Reviews

Review of Miles Davis Quintet: Live In Vienna ‘69

Miles Davis Quintet: Live In Vienna ‘69

Jack DeJohnette | Miles Davis | Dave Holland | Chick Corea | Wayne Shorter

1960s Records/Rhythm and Blues

Rating: ★★★

Back in 2013, the second of Sony’s Bootleg Series of Miles Davis box sets, Live in Europe 1969, was released...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2025

Review of Geir Sundstøl: Sakte Film

Geir Sundstøl: Sakte Film

Sunniva Shaw | Erik Sollid | Håkon Brunborg | Jo Berger Myhre | Mats Eilertsen | David Wallumrød | Mari Persen | Hildegun Øiseth | Erland Dahlen | Audun Erlien

Hubro

Geir Sundstøl’s prolific Norwegian career has been expressly cinematic. Seeing him guitar-gunslinging alongside his early Texan collaborator Jimmie Dale Gilmore...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2025

Review of Anna Chandler-King: Why Can I Still See You

Anna Chandler-King: Why Can I Still See You

Sam Quintana | Will Howard | Kel Àlvaro | Anna Chandler-King | Tom Harris | Ellie Whitley | Steve Hanley | Laurence Mason | Riley Stone-Lonergan

Efpi Records

Rating: ★★★★

Anna Chandler-King, newly-established on the jazz circuit and a graduate of the Leeds jazz course (the first in the UK,...

Reviewed by Victoria Kingham in issue: June/2025

Review of Cenk Esen: Endlessly

Cenk Esen: Endlessly

Mcknasty | Leyla Husal | Cenk Esen | Tom Driessler | Aydin Esen | Kristina Rhodes | McKnasty | Lucy-Anne Daniels

XVI Records

Rating: ★★★★

Istanbul-born Cenk Esen is fast building a reputation as a keys-man-about-town in his adopted home of London. His dad, the...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: June/2025

Review of Andrea Rinciari: Soho Sessions

Andrea Rinciari: Soho Sessions

Mark Taylor | Lorenzo Morabito | Alex Garnett | Andrea Rinciari

Andrea Rinciari Recordings/ECN Music

Soho Sessions harks back to a time when Italian-born (but London-minded) guitarist Rinciari and this band were playing regularly in...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2025

Review of Poppy Daniels: Keep On Going

Poppy Daniels: Keep On Going

James Akers | Poppy Daniels | Marysia Osu | Eddie Lee | Tricky | Jed Bevington | Lox | Allexa Nava | Alley Lloyd

Jazz re:freshed

For Poppy Daniels, the phrase “keep on going” is something to live by. This, her debut, self-produced EP, is framed...

Reviewed by Gail Tasker in issue: June/2025

Review of Colosseum: XI

Colosseum: XI

Clem Clempson | Mark Clarke | Ray DeTone | Ana Gracey Hiseman | Nick Steed | Malcolm Mortimer | Kim Nishikawara,

Repertoire Records

Rating: ★★★

Like Soft Machine, the Colosseum train just keeps a-rollin’. But unlike the Softs, the gladiators of jazz rock still retain...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2025

Review of Aarhus Jazz Orchestra & Michael Bladt: Shapeshifter

Aarhus Jazz Orchestra & Michael Bladt: Shapeshifter

Frederik Sakham | Mads Bærentzen | Felix Meyer | Tobias Stavngaard | Niels Jacob Nørgaard | Jeppe Lavsen | Stefan Ringive | Johan Toftegaard Knudsen | Henrik Resen | Lars Søberg

Jaeger Community Music

Danish tenor saxophonist Michael Bladt and his colleagues in the Aarhus Jazz Orchestra salute the funky-expanded sound of Snarky Puppy...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: June/2025

Review of Jon Balke: Skrifum

Jon Balke: Skrifum

Jon Balfe

ECM

Rating: ★★★

Skrifum – which means ‘handwriting’ in Icelandic – is the third in a series of solo albums Norwegian musician Jon...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: June/2025

Review of Webster Young: A Quiet Legend – Live in Saint Louis 1961

Webster Young: A Quiet Legend – Live in Saint Louis 1961

Chauncey Williams | John Mixon | Webster Young | Red Anderson | Freddie Washington | John Chapman | Jodie Christian

Fresh Sound FSR-CD

Trumpeter Young rates an entry in Leonard Feather’s first The Encyclopaedia of Jazz but not in subsequent editions. He’s not...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2025

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