All these albums are reviewed in the MARCH 2014 issue of Jazzwise which is out now – to read them all click here to subscribe here and get a FANTASTIC FREE CD
New Releases
The Bannau Trio Points of View Whirlwind Recordings
Jim Beard Show Of Hands Sunnyside
Borah Bergman/Kidd Jordan/William Parker/Michael Wimberly Vita Brevis This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Blazing Flame Play High Mountain Top Leo Records
Olivier Bogé The World Begins Today Naïve
Catherine & Wind Duo Art – New Folks ACT
Andre Canniere Coalescence Whirlwind
Avishai Cohen Almah Parlophone Music France/Warner Music Group
Carsten Dahl, Arild Anderson, Jon Christensen Under the Rainbow Storyville
Carsten Dahl Experience Reverentia Storyville
Kate Daniels Atmospherics Loxford Records
Philip Dizack Single Soul Criss Cross Jazz
Marty Ehrlich Large Ensemble A Trumpet in the Morning New World Records
Amir ElSaffar Alchemy Pi Recordings
Charles Evans Subliminal Leaps More Is More
Antonio Faraò American Quartet Evan Cristal Records
Steve Gadd Gadditude BFM Jazz
Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio Whaling City Sound
Tord Gustavsen Quartet Extended Circle ECM
Fareed Haque Out Of Nowhere Charleston Square
Gary Husband and Alex Machacek Now Abstract Logix
Laurie Jacobs/Dick Pearce Quintet Full Steam Ahead!!! Soultrane
Nils Landgren Eternal Beauty ACT
Let Spin Let Spin Efpi
Magic Malik Tranz Denied Bee Jazz
Ibrahim Maalouf Illusions Sony/ATV
Michael J McEvoy The Long Way Home Rezzonator Music
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra American Adventure Spartacus Records
Anders Mogensen Another Day at the Office SteepleChase Look Out
George Mraz and Zoe Rahman Unison: Jazz at Greville Lodge Vol. 3 Cube-Metier
Danilo Pérez Panama 500 Mack Avenue
Maria Pia De Vito/François Couturier/Anja Lechner/Michele Rabbia Il Pergolese ECM Records
Roswell Rudd Trombone For Lovers Sunnyside
Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures Both/And Meta
Simcock & Goloubev Duo Art: Reverie at Schloss Elmau ACT
Skadedyr Kongekrabbe Hubro
Snarky Puppy We Like It Here Ropeadope / GroundUP Records
Dayna Stephens I’ll Take My Chances Criss Cross Jazz
Christoph Stiefel & Inner Language Trio Big Ship Basho
John Taylor In Two Minds CamJazz
Christine Tobin A Thousand Kisses Deep Trail Belle Records
Trio Riot Trio Riot Efpi
The Universal Quartet Light ILK
Matt Wilson Quartet Gathering Call Palmetto
Michael Wollny Trio Weltentraum ACT
Short Cuts//New Releases
Howard Alden/Andy Brown Quartet Heavy Artillery Delmark
Peter Brendler/John Abercrombie The Angle Below Steeplechase
Cedric Caillaud Trio Swingin the Count Swing Alley
Cakewalk Transfixed Hubro
Amy Cervini Jazz Country Anzic
Gustavo Cortinas Snapshot Ta’ Babuino
Fernandez Guy Lopez A Moment’s Liberty Maya
Gaubert/Ceccarelli/Top Ligne Sud Trio Cristal
Zoe Gilby Twelve Stories 33 Records
Hadouk Quartet Hadoukly Yours Naïve
Michael Jaegers Kerouac Dance around in your Bones Intakt
Bobo Moreno Silhouette Moosicus
Nostalgia 77 A Journey Too Far Tru Thoughts
Nypan Republique Losen
Polwechsel Traces of Wood Hatology
Project Them Project Them Miles High
Matthias Schubert/Simon Nabatov Duo Descriptions Leo
Jacques Schwarz-Bart Jazz Racine Haiti Motéma
Reissues/Archive
Chet Baker Chet Baker Quintette Boplicity Remastered
Chick Corea Tones for Joan’s Bones Atlantic
Don Cherry Live In Stockholm Caprice
Ornette Coleman Four Classic Albums AvidJazz
Larry Coryell Barefoot Boy BGP Records
Miles Davis North Sea Legendary Concerts Bop City
Al Di Meola Land of the Midnight Sun BGO
Art Farmer The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note Cam BXS
Ella Fitzgerald The Voice of Jazz Verve Records
Dizzy Gillespie North Sea Jazz Legendary Concerts Bob City
Dexter Gordon North Sea Legendary Concerts Bop City
The Tubby Hayes Quartet Seven Steps to Heaven: Live at the Hopbine 1972 Gearbox Records
Earl Hines Classic Earl Hines Sessions 1928-1945 Mosaic
