Reviews
Adam Bałdych/Vincent Courtois/Rogier Telderman: Clouds
“On this album I wanted to play less than ever before,” says Polish violin virtuoso Adam Baédych. By which he...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2020
Marius Neset/Danish Radio Big Band/Miho Hazama: Tributes
With 2016's Snowmelt and 2019's Viaduct (both featuring the London Sinfonietta), the Norwegian reeds virtuoso Marius Neset emerged as a...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2020
Michael Wollny: Mondenkind
Michael Wollny, now a family man who teaches in academe, put lockdown to good use in April with this exhilarating...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2020
Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic X: East-West
Aram Lee | Nesrine Belmokh | Yoon Jeong Heo | Majid Bekkas | NES Trio | Nguyên Lê | Jean Oh
When an instrument not usually associated with improvisation is introduced into jazz, it is usually regarded as something of a...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2020
Laila Biali: Out of Dust
Rich Brown | Larnell Lewis | Laila Biali | Glenn Patscha | Ben Wittman
I was a big fan of Laila Biali's 2018 self-titled debut on ACT – for which she bagged Vocal Jazz...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2020
Jazzrausch Bigband: Beethoven's Breakdown
Beethoven was a raver. You knew that already, of course, but, as if to allow you to hear and feel...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2020
Wolfgang Haffner: Kind of Tango
First there was Kind of Cool (2015). Next there was Kind of Spain (2017). And now, to complete the trilogy,...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: May/2020
Iiro Rantala and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen: Playing Gershwin
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen | Annti Tikkanen | Jonathan Bloxham | Iiro Rantala
The concept of ‘Symphonic Jazz’ was launched by Paul Whiteman at the Aeolian Hall on 12 February, 1924. Today that...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2020
Viktoria Tolstoy: Stations
Joel Lyssarides | Rasmus Kihlberg | Krister Jonsson | Mattias Svennson | Viktoria Tolstoy
As emotionally engaging as it is immaculately performed, this latest album from vocalist Viktoria Tolstoy scores highly for its striking...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2020
Joachim Kn/Mateusz Smoczyñski: Speaking Sound
Mateusz Smoczyñski | Joachim Kn
It would be interesting to know if the work of Australian composer Dale Cornelius has crossed the horizons of either...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2020
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