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Kenny Garrett & Svoy: Who Killed AI?
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
Doubling down on bass: Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer: But Who’s Going To Play The Melody?
Edgar Meyer | Chrstian McBride
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
The Oscar Peterson Trio: Con Alma – Live in Lugano, 1964
Ed Thigpen | Ray Brown | Oscar Peterson
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
Joey Alexander: Continuance
John Davis | Theo Croker | Kris Funn | Joey Alexander
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
Christian Sands: Christmas Stories
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
Veronica Swift
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
Aaron Diehl & The Knights: The Zodiac Suite
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
Alfredo Rodriguez: Coral Way
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
Oscar Peterson: On a Clear Day
Louis Hayes | Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen | Oscar Peterson
This particular version of the Peterson trio was not together for very long. It followed the departure of George Mraz...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Christian McBride's New Jawn: Prime
Christian McBride | Nasheet Waits | Josh Evans | Marcus Strickland
Throughout his illustrious 30- year career bassist-bandleader Christian McBride has largely kept his acoustic and electric projects separate but, if...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
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