Jazz
ALBUM REVIEWS
Bop, Fusion, Free and Smooth
A - Z OF ALL Jazz ALBUMS
A
- Eivind Aarset: Connected
- Eivind Aarset: Light Extracts
- Susanne Abbuehl: April
- John Abercrombie: Cat 'n' Mouse
- John Abercrombie: The Third Quartet
- Rabih Abou-Khalil: Songs For Sad Women
- Acoustic Ladyland: Last Chance Disco
- Acoustic Triangle: Resonance
- Actis Band: Allende
- Mina Agossi: Well You Needn't
- Misha Alperin: Night
- Amalgam: Prayer for Peace
- Gene Ammons: Goodbye
- Archie Shepp: Gemini
- Julian Arguelles: As Above So Below
- Julian Arguelles: Partita
- Arthurs.hoiby.ritchie: Explications
- Atomic: Feet Music
- Gilad Atzmon: Artie Fishel And The Promised Band
- Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble: Refuge
- Azymuth: Azimüth
B
- The Bad Plus: Prog
- The Bad Plus: Give
- Chet Baker: Chet
- Jon Balke & Magnetic North Orchestra: Kyanos
- Iain Ballamy: The Little Radio
- Iain Ballamy: More Jazz
- Phil Bancroft: Headlong
- Denys Baptiste: Let Freedom Ring!
- Guy Barker: Amadeus Project
- Guy Barker: Soundtrack
- Alan Barnes: Yeah!
- Gary Bartz: I've Known Rivers And Other Bodies
- Basquiat Strings: Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford
- Django Bates: Spring Is Here Shall We Dance
- Gordon Beck: Experiments with Pops
- Benevento Russo Duo: Best Reason to Buy The Sun
- George Benson: Beyond the Blue Horizon
- Tim Berne: The Sevens
- Tim Berne: The Sublime And
- Steven Bernstein: Diaspora Hollywood
- Big Satan: Souls Saved Hear
- Jim Black: Splay
- Ron Blake: Sonic Tonic
- Art Blakey Jazz Messengers: Caravan
- The Blessing: All Is Yes
- Carla Bley: Lost Chords Find Paolo Fresu
- Carla Bley: Looking For America
- Carla Bley: Selected Recordings
- Chris Botti: Night Sessions
- Matthew Bourne: The Electric Dr M
- Chris Bowden: Slightly Askew
- Bobby Bradford: Love's Dream
- Anthony Braxton: Solo Pisa 1982/Trio Glasgox 2005
- Anthony Braxton/Wadada Leo Smith: Organic Resonance
- Michael Brecker: Nearness of You
- Randy Brecker: 34th N Lex
- Peter Brotzmann: The Fat Is Gone
- Jack Bruce: Things We Like
- Bill Bruford's Earthworks: Footloose and Fancy Free
- Bruise: with Derek Bailey
- Alison Burns & Martin Taylor: 1am
- Burnt Sugar: Black Sex Y'All & Bloody Random Violets
- Kenny Burrell: 75th Birthday Bash Live
- Dave Buxton Trio: Mode Swings
C
- Uri Caine: Bedrock
- Uri Caine: Solitaire
- Uri Caine: Rio
- Liane Carroll: Slow Down
- James Carter: Gardenias for Lady Day
- Philip Catherine: Summer Night
- Cato Salsa Experience And The Thing with Joe McPhee: Two Bands And A Legend
- Eugene Chadbourne: Ayler Undead
- Bill Charlap Trio: Live At The Village Vanguard
- Charles Mingus: The Clown
- Don Cherry/Kryzystof Penderecki: Actions
- Chicago Underground Duo: Axis & Alignment
- Chicago Underground Trio: Slon
- Chick Corea & Gary Burton: New Crystal Silence
- Jim Cifelli's New York Nonet: Tunnel Vision
- Peter Cincotti: On The Moon
- The Claudia Quintet: For
- The Claudia Quintet: Semi-Formal
- Nels Cline Singers: Instrumentals
- Avishai Cohen: Continuo
- Bill Cole's Untempered Ensemble: Seasoning the Greens
- Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman: Song X - Twentieth Anniversary
- Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar
- Alice Coltrane: Transfiguration
- Alice Coltrane: Radha Krsna Nama Sankirtana
- John Coltrane: Coltrane
- John Coltrane: The Olatunji Concert
- John Coltrane: Traneing In
- John Coltrane & Don Cherry: The Avant-Garde
- John Coltrane: The Very Best Of The Atlantic Years
- Ravi Coltrane: Mad 6
- Chick Corea and Bela Fleck: The Enchantment
- Chick Corea: Trio Music
