Reviews
Joshua Jaswon Octet: Polar Waters
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
Fraser Smith Quartet: Tip Top!
Simon Read | Rob Barron | Steve Brown | Fraser Smith
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
Enzo Zirilli's Zirobop: Ten Past Never
Rob Luft | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Alessandro Chiappetta | Enzo Zirilli
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
Five-Way Split: All The Way
Vasilis Xenopoulos | Rob Barron | Quentin Collins | Matt Home | Matyas Hofecker
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
Tristan Banks: View From Above
John Crawford | Paul Booth | Tristan Banks | Davide Mantovani
For three decades, the British session drummer Tristan Banks has been a first-call sideman for a ‘glitterati’ across jazz, pop...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Corrie Dick: Sun Swells
Corrie Dick wears his prodigious rhythmic education lightly, having studied with Ghanaian master Sadiq Addy alongside mind-blowing times in Morocco,...
Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2022/2023
O'Higgins & Luft: Pluto
Rod Youngs | Rob Luft | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Ross Stanley | Dave O'Higgins
Three years ago the O'Higgins/Luft alliance mined a rich vein covering the songs of Coltrane and Monk on the appropriately...
Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Andrew McCormack Trio: Terra Firma
Rod Youngs | Andrew McCormack | Joe Downard
Since his award-winning 2006 debut Telescope, Andrew McCormack's piano trio recordings have curiously been thin on the ground. The pianist–composer...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Dameronia's Legacy All-Stars: Live at Audi Forum Ingolstadt
Dameronia was a 1980s all-star group dedicated to the performance of music by Tadd Dameron, and led, initially, by drummer...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Joe Webb: Summer Chill
Alex Haines | Kitty Liv Durham | Will Sach | Jas Kayser | Fraser Smith | Joe Webb | João Caetano
The title says it all. This is an album designed to conjure up a relaxed, sunny atmosphere, which pianist/leader Joe...
Reviewed in issue August/2022

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