Gwilym Simcock: Near and Now
This follow-up to Simcock's Mercury Prize-shortlisted 2011 ACT debut, the brilliant Good Days At Schloss Elmau, was penned primarily on...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2019
Horace Silver: 14 Février 1959
Blue Mitchell | Gene Taylor | Horace Silver | Junior Cook | Louis Hayes
Coming hard on the heels of the Zurich studio session shared with Sonny Rollins and reviewed in Jazzwise 210, this...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
Tina May Paris Quintet: No More Hanky Panky
Hot on the heels of Tina May’s outstanding Piaf album comes this long-awaited follow-up to the Tina May Paris Quintet’s...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012
Bobby Timmons Trio: The Sweetest Sounds
Timmons was of the generation, born in the 1930s, who emulated the bad habits of some beboppers, but what did...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2017
Wendy Kirkland.//Quartet: Piano Divas
A British singer with an easy-going Anglicised vocal take on material that refreshingly avoids jazz barroom stylisation, in a tribute...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017
Shalosh: Broken Balance
David Michaeli | Gadi Stern | Mattan Assayag
This Tel Aviv piano trio have found their natural home on EST's label, ACT, as they regularly power up rock...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: December/2020
William Parker Quartets: Meditation/Resurrection
Cooper-Moore (p) | Hamid Drake | Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson | Rob Brown | William Parker
Although there is considerable overlap in personnel between the two groups that feature on this double CD there is a...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2017
Claudio Filippini: Overflying
There have been few more startling debuts by a young pianist than Filippini's Love Is The Thing… And The Blues...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2017
The Casimir Connection: Cause And Effect
Diane McLoughlin | Kit Massey | Paweł Grudzień | Tim Fairhall
I do like a good liner note, one that genuinely carries you into the music, and leader/composer/multi-instrumentalist Diane McLoughlin does...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2019
Arild Andersen/Paolo Vinaccia/Tommy Smith: In-House Science
Arild Andersen | Paolo Vinaccia | Tommy Smith
If ever there was an ensemble whose essence is captured in live performance, then it is Andersen's trio with Tommy...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2018
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