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Reviewed: Andy Hague Big Band | Stephane Mercier | Alison Rayner Quintet - Jazz Journal
Andy Hague Big Band: Live At The Lantern (Ooh-Err 10) Andy Hague is a well-respected trumpet player from Bristol and within the 10 tracks here you get a snippet of what to expect if you catch his big band in action. The recording seems a little bit “bootleg” (by that I mean it’s not too […]
Reviewed: ECHT! | light.box + Tom Challenger | Jo David Meyer Lysne | Nicolas Masson | Ingi Bjarni Skúlason - Jazz Journal
ECHT!: Boilerism (SDBAN Ultra SDBANULP42) In recent times I’ve written extensively on the new Scandinavian ambient-jazz, a free-floating music which for the most part incorporates electronics and signal processing into an established vocabulary. Brussels-based electro-jazzers ECHT! take a rather different approach, fusing instrumental jazz with dominant hip-hop beats. Both of their previous albums have seen […]
Reviewed: The Leaning In Underground featuring Paula Bilá | Joan Fort | Dikeman, Hong, Lumley & Warelis | Walter Davis Jr. | Luis Rivera: - Jazz Journal
Three-fifths of this month’s reviewed albums – see immediately below – are made by Amsterdam-based musicians from all over the world. Though, for various reasons, the jazz infrastructure in The Netherlands is in poor health, expats flock to the highly regarded conservatories or blow in from the underground and take the big city scenes as […]
Reviewed: Noah Peterson | The Dave Robbins Big Band | Dave Brubeck Quartet - Jazz Journal
Noah Peterson: Coming Home To You (Peterson Entertainment) This is Noah Peterson’s seventh album as a leader, which, as usual has been released on his own Peterson Entertainment label. He often doubles on soprano and tenor but confines himself here to the alto revealing an extrovert Cannonball Adderley influence with perhaps just a little Earl […]
Reviewed: Chick Corea, Brian Blade, Christian McBride | Bill Stewart - Jazz Journal
Chick Corea, Brian Blade, Christian McBride: Trilogy 3 (Candid Records CAN33543) While there is always plenty to rave about when it comes to Return to Forever, Circle, Origin or the esteemed Elektric and Five Peace bands that Chick Corea led, there’s something about his playing in a trio setting that, for this writer, always brought […]
Reviewed: Bill Evans | Scott Hamilton | Art Pepper | Lluis Coloma & ‘Blue Lou’ Marini - Jazz Journal
Bill Evans: Further Ahead, Live in Finland 1964-1969 (Elemental Records 5990451) This Bill Evans treasure chest is yet another “discovery/recovery” by the indefatigable Zev Feldman and his colleagues. These “lost” recordings were made during Evans’ Scandinavian tours in the 1960s. There are performances in Helsinki in 1964 with bassist Chuck Israels (who replaced the deceased […]
Reviewed: Liz Cole | George Melly - Jazz Journal
Liz Cole: I Want To Be Happy (lizzycolemusic.com) On this album California-born singer Liz Cole lays 10 tracks on us, half of which even Mr. Bean would recognise and even the five that were new to me are well worth hearing. She says her parents introduced her to everything from Bartok to Blue Mitchell, and […]
Reviewed: Artemis | Sasha Berliner | Matt Carmichael - Jazz Journal
Artemis: Arboresque (Blue Note Records) Nature and environmental beauty inspired this third Blue Note release from all-female quintet Artemis. The title means “tree-like”. The album features eight five-minute tracks, with one written by each musician and three borrowed from outside. The group has won a shelf-full of awards since its debut in 2016 – and […]
Reviewed: Santana | Mel Tormé | Gustaf Ljunggren, Emil de Waal - Jazz Journal
Santana: Sentient (Candid 33532) There’s no listing for Carlos Santana in my copy of Jazz: The Rough Guide, nor any mention by contributor Ian Carr of Santana’s collaboration with fellow guitarist John McLaughlin on the (would-be) Coltrane-drenched 1973 release Love, Devotion, Surrender. This chiefly pile-driving and reiterative electric venture has long garnered heart-felt praise from […]
Reviewed: Roy Haynes | Ari Hoenig | Prestige Jazz Quartet | Jim Hart Cloudmakers Trio - Jazz Journal
