Reviews
Miles Okazaki: Miniature America
Guitarist Okazaki is well established on the NYC jazz scene, but this sequence of 22 vignettes reveals his command of...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: August/2024
Sebastien Ammann: Change of Course
Sebastien Ammann | Ralph Alessi | Eric McPherson | Caroline Davis | John Hébert
The pianist-composer Sebastien Ammann, since arriving in New York in 2008 from his native Switzerland, has assembled a few high-profile...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2024
Jihye Lee Orchestra: Infinite Connections
The South Korean former pop singer and Berklee-graduated big-band composer Jihye Lee confirmed how eloquently she could balance fast-moving postbop...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2024
Fingers: The Complete Fingers Remember Mingus
Dave Green | Michael Garrick | Alan Jackson | Bruce Turner | Lol Coxhill
One of the delights of recovering jazz recordings from the archives is hearing studio chatter among the musicians, busy sound...
Reviewed by Chris Welch in issue: August/2024
The Jazzanians: We Have Waited Too Long
This is an important album that slots into the continuing evolution of South African jazz. Dating back to the 1980s,...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2024
Stephan Crump: Slow Water
Patricia Brennan | Yuniya Edi Kwon | Jacob Garchik | Stephan Crump | Joanna Mattrey | Kenny Warren
Memphis-raised, Brooklyn-based Crump was the Vijay Iyer Trio’s bassist for 20 years, branching out into deeper explorations of his instrument’s...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: August/2024
Emaginario: Interlude Of The Duende
Eric Harland | Ethan Margolis | Larry Grenadier
Guitarist Ethan Margolis is an unusual artist in that he reversed the usual flow of jazz traffic by deserting his...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: August/2024
Kenny Barron: Beyond this Place
Johnathan Blake | Kenny Barron | Immanuel Wilkins | Steve Nelson | Kiyoshi Kitagawa
From the late 1950s, when he was a teenager barely out of high school, Kenny Barron was good enough to...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2024
William Parker & Ellen Christi: Cereal Music
William Parker | Ellen Christi
William Parker is rightly regarded as one of the pre-eminent bass players of our age but, on these two new...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2024
Rendell/Carr Quintet: BBC Jazz Club April 1965
Ian Carr | Dave Green | Trevor Tomkins | Michael Garrick | Don Rendell
The Rendell/Carr Quintet had already recorded Shades of Blue in October 1964, the band’s then pianist, Colin Purbrook, who would...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2024
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