Jazzwise Choices,
Jazzwise Editor's Choices - November 2023
Jazzwise Editor's Choices from the October 2023 issue include new music from corto.alto, George Freeman, Alex Hitchcock Dream Band, James Brandon Lewis & Red Lily Quintet, Rob Luft, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Joshua Redman, John Scofield and Shake Stew, plus an extensive reissue of archive materials from Brian Auger's Oblivion Express as well as Art Farmer.
“Shortall’s vision can only get deeper and bolder with time, but for now, Bad With Names is full of good decisions.”
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
“No-one overplays - they know a good groove when they hear one and fall right in.”
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
“This is superior stuff that sounds great from the first time you hear it, and just keeps getting better.”
Available Format: 3 Vinyl Records
“Lewis’ music is a fitting blend of the passion, intelligence and grace that defined a woman whose spirit is eternal and whose talent remains a monument of modern music.”
Available Format: 2 CDs
“Rob Luft is always travelling, and as he travels, he absorbs every kind of music in his path, creating hallucinogenic new worlds of sound as he goes.”
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
“A gift of an album, which words are too clumsy to describe.”
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
“Bittersweet and elegiac, [the songs] evoke time and place while also signifying Redman’s joy that musicians are able to join together again in a physical space…”
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
“It’s his most compelling album for a long while, simply because it captures the freewheeling let’s-see-where-the-music-takes-us ethos that characterises Scofield’s playing in live performance…”
Available Formats: 2 CDs, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
“This is an album of enormous, integral sonic detail and exploratory zeal, adding six more chambers to Shake Stew’s sultry house of music.”
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Archives & Reissues
“Even in his 80s, Auger still has the energy to light up a chunk of LA which has been his home since the late 1970s, which is when this run of Oblivion Express albums essentially takes us to.”
Available Format: 6 Vinyl Records
“Ahead for Art there was more, lots more, to come. For now, seek out any of the ballad performances here and you’ll recognise a jazz master.”
Available Format: 2 CDs
Barney Whittaker