Ahmad Jamal Trio The Classic 1958-1962 Recordings Jazz Dynamics
Iskra 1903 South On The Northern Emanem
Oliver Lake The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint And Soul Note BXS
Wynton Marsalis The Spiritual Side Of Wynton Marsalis Columbia
Harry Miller Different Times, Different Places Ogun
Blue Mitchell & Junior Cook Quintet Sessions /The Cup Bearers /Junior’s Cookin’ Fresh Sounds
Blue Mitchell & Orchestra Smooth Is The Wind/A Sure Thing Fresh Sounds
David Murray The Complete Black Saint And Soul Note Recordings Volume 2 BXS
Art Pepper Unreleased Art Vol.V!!! (Live At The Winery) Art Pepper Music
Max Roach Quintet Swiss Radio Days Montreux Jazz
Robert Wyatt ’68 Cuneiform Rune
Lester Young Pres And Teddy Phoenix
Joe Zawinul Zawinul Atlantic/Warner Jazz
Short Cuts//Reissues
Count Basie Kansas City 7 / Memories ad lib Essential Jazz Classics
Francy Boland Playing with the Trio Schema
Terry Gibbs Four Classic Albums Avid
Chris Connor Sings Lullabys for Lovers Verse
Aretha Franklin The Queen of Soul Atlantic
Dizzy Gillespie The New Continent Phoenix
Milt Jackson Quintet and Sextet with Lucky Thompson Fresh Sound
Warne Marsh Warne Marsh Atlantic
Les McCann On Time Fresh Sound
Glenn Miller Live at Glen Island Casino Acrobat
Phineas Newborn Jr Here Is Phineas Atlantic
Dave Newman Fathead Comes On Atlantic
Kid Ory The Original Jazz Upbeat
Duke Pearson Prairie Dog Atlantic
Oscar Peterson West Side Story / Affinity Poll Winners
Oscar Pettiford Modern Quintet Verse
Bud Powell In Paris Reprise
Otis Redding The King of Soul Atlantic
Aldo Romano Canzoni Enja
Various Artists Modern Brass Bands: First and Second Lines, New Orleans 1990-
2005 Fremeaux
Ropeadope / GroundUP Records
Michael League (el b, Moog keybass), Bill Laurance (p, Fender Rhodes, kys),Justin Stanton (Fender Rhodes, kys, t), Cory Henry (Hammond B3 organ, kys),Shaun Martin (Moog, kys), Bob Lanzetti (el g), Mark Lettieri (el g), Chris McQueen (el g), Chris Bullock (ts, b clt, fl), Bob Reynolds (ts), Mike ‘Maz’ Maher (t, flhn), Jay Jennings (t, flhn), Nate Werth (perc), Larnell Lewis (d), Yannick Hiwat, Tessel Hersbach (vln), Mara Tieles (vla), Susanne Rosmolen (clo), Julio Pimental and Steven Brezet (perc on tracks 4 & 7). Rec. October 2013
Since 2005 Snarky Puppy have had a studio audience present at every recording, most vividly captured on the simultaneously filmed DVDs of each album notably 2012’s breakthrough GroundUP and their recent Grammy winning Family Dinner Vol.1. If this squares the circle of bringing a certain frisson of in-concert energy to the often clinically dry studio, the fact that this band are exceptionally grooved-in after playing 1,000 gigs, Michael League’s Snarky Puppy take their levels of sophisticated textural layering and sheer groove prowess to new levels here. With no less than 20 players all breathing as one, the music – while still offering singable ways in to their melodic world – doesn’t shy away from lengthy solos or rhythmic complexity. Older hands may nod as they acknowledge the snap of Tower Of Power in the horns or Weather Report in the wide chordal shifts, yet Snarky’s energy and enthusiasm for recasting this afresh for their generation to embrace anew, free from histrionics, is only to be applauded. There’s variation aplenty too from the brooding Arabic rock of opener ‘Shofukan’, to the Led Zeppelin-via-P Funk-injected ‘What About Me’, and ‘Kite’s wide-angle horn arrangements. While this is all about the collective, drummer Larnell Lewis (who only stepped into record the album at the last minute) impressively powers the percussive vortex while keyboardist Corey Henry builds two extraordinary solos. In fact it’s Henry and the horn section that duel it out on the burning 5/4 finale ‘Lingus’ as percussion, keys solo and stabbing horn interjections face off in spectacular fashion. Dedicated to a certain Irish airline it’s a fittingly exultant touchdown for this highflying tour de force of an album.
