Reviews
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
Uriel Herman: Different Eyes
Avri Borochov | Uriel Herman | Uriel Weinberger | Itamar Borochov | Haim Peskoff | Maayan Doari
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
Bruno Heinen, James Kitchman: Rain Shadows
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
Sharp Little Bones: Volumes I & II
Simon Paterson | Paul Deats | Toni Kofi | Andrew Wood
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
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
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