John Hart: Euphoria
Jim Ridl | John Hart | Martin Wind | Tim Horner
Yet another New York familiar, Hart has a substantial discography much of it linked to the late organist Brother Jack...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2022
Joachim Kühn And The HR Big Band: Out of the Desert, Live at JazzFest Berlin
HR Big Band | Joachm Kuhn | Majid Bekkas | Ramon Lopez
In 2007 Kühn's collaboration with Moroccan oud player Majid Bekkas and the Spanish percussionist Ramon Lopez produced the critically acclaimed...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012
Christian Wolff & Eddie Prévost: Uncertain Outcomes
Christian Wolff | Eddie Prévost
Christian Wolff, now 83, is the last surviving member of the New York School, a loose coalition of composers that...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: November/2017
Matt Carmichael: Where Will the River Flow
From the get-go it's hard not to be charmed by Matt Carmichael's breathy melodicism. Unabashedly steeped in his Scottish heritage,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2021
Zhenya Strigalev/Frederico Dannemann: The Change
Federico Dannemann | Lucques Curtis | Obed Calvaire | Zhenya Strigalev
For well over a decade saxophonist Zhenya Strigalev was a get-up-and-go participator on the contemporary London jazz scene, a character...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
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
Chico Freeman: Tradition In Transition
Billy Hart | Chico Freeman | Clyde Criner | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | Wallace Roney
If Eletktra/Musician was one of the key jazz labels of the 1980s, then this is one of the great jewels...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2014
Steve Smith and Vital Information NYC Edition: Heart of the City
Andy Fusco | Baron Browne | George Brooks | Mark Soskin | Steve Smith | Vinny Valentino
The NYC version of Vital Transformation is an altogether more swinging, even boppish incarnation than the fusion feel often associated...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2018
Indigo Kid II: Fist Full of Notes
Dan Messore | Iain Ballamy | Martin France | Tim Harries | Trish Clowes
The young London-based guitarist-composer Dan Messore is nothing if not omnivorous. He's a member of Get the Blessing saxophonist Jake...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2015
Tessa Souter: Picture In Black And White
As you might expect from a protégé of the late, great Mark Murphy, the London-born, New York-based vocalist Tessa Souter...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Feb/2019
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