Paul Bley: Play Blue-Live in Oslo

Paul Bley

Bley's gentle subversion of established jazz practice in the mid-1960s on albums such as Closer on the ESP label appeared...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2014

Mick Foster: Live at The Vortex

Mick Foster

Like many baritone players, Foster seems able to fit into any number of different situations. I've seen him with the...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2020

Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci & Brian Blade: Children of the Light

Brian Blade | Danilo Pérez | John Patitucci | Sachi Patitucci

Pérez, Patitucci and Blade came together as Wayne Shorter's rhythm section in 2000. Children of the Light is the first...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2015

Gary Burton Quartet: Duster/Country Roads & Other Places

Gary Burton | Jerry Hahn | Larry Coryell | Roy Haynes

Several labels have chimed-in during recent times with reissues of Burton's precocious work as a teenager when contracted to RCA...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2014

Zoot Sims: Zoot Sims Quartet

Bobby Whitlock | Bud Powell | Henri Renaud | Jean-Louis Viale | Kenny Clarke | Pierre Michelot | Zoot Sims

It's a given that Zoot Sims is on top of his game during these two performance taped at the famed...

Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: April/2013

Gilad Hekselman: Far Star

Alon Benjamini | Amir Bresler | Eric Harland | Gilad Hekselman | Nathan Shram | Nomok | Oren Hardy | Shai Maestro | Ziv Ravitz

Considering the astonishing fluency of his improvising, pure tone, Pat Metheny-inflected composing muse and partnerships with a raft of New...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2022

Steve Plews/Ed Jones: Derelict

Ed Jones | Steve Plews

Saxophonist Ed Jones' tough tenor sound has been a solid presence on the UK gig circuit since the acid jazz...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2014

Ahmad Jamal: Macanudo

Ahmad Jamal | Art Davis | Chuck Lampkin | Israel Crosby | Jamil Nasser | Richard Evans | Vernel Fournier

You might think the Jazzwise office is testing my resistance to Jamal, just like when they sent Roy Carr one...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2014

Oddgeir Berg Trio: In The End Of The Night

The second album by this Norwegian acoustic/electric trio injects elements from classical music, singer-songwriter rock and post-EST piano jazz into...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2019

Pierrick Pedron: Cheerleaders

This Brittany-based saxophonist’s arrangements for brass, choir and his quintet have a raw quality about them and are an odd...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2011