Bill Evans/Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: Beauty & The Beast
Bill Evans | The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra
Ah, but who is ‘Beauty’, who the ‘Beast’? Originally written for another muscular sax man, Dave Liebman, who first performed...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2017
Jim Blomfield Trio: Wave Forms and Sea Changes
Jim Blomfield | Mark Whitlam | Roshan ‘Tosh’ Wijetunge
The pianist Jim Blomfield has been a fixture on the creative music scene in Bristol since 1991, and has also...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2013
Paul Motian: Tribute
Carlos Ward | Charlie Haden | Paul Metzke | Paul Motian | Sam Brown
A product of what I think was Manfred Eicher's second trip to New York for the purposes of recording, which...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2019
XPQ – Vasilis Xenopoulos/Nigel Price Quintet: Sidekicks
Dario Di Lecce | Nigel Price | Steve Brown | Vasilis Xenopoulos
The co-leaders work well together, their respective styles each the ideal match for the other. Price is a supple player,...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2018
Cal Tjader: Huracán
After spells with Dave Brubeck and George Shearing, vibraphonist, occasional drummer and bandleader Cal Tjader devoted himself to Latin and...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2024
Eyolf Dale: The Space Between Two Notes
Audun Kleive | Eyolf Dale | Miho Hazama | Norwegian Radio Orchestra | Per Zanussi
The title recalls the scene in The Simpsons where Lisa tells a supercilious jazz club punter, “Listen to the notes...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: December/2024
Simon Moullier: Countdown
Following on from last year's quintet debut Spirit Song comes a stripped-down vibes-bass-drum trio that further highlights the very impressive...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2021
Matthew Bourne: Isotach
Matthew Bourne's fourth solo album was recorded at home, looking out across storm-battered Yorkshire moors, during “a period when my...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2017
Roseanna Vitro: Listen Here
Arnett Cobb | Ben Riley | Buster Williams | Kenny Barron | Roseanna Vitro
Recorded in 1982 and originally released in October 1984, this reissue of Roseanna Vitro's fine debut album finds a singer...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2021
The Oakland Elementary School Arkestra: The Saga Of Padani
Chabot School Musicians | Montclair School Musicians | Thornhill School Musicians
Opening with the sound of a school bell, this collection of avant-jazz compositions performed by students from three different school...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: October/2018
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