Reviews
Picking out a range of the essentials
Jim McNeely with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band, Expeditions, Sunnyside **** recommended
Luck out. Listen up. It's a trip
Ayumi Tanaka, Thomas Morgan, Thomas Strønen, Windflower, ECM ***1/2
Does Windflower stand out enough in a crowded field?
Cory Wong and Joshua Redman, On A Random Tuesday (Live at The Blue Note) featuring Joshua Redman, Roundwound Media ****
One of the best live albums that I have come across this year. Wong & Redman hit it off big time
Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto, Fifteen, Nonesuch **** recommended
Stirring avant-garde adventure
Mads Mathias, Just the Way You Are, Mingus Records ***
Familiar fare, in the large part winningly conveyed
Denise Donatelli, Take My Breath Away, Savant
Is this new one as good as Whistling in the Dark?
Nicole Yvette’s debut Say Yes is album of the week
An ideal introduction
Greg Abate Quartet, In The Moment, Summit ***1/2
A popular visitor to English jazz clubs, the bebopper keeps it real
Norma Winstone, Gilles Peterson Presents Norma Winstone Live at Maida Vale, BBE *****
Extraordinarily compelling - you'll want to play this all the time
Zaccai Curtis, Sonoluminescence Vol 1, TRRcollective ****
Cut a ruggable Afro-latin riff/groove alchemy skilfully conceived and executed
Anthony Strong, And Then We Kiss…, Guaranteed **** recommended
Something inside so exceptionally Strong
Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science, Trip the Night Fantastic, Candid ****
Message music and more engrossingly explored
Cindy Blackman Santana, Coherence, Mack Avenue *****
Hot today - a storming jazz-rock epic
Mixed reactions to new DOMi and JD Beck
Super talented and inventive - nothing has changed in that regard - but the maverick duo's misfiring latest is baffling.
Elias Stemeseder and Thomas Morgan, Io Pur Respiro, Squama **** recommended
Stillness, grace and imagination found on 'I Still Breathe'
Anna Pauline, Lucky To Be Me, Storyville **** recommended
In a word delightful and new in our updated list of top jazz vocals albums this year.
Marvin Muoneké charms the Flamingo
A first time appearance by fast rising star singer trumpeter Marvin Muoneké at a Soho club with a famous name.
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