– Mike Flynn
All these albums are reviewed in the FEBRUARY 2014 issue of Jazzwise which is out now – to read them all click here to subscribe here and get a FANTASTIC FREE CD
New Releases
Arild Andersen/Paolo Vinaccia/Tommy Smith Mira ECM
The Jamie Baum Septet+ In This Life Sunnyside Records
Randy Brecker The Brecker Brothers Band Reunion Moosicus
Bushman’s Revenge Thou Shalt Boogie! Rune Grammofon
Daniel Carter/William Parker/Federico Ughi Navajo Sunrise Rudi
Daniele Cavallanti and the Brotherhood Creative Trance Music Ensemble Faces and Tales Rudi Records
The Claudia Quintet September Cunieform Rune
Rachael Cohen Half Time Whirlwind
Dave Douglas DD 50 Special Edition 50th Birthday Recordings Greenlea
Mark Edwards In Deep Quiet Money
GoGo Penguin v2.0 Gondwana
Abdullah Ibrahim Mukashi / Once Upon A Time Intuition
Jazz ExTempore Orchestra East & West 33 Records
Willie Jones III Sextet Plays the Max Roach Songbook Live at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
Jeanette Köhn and Swedish Radio Choir New Eyes on Baroque ACT
Jon Lloyd Group Vanishing Points 33Xtreme Records
Brian Lynch Unsung Heroes Vol. 2 Hollistic Music Works
Étienne Mbappé Pater Noster Plus Loin Music
Zara McFarlane If You Knew Her Brownswood
Mehliana Taming the Dragon Nonesuch
Pat Metheny Unity Group Kin Nonesuch
Mozdzer Danielsson Fresco Polska ACT
Mumpbeak Mumpbeak RareNoise
The Necks Open ReR Megacorp
Bill O’Connell & The Latin Jazz All-Stars Zocalo Savant
Linda Oh Sun Pictures Greenleaf Music
Evan Parker & Joe McPhee What / If / They Both Could Fly Rune Grammofon
Gretchen Parlato Live in NYC ObliqSound
Nicholas Payton Sketches of Spain BMF Records
Troyk-estra Live at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2013 Impossible Ark
Mark Perry/Duncan Eagles Road Ahead F-IRE
Romain Pilon Colorfield Whirlwind Records
Steve Plews/Ed Jones Derelict ASC
James Plotkin & Paal Nilssen-Love Death Rattle Rune Grammofon
Ragini Trio Ragini De Werf
Pete Rodriguez El Alquimista (The Alchemist) Conde Music
Michele Rosewoman’s New Yor-Uba 30 Years: A Musical Celebration of Cuba in America Advance Dance Disques
Samo Salamon Quartets Stretching Out Samo Records
Norma Winstone/Glauco Venier/Klaus Gesing Dance Without Answer ECM
Gwilym Simcock and the City of London Sinfonia Instrumation ACT
Tigran Shadow Theater Universal/Verve
Ben Van Gelder Reprise Pirouet
Various Artists Red Hot + Fela Knitting Factory Records
Natalie Williams Where You Are Little Girl Records
Webster Wraight Ensemble No Lucky Days Miso/ Heavenly Sweetness
Short Cut // New Releases
Howard Alden/ Andy Brown Heavy Artillery Delmark
Bad Ass Brass Live! Bad Ass Records
John Bailey Quartet Heart Horizons johnbaileyquartetbandcamp.com
Comanda Barabba Jazz Resistant Rudi Records
Bodrato Battaglia Massaria Furia Bartleby the Scrivener Evil Rabbit
Ruthie Culver/Utterjazz Band Look Stranger Purring
Paul Edis Not Like Me www.pauledis.co.uk
Schweizer Favre Live in Zurich Intakt
Gordon Grdina/Mark Helias No Difference Songlines
Pablo Held Elders Pirouet
Marquis Hill The Poet Skiptone
Dave Jackson Quartet Cosmontology davejacksonmusic.com
John Lake Trio Up on the Downs John Lake
