unhurriedly revealing its multiple implications has been...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2018
Stefano Bollani: Sheik Yer Zappa
Jason Adasiewicz | Jim Black | Josh Roseman | Larry Grenadier | Stefano Bollani
With a stellar band and the whole Zappa universe to choose from, expectations for this project come high. Bollani himself...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2015
Lage Lund: Terrible Animals
Lage Lund | Larry Grenadier | Sullivan Fortner | Tyshawn Sorey
Lund's credentials are gold plated: Juillard, Berklee and a Fulbright scholarship seem to point inevitably toward jazz's glittering prizes. Yet...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2019
Fly: Year of the Snake
Jeff Ballard | Larry Grenadier | Mark Turner
This is Fly's second album for ECM, and displays pleasing signs of artistic growth, displayed most obviously in ensemble cohesion...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2012
Wolfgang Muthspiel: Rising Grace
Ambrose Akinmusire | Brad Mehldau | Brian Blade | Larry Grenadier | Wolfgang Muthspiel
Line-ups don't come much more star-studded than this one, but it remains a fact that such endeavours in jazz often...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
Brad Mehldau Trio: Where Do You Start
Brad Mehldau | Jeff Ballard | Larry Grenadier
As the Keith Jarrett of his generation, the acme of jazz piano for Generation X-ers just as the savant from...
Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: October/2012
New Zion Trio: Fight Against Babylon
Craig Santiago | Jamie Saft | Larry Grenadier
Keyboardist Jamie Saft's closest associations have been with drummer Bobby Previte as a long-term sideman and John Zorn, a kinship...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012
Joey Alexander: Countdown
Chris Potter | Dan Chmielinski | Joey Alexander | Larry Grenadier | Ulysses Owens Jr Owens Jr
The jazz piano wünderkind Joey Alexander is a protégé of Wynton Marsalis and has been feted by Herbie Hancock. On...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2016
John Scofield: Past Present
Bill Stewart | Joe Lovano | John Scofield | Larry Grenadier
Art born from tragedy doesn't always cut it, no matter how sympathetic we may be to the artist's pain. Yet...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016
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