Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano – Once Around the Room: A Tribute to Paul Motian (ECM 4599490. Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) The recording career of Paul Motian (1931–2011) began with Bill Evans’s […]
Magnus Lindgren & Georg Breinschmid – Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XIII: Celebrating Mingus 100 (ACT 9955-2. Album review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Which album is Mingus’s masterpiece? Many argue for The Black Saint […]
Theo Croker Quartet and members of the Berlin Philharmonic (arr Magnus Lindgren) – Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XII – Sketches of Miles (ACT 9948-2. Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) To open CD 1 […]
Florian Willeitner, Georg Breinschmid, Igmar Jenner – First Strings on Mars (ACT Records ACT 9921-2. Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Ask any jazz aficionado to reel off the names of pianists, bassists, drummers, […]
Stick Men with Gary Husband – Owari (MoonJune Records MJR106. Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Stick Men is a trio that’s effectively an offshoot of King Crimson, a band whose ancestral roots twist […]
Gabriel Vicéns – The Way We Are Created (Inner Circle Music INCM 094. Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Gabriel Vicéns is a Puerto Rican guitarist now resident in New York, and The Way […]
Tom Smith – Gecko (Digital download only. Basho Records SRCD58-2. Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Tom Smith, jazz saxophonist? Perhaps like me you did a double take, wondering whether Scottish tenor saxophonist Tommy […]
Petr Cancura with Charlie Hunter & Geoff Clapp – Don’t Let It Stop! (Roots2Boot Recordings. CD Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Don’t Let it Stop! is a live recording created from three performances […]
Tim Garland – ReFocus (Edition Records EDN1159. Review by Julian Maynard-Smith) Is it still worth buying CDs or vinyl when so much music is available on Spotify and other streaming services? Tim […]