- The Cosmosamatics: The Cosmosamatics
- Lol Coxhill: Digswell Duets
- Lol Coxhill & Veryan Weston: Worms Organising Archdukes
- Lol Coxhill: Spectral Soprano
- Marilyn Crispell: Storyteller
- Jamie Cullum: Twenty Something
- Jamie Cullum: Catching Tales
- Jamie Cullum: Pointless Nostalgic
D
- Tadd Dameron & John Coltrane: Mating Call
- Danielsson, Dell, Landgren: Salzau Music on the Water
- Jacqui Dankworth: As The Sun Shines Down On Me
- Dave Brubeck: Indian Summer
- Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis: The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Cookbook Vol 2
- Miles Davis: Complete On The Corner Sessions
- Miles Davis: Live at the Fillmore East
- Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue
- Miles Davis: The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions
- Miles Davis: The Very Best Of Miles Davis: The Warner Bros Sessions 1985-1991
- Miles Davis: Miles Electric - A Different Kind of Blue DVD
- Miles Davis: Seven Steps; The Complete Columbia Recordings 1963 - 1964
- Miles Davis: The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions
- Day is Over/Mike Koskinen: 458 RT/60 Winslow
- Elton Dean/Alan Skidmore: El Skid
- Elton Dean's Ninesense: Live at the BBC
- Lea Delaria: Double Standards
- The Detroit Experiment: The Detroit Experiment
- Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra: Bill Dixon With Exploding Star Orchestra
- Eric Dolphy: Out There
- Dave Douglas: Freak In
- Gerd Dudek: 'Smatter
- Paul Dunmall: Moksha Big Band - I Wish You Peace
- Paul Dunmall: The Great Divide
E
- E.S.T.: Viaticum
- E.S.T.: Seven Days of Falling
- Charles Earland: Black Drops
- Taylor Eigsti: Let It Come To You
- Mats Eilertesen: Turanga
- El-p: High Water
- Duke Ellington: The Reprise Studio Recordings
- Liberty Ellman: Tactiles
- Empirical: Empirical
- Sidsel Endresen & Bugge Wesseltoft: Out Here, In There
- Erik Halvorsen Trio: Erik Halvorsen Trio
- Booker Ervin: The Freedom Book
- Esbjorn Svensson Trio: Live In Hamburg
- Bill Evans: Everybody Digs Bill Evans
F
- Fieldwork: Your Life Flashes
- Flanger: Inner Space/Outer Space
- Bela Fleck & The Flecktones: Little Worlds
- Floratone: Floratone
- Food: Last Supper
- Food: veggie
- Fourplay: Heartfelt
- Bill Frisell: Richter 858
- Bill Frisell: History, Mystery
- Bill Frisell: :rarum V
- Bill Frisell: East West
- Bill Frisell: Unspeakable
- Fulborn Teversham: Count Herbert II
G
- Jan Garbarek: In Praise of Dreams
- Jan Garbarek: Selected Recordings
- Kenny Garrett: Happy People
- Kenny Garrett: Beyond The Wall
- Gato Libre: Nomad
- Jeff Gauthier: Mask
- Fernando Gelbard: Didi
- Stan Getz/Bob Brookmeyer: Recorded Fall 1961
- Egberto Gismonti: In Montreal
- Egberto Gismonti: Selected Recordings
- Robert Glasper: In My Element
- Groundtruther: Longitude
- Mats Gustafsson & Yoshimi: Words On The Floor
- Rigmor Gustafsson and the Jacky Terrasson Trio: Close To You
- Tord Gustavsen Trio: Being There
- Tord Gustavsen Trio: Changing Places
- Tord Gustavsen Trio: The Ground
- Gwyn and Will: First Songs
- gnu: suro
H
- HIM: New Features
- Iro Haarla: Northbound
- Charlie Haden & Antonio Forcione: Heartplay
- Charlie Haden/John Taylor: Nightfall
- Charlie Haden: Private Collection
- Jim Hall: Magic Meeting
- Scott Hamilton & Friends: Across The Tracks
- Herbie Hancock: Future 2 Future
- Kip Hanrahan: Beautiful Scars
- Kip Hanrahan: Piñero
- Roy Haynes: Love Letters
- Kevin Haynes/Groupo Elegua: Ori Ire
- Charles Hayward, Hugh Hopper, Lol Coxhill, Robert Wyatt: Clear Frame
- Mark Helias & Open Loose: Strange Unison
- Mark Helias & Open Loose: New School