Chuck Loeb Silhouette Moosicus
Myra Melford Life Carries Me This Way Firehouse
Lorna Reid Falling like Dew www.lornareid.com
Sao Paulo Underground Beija Flors Velho E Sujo Cuneiform
Threeway Looking Forward, Looking Back Jazz Cat
Fay Victor Ensemble Absinthe and Vermouth Sunnyside
Reissues/Archive Reviews
Gato Barbieri Fenix/Gato… Para Los Amigos/Que Pasa/Che Corazon Flying Dutchman Jazz Classics
Dollar Brand/Abdullah Ibrahim Orchestra African Space Program Enja
Ornette Coleman Ornette On Tenor Atlantic
John Coltrane and Don Cherry The Avant-Garde Atlantic Warner Andrew Cyrille Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint And Soul Note BXS
Gil Evans Svengali Atlantic
Donny Hathaway Never My Love: The Anthology Rhino/Atco
John Coltrane The Complete Sun Ship Session Mosaic Records 3LP Vinyl
Keith Jarrett Concerts: Bregenz/München/No End ECM
Rahsaan Roland Kirk & The Vibration Society Rahsaan, Rahsaan Atlantic
Lee Konitz The Real Lee Konitz\With Warne Marsh Atlantic/Warner Jazz
Shelly Manne & His Men Boss Sounds! – Shelly Manne & His Men At Shelly’s Manne-Hole\Jazz Gunn Atlantic
Jackie McLean Quartet Swing, Swang, Swingin’/ Let Freedom Ring American Jazz Classics
Charles Mingus The Jazz Workshop Concerts 1964-65 Mosaic
Charles Mingus The Clown Atlantic
Charles Mingus Three Or Four Shades Of Blues Atlantic
The Modern Jazz Quartet The Modern Jazz Quartet/At Music Inn – Guest Artist Jimmy Giuffre/The Comedy/Lonely Woman/Plastic Dreams/The Legendary Profile/Blues For Bach Atlantic
Marius Neset Suite for the Seven Mountains Discovery
William Parker Wood Flute Songs:Anthology/Live 2006-2012 Aum Fidelity
Max Roach The Max Roach Trio Featuring The Legendary Hasaan Atlantic
S.O.S. Looking For The Next One Cuneiform Rune
Various Artists Verve: The Sound of America: The Singles Collection Verve
Miroslav Vitous Infinite Search Atlantic
Mal Waldron Hard Talk Enja
Gondwana CD 009
Chris Illingworth (p), Nick Blacka (b) and Rob Turner (d). Rec. 2013
Manchester’s GoGo Penguin prove, among other things, what a rhythmic gift the drum ’n’ bass dance scene, which began in the 1990s, has been to British jazz’s forward-thinking wing. Their follow-up to 2012’s Fanfares maintains that album’s flare for anthemic riffs and skittering grooves, and with new double-bassist Nick Blacka and more generous studio time, pushes the acoustic piano trio format further into the future. ‘One Percent’ (suggesting the politically resistant undercurrent somewhere deep in these grooves) sees Turner’s drums threaten to bust free of the tune. But the trio’s schooling in bop, break-beats and classical forms lets them easily contain this chaotic element within the music’s elastic yet unbroken shape. ‘To Drown In You’ shows their gift for studio dynamics. One moment Blacka’s bass is being mournfully, traditionally bowed, then the volume leaps forward with an echoing boom. Each instrument then unpredictably, momentarily shifts up in the mix. This effects-aided, organic reboot of the solo principle sums up GoGo Penguin’s approach. Classical melancholy, dance-floor thrills and jazz’s free, intuitive thinking are all on generous display here.
