Reviews
Tigran Hamasyan: The Call Within
On his third trio album, the 33-year-old Armenian-born, LA-based pianist-composer Tigran Hamasyan intensifies the uniquely personal soundworld he developed on...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2020
Redman/Mehldau/McBride/Blade: RoundAgain
Christian McBride | Joshua Redman | Brian Blade | Brad Mehldau
What could be the first supergroup of the post-pandemic era is actually the reincarnation of Joshua Redman's original mid-1990s quartet....
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020
Sam Gendel: Satin Doll
Sam Gendel | Gabe Noel | Philippe Melanson
Like his friend and LA neighbour Louis Cole, Sam Gendel evinces bland bemusement at a charmed life in which chance...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2020
Brad Mehldau: Finding Gabriel
Finding Gabriel signals a radical departure from Mehldau's very recent recording projects, namely his stellar acoustic trio's Seymour Reads the...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2019
Album Interview: Brad Mehldau Trio: Seymour Reads The Constitution!
Jeff Ballard | Larry Grenadier | Brad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau's teasing talent for setting a mood of fascinating expectation and then unhurriedly revealing its multiple implications has been...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2018
Album Interview: Joshua Redman/Ron Miles/Scott Colley/Brian Blade: Still Dreaming
Ron Miles | Joshua Redman | Brian Blade | Scott Colley
To my great chagrin I missed the band's much-lauded performance at Gateshead last year, but this is one of Joshua...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2018
Brad Mehldau: After Bach
“As a professional organist, much of Bach's work took the form of improvisation, and during his lifetime it was the...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2018
Tigran Hamasyan: For Gyumri
Hamasyan, 31, is an Armenian pianist who has released eight albums, won a clutch of important awards and accolades from...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2018
Tigran Hamasyan: An Ancient Observer
The Armenian jazz pianist Tigran Hamasyan is a classic example of the globalisation/glocalisation trend in jazz today. As he showed...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2017
Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau
The first recorded fruits of this initially unexpected and seemingly improbable but by now well-established collaboration arrive over five years...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2017
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