- Arve Henriksen: Strjon
- Arve Henriksen: Chiaroscuro
- Arve Henriksen: Sakuteiki
- Gwyneth Herbert: Between Me And The Wardrobe
- Fred Hess Quartet: Extended Family
- Hiromi: Beyond Standard
- Hiromi: Another Mind
- Billie Holiday: Lady Day Swings
- Dave Holland: What Goes Around
- Dave Holland: Extended Play - Live at Birdland
- Dave Holland: Selected Recordings
- Dave Holland: Not for Nothin'
- David Holland/Barre Phillips: Music From Two Basses
- Richard "Groove" Holmes: Book of the Blues Vol.1
- Hugh Hopper: Jazzloops
- The Hub: Trucker
- Freddie Hubbard: Straight Life
- Charlie Hunter: Friends Seen and Unseen
I
J
- Laird Jackson: Touched
- Jaga: What We Must
- Jaga Jazzist: Magazine
- Jaga Jazzist: The Stix
- Jaga Jazzist: A Livingroom Hush
- José James: Dreamer
- Keith Jarrett: Always Let Me Go
- Keith Jarrett: Up For It
- Keith Jarrett: Selected Recordings
- Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack Dejohnette: My Foolish Heart
- Billy Jenkins: Songs Of Praise Live
- Ingrid Jensen: At Sea
- Jim Hart's Gemini: Emergence
- Jimmy Giuffre: Night Dance
- Marc Johnson: Shades of Jade
- Hank Jones: The Touch
- Norah Jones: Not Too Late
- Anders Jormin: Xieyi
K
- Henry Kaiser & Wadada Leo Smith: Sky Garden
- Manu Katché: Neighbourhood
- Juliet Kelly: Delicious Chemistry
- Stacey Kent: Breakfast On The Morning Tram
- Stacey Kent: The Boy Next Door
- Stacey Kent: The Collection
- Soweto Kinch: Conversations With The Unseen
- Roland Kirk: The Case of The 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color
- Audun Kleive & Generator X: Ohmagoddabl
- Tony Kofi: Future Passed
- Lee Konitz: with Warne Marsh
- Diana Krall: Best Of
L
M
- Kevin Mackenzie's Vital Signs: Another New Horizon
- Georgia Mancio: Trapeze
- Maroon: Who The Sky Betrays
- The Marsalis Family: A Jazz Celebration
- Branford Marsalis: Eternal
- Wynton Marsalis: Popular Songs
- Wynton Marsalis: From The Plantation To The Penitentiary
- Claire Martin: Secret Love
- Claire Martin: He Never Mentioned Love
- Les McCann & Eddie Harris: Swiss Movement
- Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath: Travelling Somewhere
- Chris McGregor 's Brotherhood of Breath: Bremen to Bridgwater
- John McLaughlin: Floating Point
- Joe McPhee/Joe Giardullo: Specific Gravity
- Brad Mehldau: Live in Tokyo
- Brad Mehldau: Largo
- Elan Mehler Quartet: Scheme For Thought
- Misha Mengelberg Quartet: Four in One
- Meta Meta: Timeline
- Metheny Mehldau: Metheny Mehldau
- Metheny Mehldau: Quartet
- Pat Metheny: Day Trip
- Pat Metheny: One Quiet Night
- Pat Metheny: Secret Story
- Pat Metheny: Speaking Of Now
- Monday Michiru: 4 Seasons
- Troy Miller: 40 Days
- Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy: Cornell 1964
- Roscoe Mitchell & The Note Factory: Song For My Sister
- Grachan Moncur III: Exploration
- Jane Monheit: Surrender
- Thelonious Monk: Monk's Dream
- Thelonious Monk: Trio: Remastered
- Moondog: Moondog
- Lee Morgan: Delightfulee/Lee Morgan Vol 2 & Vol 3/Candy/Lee Morgan Indeed - Rudy Van Gelder Editions
- Paul Motian: Garden of Eden
- Paul Motian: Selected Recordings
- Paul Motian: On Broadway Vol1
- Paul Motian: I Have The Room Above Her
- Motif: Motif
- Mujician: Spacetime
- Gerry Mulligan: Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges
- Mark Murphy: Love Is What Stays
- Wolfgang Muthspiel Trio: Bright Side
N
- Max Nagl: The Evil Garden
- Max Nagl, Steven Berstein, Noel Akchote, Bradley Jones: Big Four Live
- Natureboy: Whoever You May Be
- The Necks: Townsville
- The Necks: Aether
- Neil Cowley Trio: Loud...Louder...Stop!
- Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis: Two Men With The Blues
- Silje Nergaard: At First Light
- Lennie Niehaus: Volume 5 - The Sextet
- Paal Nilssen-Love & Hakon Kornstad: Schlinger
- Nois 4: Gente
- Nucleus: The Pretty Redhead
O
P
- Pago Libre: Stepping Out
- Evan Parker: Electro-Acoustic Ensemble - Memory/Vision
- Evan Parker: Parker/Guy/Lytton at Les Instants Chavirés
- Evan Parker: Six Of One
- Jeff Parker: Like-Coping
- Partisans: Max
- Hermeto Pascoal: Slave's Mass
- Nicholas Payton: Into The Blue
- Rick Peckham: Left End
- Ivo Perelman: Suite for Helen F
- Lola Perrin: Fragile Light
- Polar Bear: Held On The Tips Of Fingers
- Kerry Politzer: Watercolor
- Chris Potter: Gratitude
- Julian Priester: Love, Love
Q
R
- Phil Ranelin: Vibes from the Tribe
- Enrico Rava: Tati
- Enrico Rava: Easy Living
- Enrico Rava & Stefano Bollani: Third Man
- Joshua Redman: Back East
- Dianne Reeves: When You Know
- Henri Renaud: The Complete Legendary Saturne recordings
- Marc Ribot: Saints
- Tom Richards Orchestra: Smoke And Mirrors
- Max Roach: We Insist: Freedom Now Suite
- Yves Robert: In Touch
- Eddie Roberts: Roughneck
- Matana Roberts: Chicago Project
- Paul Rogers: Listen
- Dennis Rollins' Badbone & Co: Make Your Move
- Josh Roseman Unit: Treats for the Nightwalker
- Ray Russell: Goodbye Svengali
- Paul Rutherford: Gheim
- Paul Rutherford: Chicago 2002
- Terje Rypdal: Selected Recordings
- Terje Rypdal: Vossabrygg
S
- David Sanchez: Cultural Survival
- Heinz Sauer/Michael Wollny: Melancholia
- Jenny Scheinman: The Rabbi's Lover
- Schlippenbach Trio: Gold Is Where You Find It
- Alexander Von Schlippenbach Trio: Winterreise
- Andreas Schnermann: Tell Me The Truth About Love
- Louis Sclavis: Napoli's Walls
- John Scofield: Überjam
- John Scofield: This Meets That
- Scorch Trio: Luggumt
- Scorch Trio: Brolt
- Scot Ray Quintet: Active Vapor Recovery
- Christian Scott: Anthem
- Tom Scott and Special Guests: Cannon Re-loaded
- Trygve Seim: Sangam
- Bud Shank with Phil Woods: Bouncing with Bud & Phil
- Ian Shaw: Lifejacket
- Ian Shaw: Drawn to All Things - The Songs of Joni Mitchell
- Archie Shepp: Attica Blues
- Andy Sheppard/John Parricelli: P.S.
