Lizz Wright - Garden Of Earthly Delights |
When Lizz Wright debuted with Salt five years ago it was clear even then that the jazz world had found a new unique talent even if the album was ostensibly a strongly gospel-rooted affair. By the time...
Posted by Jazzwise on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:46:00 PST |
Courtney Pine - Out Of Many, One People |
Courtney Pine - Out Of Many, One PeopleCourtney Pine, the key jazz musician of his generation in the UK has formed a new version of the seminal 1980s big band, the Jazz Warriors. Instead of merely rev...
Posted by Jazzwise on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:27:00 PST |
Jazzwise Magazine Albums Of The Year 2007 |
Jazzwise, the UK's biggest selling jazz magazine, is delighted to announce that Empirical by Empirical has been voted the Album of the Year for 2007 by Jazzwise writers. Who could have foretold that w...
Posted by Jazzwise on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:47:00 PST |
Guy Barker - Dark End Of The Street |
Trumpeter Guy Barker has just released his most ambitious album to date, a 2-CD set, inspired by Mozart. Titled The Amadeus Project it grew out of two separate commissions, one instrumental, the other...
Posted by Jazzwise on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 08:42:00 PST |
Polar Bear - Kicking The Senses |
Polar Bear - Kicking The Senses
Polar Bear has been in the vanguard of the new wave of UK jazz groups to emerge over the past five years. Led by drummer Seb Rochford, the band appeals to both jazz a...
Posted by Jazzwise on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:21:00 PST |
Claire Martin - Slowly but surely |
There's a certain style, swagger and above all sassiness about Claire Martin that has endeared her to jazz fans for many years now. Her ability to interpret lyrics while swinging hard has secured her ...
Posted by Jazzwise on Tue, 29 May 2007 09:18:00 PST |
Charles Mingus - Triumph of the Underdog |
Charles Mingus, had he lived, would have been 85 this year. Despite the fact that he is no longer around, his music has an uncanny longevity and his music is more influential today than it has ever be...
Posted by Jazzwise on Tue, 01 May 2007 04:06:00 PST |
Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood - Out of the Tube |
Medeski Martin and Wood, the trio that virtually invented the whole notion of the jam band, have teamed up once again with John Scofield for a joyous open ended Meters-inspired jam Out Louder. Is it a...
Posted by Jazzwise on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:31:00 PST |
Wynton Marsalis - Plantation Polemics |
With his vexed views on the subject of "tradition" Wynton Marsalis has become the epitome of the starchy jazz conservative that many would-be jazz liberals love to hate. Yet is there more to the trump...
Posted by Jazzwise on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 08:28:00 PST |
Michael Brecker - Farewell to a brother |
The jazz world was stunned to learn of the death of Michael Brecker in January. Although he had been ill for some time there were tentative signs of recovery over the past months and Brecker had even ...
Posted by Jazzwise on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:32:00 PST |
