Jazz Reviews
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Charles Mingus - The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
24th Apr 2020
This week Josh pirouettes to Mingus's celebrated jazz-ballet The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady for the latest Classic Album choice.
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Steve Lacy - Morning Joy
11th Apr 2020
One of the finest jazz recordings of the eighties, Steve Lacy's Morning Joy continues to hold its fascination over thirty years later.
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Shabaka & The Ancestors - We Are Sent Here By History
9th Apr 2020
Josh immerses himself in the prophetic messages of Shabaka and the Ancestors.
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John Coltrane - Giant Steps
27th Mar 2020
This week Josh revisits John Coltrane's timeless mid-period masterpiece Giant Steps.
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Shri - The Letter
13th Mar 2020
Bass supremo Shri presents a selection of his vivid tone poems, recorded in a hut in the Norwegian mountains with Bugge Wesseltoft and guests.
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McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
6th Mar 2020
It was a sad coincidence to hear of McCoy Tyner's passing shortly after posting this Classic Album Review of The Real McCoy. Thankfully Tyner's wonderful 60-year contribution to music lives on.
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Mccoy Tyner
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Ivo Neame & Jim Hart - Multiverse
21st Feb 2020
Ivo Neame and Jim Hart set the controls for the heart of the sun on the terrific Multiverse project.
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Multiverse
Jim Hart (drums & vibraphone), Ivo Neame (piano)
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Herbie Hancock - Thrust
17th Feb 2020
Herbie Hancock's Thrust is a jazz-funk tour de force that saw the keyboard whiz-kid experimenting with new gear and an exciting new drummer.
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Majid Bekkas - Magic Spirit Quartet
7th Feb 2020
Magic Spirit Quartet finds Majid Bekkas channelling the Gnawa music of his Moroccan homeland to create a powerful collision of world and jazz music.
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Magic Spirit Quartet
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The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vols 1 & 2
31st Jan 2020
Take a trip into the Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, with this brand new issue of volumes 1 & 2 of these classic albums on one disc from the ezz-thetics label.
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Peter Beets & the Henk Meutgeert New Jazz Orchestra
24th Jan 2020
An impressive set from The Netherlands, with pianist Peter Beets and The Henk Meutgeert New Jazz Orchestra romping through dazzling arrangements of classical music and standards.
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Dave Brubeck Quartet at Oberlin & Wilshire-Ebell
13th Jan 2020
Two classic Dave Brubeck Quartet concerts from 1953 find the pianist, with saxophonist Paul Desmond, forging the sound that would soon sell a million albums.
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Dave Brubeck Quartet
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Edmond Hall
10th Jan 2020
Clarinetist Edmond Hall is the focus of this week's Classic Album feature, a brilliant musician who managed to maintain a long and distinguished career through the changing stylistic tides of jazz.
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Nina Simone in Concert
13th Dec 2019
Nina Simone in Concert from 1964 stands as one of the most politically charged statements of the Civil Rights Movement, and a key album of Simone's career. From the perspective of late 2019 it stands as a timely warning of the dangers of complacency.
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Kit Downes - Dreamlife of Debris
29th Nov 2019
Finding inspiration in W.G. Sebald's novel The Rings of Saturn, Kit Downes's second album for ECM demonstrates his unique approach to the church organ with a brilliantly atmospheric suite of pieces.
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Eri Yamamoto's Goshu Ondo Suite
15th Nov 2019
Composer/pianist Eri Yamamoto weaves magic in this choral jazz odyssey, drawing on the Japanese tradition of Goshu Ondo, the dance song, in a vivid collaboration between her trio and Choral Chameleon.
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Eri Yamamoto Trio & Choral Chameleon
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Jeff Goldblum - I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This
8th Nov 2019
Jeff Goldblum's second album is an enjoyable romp through the standards, with a little help from his star-studded friends.
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Holland / Hussain / Potter - Good Hope
30th Oct 2019
A nuanced meeting of minds - tabla master Zakir Hussain meets bassist Dave Holland and saxophonist Chris Potter for a joyful collaboration that rewards close listening.
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Teddy Wilson
24th Oct 2019
Teddy Wilson was the definitive pianist of the swing era, an artist who appeared on many great recordings from the 1930s through to the 1970s. This week Matt focuses on Wilson's ebullient recordings made after the American recording ban was lifted in 1944.
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Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble
18th Oct 2019
Released 25 years after Officium, Remember Me, My Dear is the final album recorded by saxophonist Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble.
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Remember Me, My Dear
Jan Garbarek The Hilliard Ensemble
