Reviews
Veronica Swift: This Bitter Earth
Veronica Swift's second album for Mack Avenue is an eclectic, unforgettable delight, with the singer's out-and-out virtuosity perfectly matched by...
Reviewed in issue March/2021
Emmet Cohen: Future Stride
An unexpected surprise from pianist Cohen, now in his very early 30s but clearly aware of all of jazz history....
Reviewed in issue February/2021
Yellowjackets with the WDR Big Band: Jackets XL
Mintzer is a long-time associate of the WDR band. However, the Mack Avenue releases have emphasised the Jackets' small group...
Reviewed in issue December/2020
Billy Childs: Acceptance
Childs' last new release, 2017's Rebirth, was greeted with considerable pleasure in Jazzwise 218 and with nothing less than a...
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Christian Sands: Be Water
Marcus Miller has an eponymously titled track dedicated to him; and Lalo Schifrin wrote a memorable soundtrack in the 1970s...
Reviewed in issue September/2020
Erroll Garner: Magician
Preceding Plays Gershwin and Kern, the concluding record in this reissue series of Garner's Octave recordings (reviewed in the July...
Reviewed in issue September/2020
John Beasley MONK’estra: MONK’estra Plays John Beasley
John Beasley has an impressive CV – work with Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Al Jarreau, Steely Dan and...
Reviewed in issue September/2020
Erroll Garner: Plays Gershwin and Kern
Kelly Martin | Jimmie Smith | Erroll Garner | Charles ‘Ike’ Isaacs | José Mangual | Eddie Calhoun
This final album in the 12-record series of Garner's Octave records from the 1960s and 70s begins with a version...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Erroll Garner: That's My Kick
The first of these albums, That's My Kick, marks Garner's return to the studio in 1966 after a five-year gap.Despite...
Reviewed in issue June/2020
Connie Han: Iron Starlet
Ivan Taylor | Bill Wysake | Connie Han | Jeremy Pelt | Walter Smith III
Going by just appearance, you might mistake the 24-year old pianist Connie Han for a glamorous female classical crossover artist...
Reviewed in issue June/2020
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