– Nick Hasted
All these albums are reviewed in the DECEMBER 2013 issue of Jazzwise which is out now – to read them all click here to subscribe here and get a FANTASTIC FREE CD
New Releases John Abercrombie Quartet 39 Steps ECM
AfroHORN / Francisco Mora Catlett Rare Metal AACE Records
Astro Sonic Come Closer And I’ll Tell You Hubro
Tim Berne’s Snakeoil Shadow Man ECM
Tony Bevan and Matthew Bourne At Leeds College of Music May 2010 Foghorn
Brass Jaw Minted Keywork Records
Brass Mask Spy Boy Babel Label
David Chesky Jazz in the New Harmonic Chesky Records
Ramberto Ciammarughi New Music for Trio CAM Jazz
Gerald Clark Nakba – A Jazz Suite for Palestine theinterruptingsheep.com
Paquito D’Rivera and Trio Corrente Songs for Maura Paquito Records
Da Lata Fabiola Agogo
Dunmall/Hanslip/Gibbs/ Ricard Weeping Idols
Echoes of Swing Blue Pepper ACT
Fringe Magnetic Clocca LOOP Records
Get The Blessing Lope and Antilope Naim Jazz
Global Noize Supersly – Reimagining the Music of Sly & the Family Stone Zoho
Sunna Gunnlaugs Distilled Sunny/Sky
Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith OKeh
Harmonie Ensemble/ New York The Nutcracker Suites Harmonia Mundi
Ollie Howell Sutures and Stitches Whirlwind
Huntsville Past Increasing, Future Receding Hubro
Chris Hyson Little Moon Man EP (played by Kit Downes) ChrisHyson.bandcamp.com
Kayhan Kalhor and Erdal Erzincan Kula Kulluk Yakısir Mı ECM
Jeff Lorber Fusion Hacienda Heads Up
Harold López-Nussa New Day Jazz Village
Geir Lysne New Circle ACT
The Pedrito Martinez Group The Pedrito Martinez Group Motéma Music
Tina May Divas Hep Jazz HEP
Chris Morrissey North Hero Sunnyside
Aaron Parks Arborescence ECM
Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Mat Maneri A Violent Dose Of Anything Leo
Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/Whit Dickey/ Gerald Cleaver Enigma Leo
Jason Rebello Anything But Look Lyte Records
ReDiviDeR Meets I Dig Monk, Tuned Diatribe
Dianne Reeves Beautiful Life Concord Records
Matt Ridley Trio Thymos Whirlwind Recordings
Sachal Studios Orchestra Jazz and All That In Memory of Dave Brubeck Sachal Music
Nicky Schrire Space and Time NXS
Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion The Blues Don’t Scare Me 33 Records
Archie Shepp Attica Blues Orchestra I Hear The Sound Archieball
Nick Smart’s Trogon Tower Casa Babel Label
Dr Lonnie Smith The Healer Pilgrimage
Szakcsi/Potter/Veal/ Carrington Live at MÜPA BMC
The Thing Boot! The Thing Records
Viktoria Tolstoy and Jacob Karlzon A Moment Of Now ACT
Ralph Towner/ WolfgangMuthspiel/ Slava Grigoryan Travel Guide
Steve Turre The Bones of Art HighNote
Various The Road To Jajouka Howe
Vive Album Deluxe Encanta Records
Max von Mosch Orchestra Berlin Kaboom! ACT
Pete York and Young Friends Basiecally Speaking ACT
Short Cuts New Releases
Kari Antila The North Wind Seventh String Music
Marco Blanco No Time Like the Present Cognitive Dissonance
Wilford Brimley with the Jeff Hamilton Trio Capri
Robert Carter Trio That’s Just It Flame Records
Dig a Little Deeper Songs from the Small Hours Spin Cycle
Jules Faife Compás www.julesfaife.com
Gado Quartet with Dave Liebman Umgrund
Enrico Granafei Alone (and) Together CAP
Grid Mesh Live in Madrid Leo
