(L&H Production) This is the Russian-born, U.S.-resident pianist and composer’s ninth jazz release since 2009. And its follow-up is all ready to go early in 2017. So, prolific Yelena Eckemoff certainly is! You might expect therefore that she would make… Read More ›
(Smoke Sessions Records) The Cookers are old school – in the best sense: an acoustic band that has extra energy and whose music seems to leap from the speakers. Groups that are as exciting as this playing fairly straight-ahead hard… Read More ›
(both Resonance) “That a performer so gifted, one of the true greats in music should be so hesitant about public appearance is just one of those mysteries… but he’s here, he’s here, this week. Ladies and gentlemen, João Gilberto!” That’s part of… Read More ›
Reviewed by Peter Vacher Pizza Express Jazz Club, London 12-01-2015 Trumpeter Damon Brown is something of a jazz peripatetic – he spends half his year in Seoul – and tends to turn up in his home country without fanfare –… Read More ›
The next 10 of the 50 CDs I have most enjoyed listening to in 2014, in ascending order. Numbers 20-11 tomorrow: 30 Michael Wollny Trio Weltentraum (ACT 9563-2) Full review here 29 Mark Turner Quartet Lathe Of Heaven (ECM 378 0663) Full review… Read More ›
(L&H cd806151-20) This is the sixth album by the classical pianist from the Soviet Union who moved to the U.S. in the ’90s and turned to jazz. Down the years Yelena has always had a fine ear for collaborators –… Read More ›
(Blue Note 0602537654482) Bobby Hutcherson is not only one of jazz’s great vibraphonists but he was also one of the linchpins of the Blue Note label back in the 1960s and ‘70s. This is his first release on that same… Read More ›
(ECM 375 9733) This is the same multi-generational band that made the wonderful All Our Reasons, released in 2012. With the veteran drummer who can list stints with Otis Redding, Stan Getz and Herbie Hancock on his lengthy CV are… Read More ›
All Our Reasons, with Ethan Iverson, Mark Turner, Ben Street (ECM 278 6631) This band was formed in 2003 and originally billed as the Ethan Iverson/Mark Turner Quartet. Since then the musicians decided it should be Billy’s band, but the… Read More ›
Russ Escritt’s choice for his pic of the week is one from the archive: Billy Hart when he was with the Phil Robson Trio at the mac in Birmingham in November 2002. Just click on the picture to find Russ’s… Read More ›
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