- Shining: Grindstone
- Matthew Shipp: Equilibrium
- Wayne Shorter: Footprints - The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter
- Wayne Shorter: Footprints Live
- Silva/Jordan/Parker: Emancipation Suite #1
- Gwilym Simcock: Perception
- Asaf Sirkis & The Inner Noise: Song Within
- Asaf Sirkis & The Inner Noise: We Are Falling
- Solveig Slettahjell: Pixiedust
- Solveig Slettahjell: Domestic Songs
- Jason Smith: Think Like This
- Jimmy Smith: Back At The Chicken Shack/Midnight Special
- Dr. Lonnie Smith: Too Damn Hot!
- Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet: The Year of the Elephant
- Smith/Quintus/Quintus/Nauseef/Tadic: Snakish
- Soil and "Pimp" Sessions: Pimpoint
- Arnie Somogyi's Ambulance: Accident & Insurgency
- Soulive: Break Out
- The Source and Different Cikadas: The Source and Different Cikadas
- Martin Speake: Change of Heart
- Simon Spillett: Sienna Red
- Spin Marvel: Spin Marvel
- DJ Spooky: Optometry
- Spring Heel Jack: Masses
- Stan Tracey: Alice In Jazz Land
- Tomasz Stanko: The Soul of Things
- Tomasz Stanko: Suspended Night
- Colin Steele: The Journey Home
- Steve Reid Ensemble: Daxaar
- John Stevens Quartet: New Cool
- Sticks and Stones: Shed Grace
- Curtis Stigers: Real Emotional
- Thomas Strønen: Parish
- Strønen/Storløkken: Humcrush
- Sun Ra: Media Dream
- John Surman: Spaces In Between
- John Surman/Jack DeJohnette: Invisible Nature
- John Surman/Jack DeJohnette: Free and Equal
- John Surman: Way Back When
- Steve Swallow: Damaged In Transit
T
- Natsuki Tamura Quartet: Hada Hada
- Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Clouds
- Billy Taylor & Gerry Mulligan: Live At MCG
- Cecil Taylor: One Too Many Salty Swift and Not Goodbye
- John Taylor: Rosslyn
- Tchicai/Kohlhase/Fewell: Good Night Songs
- Clare Teal: Get Happy
- Clare Teal: Paradisi Carousel
- Clare Teal: That's the Way It Is
- The James Taylor Quartet: Don't Mess With Mr T
- The-Quartet: Shattering
- The Thing: Garage
- Henry Threadgill: Everybody's Mouth's a Book
- Henry Threadgill: Up Popped the Two Lips
- Steve Tibbetts: A Man About A Horse
- Tin Hat: The Sad Machinery Of Spring
- Keith Tippett: Ovary Lodge
- Jim Tomlinson: The Lyric (featuring Stacey Kent)
- David Torn: Prezens
- Ralph Towner: Time Line
- Stan Tracey/Evan Parker: Suspensions and Anticipations
- Theo Travis: Double Talk
- Gianluigi Trovesi Ottetto: Fugace
- Erik Truffaz: The Walk Of The Giant Turtle
- Erik Truffaz: Mantis
- Erik Truffaz: Arkhangelsk
- Two Banks of Four: Three Street Worlds
- McCoy Tyner: Sama Layuca
U
V
W
- Ulf Wakenius: Notes From The Heart - the music of Keith Jarrett
- Bennie Wallace: Moodsville
- Bill Ware: Sir Duke
- David S. Ware: Live in the World
- David S. Ware: Balladware
- Grover Washington: Discovery
- Weather Report: Mysterious Traveller
- Weather Report: Live and Unreleased
- Weather Report: Tale Spinnin'
- Kenny Werner: Lawn Chair Society
- Bugge Wesseltoft: Moving
- Kenny Wheeler: Song for Someone
- Wibutee: Playmachine
- Wibutee: Eight Domestic Challenges
- Cassandra Wilson: Belly of the Sun
- Cassandra Wilson: Loverly
- Gary Windo: Anglo-American
- Fred Wisdom: Words of Wisdom
- Nils Wogram: Odd and Awkward
- Wollny/Kruse/Schaefer [em]: [em]3
- Phil Woods : Phil Woods and his European Rhythm Machine at the Montreux Jazz Festival
- Phil Woods Quintet: American Songbook