Bass rich quartet studio sounds from tender modernist the poet of the saxophone, Mark Turner. The American tangles up in blue meaningfully with trumpeter Jason Palmer in the top lines.
A Miles Davis centennial spring is in store. 'Orbits' from a must hear new tribute album streaming proves a fillip for the senses introducing Kind of Now. It's the work of Gregory Hutchinson and a stellar collection of mainly US jazzers.
A safely long dead inventor of the saxophone is ripe to be praised. The neglect of the accident prone pretty famous to be fair Belgian’s tomb is properly causing dismay in this evocative piece. Pity, and the irony is inescapable, that The Times is less keen on running album reviews of new jazz, overnight reviews of top live performances, or meaty features on the topic much. It's a different kind of neglect of the living that’s just as parlous.
An event release. A giant of British jazz piano returns with a bangingly swinging trio exhibition, on what is blindingly obviously a milestone recording.
Bursting with great writing, energy and vitality that snaps all notions of what a contemporary big band & crucially strings together should sound like, Arakatak is a clear candidate to become the recipient of a hatful of awards, surely. It's big tent cinematic jazz that's brimful of passion.
Unusually fronted by a singer who plays vibes accompanied by double bass and piano, Talkline on this performance played originals and treatments of songs by Labi Siffre, Radiohead and John Martyn.
There's plenty of spirit and a contemporary sheen to The Guesthouse. But Shai Maestro's latest doesn't quite engage as much as some of his earlier work managed to.
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