Florian Hoefner Group Falling Up OA2
Christoph Irniger Trio Gowanus Canal
Mike Jones Trio Plays Well with Others Capri
Love Notes Special Unit Love to Light TEMC
Vana Gierig Making Memories Enja
Go: Organic Orchestra Sonic Mandala Meta Records
The Margots Pascado Okka
Daniel Rosenboom’s Book of Omens Nine Winds
Reissues // Archive Reviews
Kenny Burrell Quintet Introducing Kenny Burrell/ Weaver of Dreams Essential Jazz Classics
Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett Atlantic
Gary Burton Good Vibes Atlantic
Ornette Coleman Ornette! Atlantic Warner
Ornette Coleman The Art of The Improvisers Atlantic Warner
John Coltrane The Heavyweight Champion: the Complete Atlantic Recordings Rhino/Atlantic
Grateful Dead Sunshine Daydream (Veneta, Oregon, 8/27/72) Grateful Dead Productions/ Rhino
Charles Brackeen, Rhythm X (The Music of Charles Brackeen) Strata East 1973 (Lost In The Vaults)
Billie Holiday Music For Torching + Velvet Mood Poll Winners
Herbie Hancock The Complete Columbia Album Collection 1972-1988 Columbia Legacy
King Crimson The Road To Red Panygyric Recordings
John Lewis European Encounter/Animal Dance American Jazz Classics
Charles Lloyd Quartet: Dream Weaver / Forest Flower/ Charles Lloyd in Europe / The Flowering / Love-In / Journey Within Atlantic / Charles Lloyd in the Soviet Union Atlantic / Soundtrack Atlantic
Charles Mingus Passions Of A Man: the Complete Atlantic Recordings 1956-1961 Rhino/Atlantic
Modern Jazz Quartet The Lost Tapes/Germany 1956-1958 SWR Music
European Concert Volume One & Two Atlantic
Mark Murphy The Complete Decca Recordings Fresh Sound Records
Tony Scott Three Classic Albums Plus: 52nd Street Scene/The Touch Of Tony Scott/Tony Scott In Hi-Fi/ Newport 1958 Avid
Jimmy Smith Bashin’ – The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith/Plays Fats Waller Essential Jazz Classics
Spontaneous Music Ensemble Challenge Emanem
Bob Thiele Emergency Head Start BGP
Various Jazz On Film: French New Wave 1957-62 Jazz On Film Recordings
Various Artists Selected Signs III – VIII ECM
Short Cuts // Reissues
Bunny Berigan Swingin’ and Jumpin’ Hep
Marty Paich and the Modern Touch I Get a Boot Out of You Warner Bros
Conte Candoli / Lou Levy West Coast Wailers
Duke Ellington All American in Jazz / Midnight In Paris Essential Jazz Classic
Ella Fitzgerald Sings Sweet Songs for Swingers / Get Happy! Essential Jazz Classics
Billie Holiday Live at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival 1957 Solar
Fred Kaz Eastern Exposure Atlantic
Julie London Calendar Girl / Around Midnight Fine and Mellow
Marcel Marceau …Presents Swing im Bahnhof Schema
Carmen McRae Take Five / Live at Sugar Hill American Jazz Classics
Marty Paich and the Modern Touch The Broadway Bit Warner Bros
Frank Rosolino Turn Me Loose! Reprise
Carol Stevens (with Phil Moore) That Satin Doll Atlantic
Rex Stewart / Henri Chaix Baden 1966 / Montreux 1971 Sackville
Various Artists Fetén: Rare Jazz Recordings from Spain 1961-74 Vampi Soul
Various Artists Previously Unreleased Concert Recordings From KB Hallen Copenhagen 1946-60 Sundance (Denmark)
Various Artists Salsa de la Bahia Patios Records
Fats Waller Complete Victor Piano Solos Phoenix
