Reviews

Review of Christian Sands: Embracing Dawn

Christian Sands: Embracing Dawn

Christian Sands | Marvin Sewell | Yasushi Nakamura | Ross Gilliland | Warren Wolf | Andrew Joslyn | Ryan Sands | Eli Weinburger | Grégoire Maret

Mack Avenue

This album was conceived by Sands (who wrote all the material save for a somewhat abstract version of ‘Good Morning...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Review of Emmet Cohen: Vibe Provider

Emmet Cohen: Vibe Provider

Joe Farnsworth | Tivon Pennicott | Emmet Cohen | Cecily Petrarca | Kyle Poole | Philip Norris | Frank Lacy | Bruce Harris

Editor's Choice

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★★

During lockdown, Emmet Cohen established one of the world's most regularly watched online jazz shows, with the encouragement of ‘vibe...

Reviewed in issue October/2024

Review of Kenny Garrett & Svoy: Who Killed AI?

Kenny Garrett & Svoy: Who Killed AI?

Kenny Garrett | Svoy

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★

One of the significant exponents of the alto saxophone in the 1990s and 2000s, Kenny Garrett has long taken an...

Reviewed in issue May/2024

Review of Doubling down on bass: Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer: But Who’s Going To Play The Melody?

Doubling down on bass: Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer: But Who’s Going To Play The Melody?

Edgar Meyer | Chrstian McBride

Editor's Choice

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★★

Team up one of the world’s leading classical bassists with his counterpart from the jazz environment, and the results should...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Review of The Oscar Peterson Trio: Con Alma – Live in Lugano, 1964

The Oscar Peterson Trio: Con Alma – Live in Lugano, 1964

Ed Thigpen | Ray Brown | Oscar Peterson

Editor's Choice

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★★

Much is made in the Peterson literature about the special togetherness or tightness of this brilliant trio which endured from...

Reviewed in issue February/2024

Review of Joey Alexander: Continuance

Joey Alexander: Continuance

John Davis | Theo Croker | Kris Funn | Joey Alexander

Editor's Choice

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★★

In 2014, when he was 10, the Indonesian piano prodigy Joey Alexander caught the ear of Wynton Marsalis, and the...

Reviewed in issue February/2024

Review of Christian Sands: Christmas Stories

Christian Sands: Christmas Stories

Christian Sands | Max Light | Yasushi Nakamura | Keita Ogawa | Jimmy Greene | Martin Sewell | Ryan Sands | Stefon Harris

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★

Given pianist Sands’ profile these days, it seemed sensible to set aside one’s usual indifference to the American record industry’s...

Reviewed in issue December/January/2023/2024

Review of Veronica Swift

Veronica Swift

Adam Klipple | Veronica Swift | David Leon | Felix Maldonado | Randy Waldman | Ludovic Bier | Troy Roberts | Antonio Licusati | Luisito Quintero | Austin Patterson

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★★

Veronica Swift’s professional destiny was never in much doubt: daughter of jazz singer Stephanie Nakasian, who toured with Jon Hendricks,...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Review of Aaron Diehl & The Knights: The Zodiac Suite

Aaron Diehl & The Knights: The Zodiac Suite

Aaron Kimmel | David Wong | The Knights | Colin Jacobsen | Mikaela Bennett | Nicole Glover | Evan Christopher | Aaron Diehl | Brandon Lee | Eric Jacobsen

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★★

What is often considered the major long-form composition by Mary Lou Williams, her ‘Zodiac Suite’, had a chequered career during...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Review of Alfredo Rodriguez: Coral Way

Alfredo Rodriguez: Coral Way

Denis Cuni | Regis Molina | Michael Olivera | Yarel Hernandez | Juanlu Montoya | Alana Sinkëy | Cimafunk | Carlos Sarduy | Alfredo Rodriguez | Marcelo Woloski

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★★

Famed for his attacking, take-no-prisoners playing style, Cuban-born pianist and composer Alfredo Rodriguez has a back story that has become...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

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