Reviews

Review of Paul Mottram: Seven Ages of Man for Jazz Sextet and String Orchestra

Paul Mottram: Seven Ages of Man for Jazz Sextet and String Orchestra

Paul Clarvis | Tim Garland | Ralph Salmins | Jonny Mansfield | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Jason Rebello | Paul Mottram

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Shear Brass: Celebrating Sir George Shearing

Shear Brass: Celebrating Sir George Shearing

Jason McDermid | Alec Dankworth | Carl Gorham | Satin Singh | Sarah Moule | James Pearson | Romy Sipek | Arnie Somogyi | Pete Long | Anthony Kerr

Editor's Choice

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Mark Lewandowski: A Bouquet For Lady Day

Mark Lewandowski: A Bouquet For Lady Day

Liam Noble | Mark Lewandowski | Heidi Vogel

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Uriel Herman: Different Eyes

Uriel Herman: Different Eyes

Avri Borochov | Uriel Herman | Uriel Weinberger | Itamar Borochov | Haim Peskoff | Maayan Doari

Editor's Choice

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

Uriel Herman, the young pianist and composer from Jerusalem, studied classical piano and composition with exalted Israeli conservatoire teachers during...

Reviewed in issue August/2023

Review of Bruno Heinen, James Kitchman: Rain Shadows

Bruno Heinen, James Kitchman: Rain Shadows

Bruno Heinen | James Kitchman

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★

The comparison of this coupling to Jim Hall and Bill Evans is not a facile one. Heinen's piano and Kitchman's...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of Sharp Little Bones: Volumes I & II

Sharp Little Bones: Volumes I & II

Simon Paterson | Paul Deats | Toni Kofi | Andrew Wood

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

Paterson, Deats and Wood line up as the current house band at Peggy's Skylight in Nottingham and this group –...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of Joshua Jaswon Octet: Polar Waters

Joshua Jaswon Octet: Polar Waters

Joshua Jaswon | Marc Doffey | Aarón Castrillo | Sidney Werner | Jan Kaiser | Andrej Ugoljew | Anna Serierse | Johannes Mann

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

It’s refreshing to hear this band, led by British-born, Berlin-based Jaswon, that has both created a very distinct and individual...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Fraser Smith Quartet: Tip Top!

Fraser Smith Quartet: Tip Top!

Simon Read | Rob Barron | Steve Brown | Fraser Smith

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★

Birmingham-born but a Londoner now, young Smith has found a tenor style that suits him, taking his inspiration from the...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Enzo Zirilli's Zirobop: Ten Past Never

Enzo Zirilli's Zirobop: Ten Past Never

Rob Luft | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Alessandro Chiappetta | Enzo Zirilli

Editor's Choice

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

I’ve only seen Zirilli play live once, and he was quite a fireball. Here he's all delicacy and laid-back restraint,...

Reviewed in issue April/2023

Review of Five-Way Split: All The Way

Five-Way Split: All The Way

Vasilis Xenopoulos | Rob Barron | Quentin Collins | Matt Home | Matyas Hofecker

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

Drummer Home hosted the rest of the group at his house for a lockdown play. They liked how they got...

Reviewed in issue April/2023

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