Reviews
Burnt Belief: Mutual Isolation
Vinny Sabatino | Andi Pupato | Aleksei Saks | Colin Edwin | Jon Durant
As with many current releases, Edwin and Durant weren’t able to come together to record, but instead shared files. To...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Steve Coleman & Five Elements: Live At Village Vanguard Vol. 2 (Mdw Ntr)
Jonathan Finlayson | Sean Rickman | Kokayi | Anthony Tidd | Steve Coleman
New York’s Village Vanguard could not have been a more adequate venue for Steve Coleman & Five Elements to celebrate...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022
James Brandon Lewis quartet: Code Of Being
Chad Taylor | Aruan Ortiz | Brad Jones | James Brandon Lewis
Having made a fine album with his Red Lily quintet in 2021, Jesup’s Wagon, tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis returns...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Irreversible Entanglements: Open The Gates
Camae Ayewa | Tcheser Holmes | Keir Neuringer | Aquiles Navarro | Luke Stewart
The Philadelphia, New York and Washington DC-based quintet’s third studio recording is their first double album – and finds them...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Various Artists: Bebop: Pioneers and Classic Performances 1941-49
We are regularly reminded that bebop was a stylistic revolution in jazz but also that, from the viewpoint of later...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2021/2022
The Elliott Henshaw Band: Who’d Have Guest?
‘Being heavily influenced by the likes of Dave Grusin, The Yellowjackets, Al Jarreau and David Sanborn,’ in-demand drummer and percussionist...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Pasquale Grasso: Pasquale Plays Duke
Keith Balla | Pasquale Grasso | Ari Roland | Sheila Jordan | Samara Joy
Reviewing Grasso’s last release, a solo guitar album dedicated to Bud Powell, and showing artistic interaction between subject and performer...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Vels Trio: Celestial Greens
Jack Stephenson Oliver | Dougal Taylor | Cameron Dawson
This long-awaited debut album sees the Brighton-to-London young guns finally follow up on their 2017 Yellow Ochre EP. The intervening...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Secret Sessions: Hoop
Paul Booth likes to set a challenge: the Secret Sessions are based on the precept that no-one knows who they...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Chet Baker: The Making of Chet Baker Sings
It was only in July 2018 that Jazzwise reviewed the same label’s William Claxton Collection of Chet Baker albums, their...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/January/2021/2022
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