Roy Haynes, Hip Ensemble (WeWantSounds WWSLP100) This month’s arrivals on my doorstep included two drum-led releases. Previously issued on Mainstream (MDCD715), Roy Haynes’ Hip Ensemble is a direct and straightforward piece of modern 70s funk-tinged hard bop. The strong front line, of tenorist and flautist George Adams and trumpeter Marvin Peterson, is keen on carving […]
The Third Stream Quartet | Magnus Bakken | Hiromi | Mike Majkowski - Jazz Journal
The Third Stream Quartet: Déja Vu (Jersika Records JRA 027-001-1000) Most of the records made by Latvian company Jersika, the jazz and improvised-music label founded by Mareks Ameriks in 2017, are made completely analogue and eventually cut directly to lacquer. But even those that go through the digital process are, the company says, carefully mastered […]
Ralph Moore, Dave Kikoski, Markus Schieferdecker and Joris Dudli in Cologne - Jazz Journal
One friendly patron jabs a finger at evidence of this street-level club’s raunchy past – red lightbulbs, wall-length mirrors and glittery golden frills hung around the ceiling. Legend has it King Georg is a former table-dancing spot. It’s not true, but the place lives up to the myth anyway. It hosted a night of saucy […]
Miles Davis painting adorns Sir Niels' new Copenhagen jazz diner - Jazz Journal
There has been a lot of excitement over the arrival yesterday in Denmark of one Miles Davis’s paintings. It is a painting gifted by Davis to saxophonist Bill Evans for the latter’s work in helping revive Davis’s career in the early 1980s. Evans has now loaned the painting to Danish pianist Sir Niels Lan Doky […]
Reviewed: George Cables | Josephine Davies | Anita Ellis, Carol Lawrence - Jazz Journal
George Cables: I Hear Echoes (High Note HCD 7356) Having over the years recorded with Art Pepper, and among other things put out a number of albums under his own name on both the SteepleChase and High Note labels, pianist George Cables now qualifies as a seasoned veteran with more than a little know-how at […]
Ron Magril | Alessandro Di Liberto | Pasquale Grasso | Ella Fitzgerald | Blue Jitters - Jazz Journal
Ron Magril: Inspired (GleAM Records AM7030) The organ trio, like big bands, probably never completely went away. It’s an observation worth making perhaps, given what appears to be a plethora of such line-ups on the worldwide scene at present. The heyday of this electrified option ran from the 50s into the 60s, mainly driven by […]
Reviewed: Jim Mullen Quartet | Nels Cline | Dreamweavers | Stian Larsen, Colin Webster, Ruth Goller, Andrew Lisle - Jazz Journal
Jim Mullen Quartet: For Heaven’s Sake (STUCD 24012) Jim Mullen, one of the UK’s pre-eminent jazz guitarists, has teamed up with two Danish musicians Jan Harbeck (tenor) and Kristian Leth (drums) and the American organist Ben Paterson for an hour-long album of standards, well-known favourites and two originals. Leth set up a quartet tour of […]
Reviewed: Sam Coombes | Anouar Brahem | Mark Turner | AuB | Butcher Brown - Jazz Journal
Sam Coombes: Time Of Life (33Jazz Records) | Anouar Brahem: After The Last Sky (ECM 2838) | Mark Turner: We Raise Them To Lift Their Heads (Loveland Music LLM023) | AuB: Folk Devils (Whirlwind Recordings WR4831 LP) | Butcher Brown: Letters From The Atlantic (Concord Jazz)
Robert Fogle: My 8 Decade Musical Journey - Jazz Journal
The author says he was born in Toronto in 1941 and is the retired president of an entertainment agency who spent 27 years hosting the radio show Some Experiences In Jazz, where he interviewed over 700 jazz people, including Oscar Peterson, Dave Brubeck, Count Basie, Stan Getz, Peter Appleyard and Moe Koffman. The blurb tells […]
Eliane Elias Trio at Ronnie Scott's - Jazz Journal
I heard this trio in 2012 when they were augmented by guitarist Rubens de La Corte for Elias’s aptly titled and ecstatically received Light My Fire quartet date at the Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival. As this fabulous evening at Ronnie’s showed, time has done nothing to diminish the interactive potency and overall appeal of leader […]