Reviews
Trio HLK: Anthropometricks
Varijashree Venugopal | Evelyn Glennie | Ant Law | Natalie Clein | Rich Harrold | Rich Kass
Anthropometricks applies the same process that Trio HLK employed on their debut Standard Time. Shards of standards are slivered from...
Reviewed in issue April/2024
Doncaster Jazz Alumni: 50 Years
Consider this remarkable double-CD as a kind of festschrift (or a sort of ‘commemorative document’ as the dictionary has it)...
Reviewed in issue April/2024
QOW Trio: The Hold Up
Spike Wells | Eddie Myer | Riley Stone-Lonergan
Spike Wells came to jazz on the 1960s bandstand with Bobby Wellins and Tubby Hayes, Eddie Myer out of autodidactic...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
Jon Lloyd Quartet: Earth Songs
Jon Lloyd | John Law p) | Alex Goodyear | Nick Pini
Commenting on this new release, Ubuntu’s Martin Hummel says he was only recently introduced to Lloyd’s music. Me, too. Hummel...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
Karim Saber: Transmission
Alex Wilson | Karim Saber | Jack Thomas | John Jones | Matt Cook
It was Phronesis founder Jasper Høiby who first brought rising guitarist and composer Karim Saber to the attention of Ubuntu...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
Rob Cope: Gemini
Andy Scott | Paul Clarvis | Liam Noble | Rob Cope
Cope curates The Jazz Podcast and many of the values exhibited therein shine on this debut: generous dialogue, good humour,...
Reviewed in issue February/2024
Matt Ridley: The Antidote: Live At The London Jazz Festival
Alex Hitchcock | Ant Law | Matt Ridley | Marc Michel | Tom Hewson
Matt Ridley is a classicist and romantic, steeped in jazz tradition with a taste for beauty. It’s led to regular...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Paul Mottram: Seven Ages of Man for Jazz Sextet and String Orchestra
Large-scale compositional projects in the UK have been thin on the ground since the 1960s and 1970s, when Mike Westbrook,...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
Shear Brass: Celebrating Sir George Shearing
Sir George was drummer Carl Gorham’s great-uncle, and vocalist Sipek is Gorham’s daughter, so this celebration is something of a...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
Mark Lewandowski: A Bouquet For Lady Day
Liam Noble | Mark Lewandowski | Heidi Vogel
Tributes to Billie Holliday are not in short supply: the woman christened Eleanora Fagan has become subsumed into an iconic...
Reviewed in issue August/2023
Follow us
Jazzwise Digital Club
- Latest digital issues
- Digital archive since 1997
- Download tracks from bonus compilation albums during the year
- Reviews Database access
From £7.78 / month
Subscribe
Jazzwise Full Club
- Latest print and digital issues
- Digital archive since 1997
- Free bonus CDs
- Download tracks from bonus compilation albums throughout the year
- Reviews Database access
From £9.53 / month
Subscribe
Jazzwise Reviews Database
- Reviews Database access
- Discover 10,000+ reviews
From £6.75 / month
Subscribe
Jazzwise Digital
- Latest digital issues
- Digital archive since 1997
- Download tracks from bonus compilation albums throughout the year