Alexander Hawkins Trio – Carnival Celestial (Intakt CD 398. Album review by Jon Turney) There are 57 varieties of piano trio, and a fair subset of them are represented on this session. […]
Alexander Hawkins Trio – ‘Carnival Celestial’
Walter Smith III, ‘return to casual’
Walter Smith III, return to casual Blue Note Records 4886621 (CD review by Mike Collins) Press ‘play’ on Walter Smith III’s return to casual, his debut release on Blue Note Records, and […]
Superblue: ‘Guilty Pleasures’ by Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter (feat. Nate Smith)
Superblue: Guilty Pleasures by Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter (feat. Nate Smith) (Edition. EDNDA1223. EP review by Alison Bentley) “I like to do big things and make big statements,” US singer Kurt […]
Enzo Zirilli’s ZiroBop – ‘Ten Past Never’
Enzo Zirilli’s ZiroBop – Ten Past Never (Ubuntu Music UBU0128. Review by Bruce Lindsay) Enzo Zirilli, Misha Mullov-Abbado, Rob Luft and Alessandro Chiappetta form the quartet known as ZiroBop and provide its […]
Matchbox Bluesmaster Series. Set 11 ‘Black Diamond Express’
Matchbox Bluesmaster Series Set 11: – 6 CDs – Black Diamond Express (MSESET11. Album Review by Chris Parker) Disc 1: Blues Piano Disc 2: Kokomo Arnold Disc 3: Peetie Wheatstraw Vol. 1 […]
Matt Mitchell: ‘Oblong Aplomb’
Matt Mitchell: Oblong Aplomb (Out Of Your Head Records OOYH 019. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Oblong Aplomb is a double album on the innovative, Brooklyn and Richmond, Virginia-based Out Of Your Head Records; it […]
Alex Koo – ‘Etudes for Piano’
Alex Koo – Etudes for Piano (W.E.R.F Records. Album review by Dick Hovenga (*) ) Flanders has a decades-long history of producing exceptionally good musicians, particularly in jazz. There are too many […]
Ingrid Laubrock – ‘The Last Quiet Place’
Ingrid Laubrock – The Last Quiet Place (Pyroclastic Records PR24. Album review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Since relocating to New York from London, Ingrid Laubrock has created an impressive body of work. If […]
Antti Lötjönen and Quintet East, Circus/ Citadel
Antti Lötjönen and Quintet East, Circus/ Citadel We Jazz Records WJCD49 (CD review by Mike Collins) Antii Lötjönen’s Quintet East is something of a super group, drawing its personnel from the most […]
Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani – ‘Les Égarés’
Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani – Les Égarés (ACT 9965-2. Album review by Jon Turney) The concept here intrigues. Marvellously expressive French soprano sax specialist Émile Parisien and accordion virtuoso Vincent Peirani have […]
Nigel Price and Alban Claret – ‘Entente Cordiale’
Nigel Price and Alban Claret – Entente Cordiale (Elsden Music EM05 – CD review by Mark McKergow) Nigel Price leads another storming twin-guitar session in this collaboration with French-born Alban Claret. They […]
Jesse Davis – ‘Live At Smalls Jazz Club’
Jesse Davis – Live At Smalls Jazz Club (Cellar Music group. Album review by Len Weinreich) There’s a reason why New Orleans born alto saxophonist Jesse Davis’s name doesn’t trip off the […]
London Brew (Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings et al.) – ‘London Brew’
London Brew – London Brew (Concord Jazz – 0088807245869. 2 CDs. Album review by Graham Spry) The album London Brew is the culmination of a project featuring leading London-based musicians responding to […]
Mike Westbrook – ‘The Piano and Me’
Mike Westbrook – The Piano and Me (Download only; album review by Patrick Hadfield) The Piano and Me is Mike Westbrook’s third album of solo piano music in recent years, following Paris and […]
Pharoah Sanders Quartet – ‘Live At Fabrik Hamburg 1980’
Pharoah Sanders Quartet – Live At Fabrik Hamburg 1980 (NDR Kultur D77123 – CD/2LP review by Mark McKergow) Pharoah Sanders leads a fine quartet through some of his best loved tunes in […]
