Jazz Reviews
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Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
23rd Jul 2019
Talk about behemoths - this week I pull out The Köln Concert, Keith Jarrett's game-changing solo album. Over forty years later it hasn't lost any of its power.
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JD Allen - Barracoon
16th Jul 2019
A fiery yet satisfying album from JD Allen, marking the 400th anniversary of the start of slavery in America.
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Roland Kirk - Volunteered Slavery
12th Jul 2019
Volunteered Slavery presented Roland Kirk at his most inclusive, exuding a lust for life that burns to this day.
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk (clarinet), Ron Burton (piano), Robert Shy (drums), Rahsaan Roland Kirk (flute), Joe "Habao" Texidor (percussion), Rahsaan Roland Kirk (tenor saxophone), Rahsaan Roland Kirk (horn), Jimmy Hopps (drums), Harold White (drums)
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Rabbia/Petrella/Aarset - Lost River
9th Jul 2019
Matt enjoys an aquatic deep listening experience with Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella and Eivind Aarset on the evocative Lost River from ECM, a well deserved Recording of the Week.
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Steve Davis - Correlations
2nd Jul 2019
A fine new album from trombonist Steve Davis and his sextet, mainly featuring his own instantly catchy compositions, some of which could become jazz favourites.
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The Atomic Mr. Basie
27th Jun 2019
Matt explores the origins behind the Count Basie Band's 1957 comeback album The Atomic Mr. Basie, a big band tour de force with state of the art compositions by Neal Hefti... the man who would go on to write the Batman theme!
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Ruud Breuls & Simon Rigter Quintet
24th Jun 2019
A solid hard bop release from the Ruud Breuls & Simon Rigter Quintet, featuring the cream of the crop of Dutch jazzmen playing original material composed by the group.
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Kayhan Kalhor
17th Jun 2019
Matt enjoys a collaboration between master kamancheh player Kayhan Kalhor and the dutch Rembrandt Frerichs Trio on their evocative new album.
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Naked City
13th Jun 2019
The first in Matt's more self-indulgent, pretentiously titled Tangents series of articles. Join him back in 1989, for a sunday encounter with New York's finest improvisers at a rep theatre in the east midlands.
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Jimmy Giuffre 3 - Live in Graz, 1961
10th Jun 2019
A fascinating document of this groundbreaking trio live in Switzerland in 1961, this offers plenty of nourishment for those willing to enter an abstract musical world.
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Charlie Parker - Early Recordings
7th Jun 2019
Charlie Parker's game changing sessions heralded the arrival of bebop and remained unsurpassed to this day... in Matt's opinion anyway. Read the full article to find out why.
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Mosambique - Big City Moves
3rd Jun 2019
This exciting young quintet from Norway release a memorable album of jazz fusion with tongue-firmly in cheek.
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Stan Getz - Focus
31st May 2019
Stan Getz's Focus gets a reappraisal, that rare thing, a jazz with strings album that challenges, thanks to Eddie Sauter's sophisticated arrangements.
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Alexi Tuomarila Trio - Sphere
24th May 2019
Alexi Tuomarila and his group prove there is plenty of scope of innovation in the jazz piano trio, forging their own unique sound on Sphere.
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Thelonious Monk Trio
23rd May 2019
Thelonious Monk roughed up some of his best known tunes on these exciting and spiky trio sessions, recorded during a troubled period in the pianists life, just before he would break through with some of his definitive albums.
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Pacifica from Australian quartet The Vampires
17th May 2019
Matt delights in the refreshingly breezy new album from The Vampires, an Australian collective blending jazz with exotica, dub and much more.
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Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen - Red Lips, Knuckles and Bones
10th May 2019
Hilde Louise Asbjørnsen delivers a moving album of her own material, genre hopping from jazz to americana with style and humour, despite personal losses that inspired many of the songs.
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Miles Davis - Milestones
8th May 2019
One of the pinnacles of hard-bop, Milestones showcases some of the finest musicians at work in the fifties - John Coltrane, Julian `Cannonball' Adderley, Red Garland, Paul Chambers, and Jo Jones, as well as Miles Davis's first steps into modal jazz.
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Claire Martin
2nd May 2019
Claire Martin celebrates her twentieth album in style with this collection of modern day standards recorded with her Swedish trio.
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Trish Clowes - Ninety Degrees Gravity
26th Apr 2019
A vivid and compelling new album from Trish Clowes' quartet My Iris, Matt has been enjoying the sci-fi mind-flip that is Ninety Degrees Gravity on Basho Records.
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