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Various Artists: All Night Jazz
by Ian Nicolson
You can buy Linn Products hi-fi from Glasgow to Bombay to Tokyo, and a lot of people do. I wonder how many realise that the same company has a kid sister operation called Linn Records that believes in the same Grails: quality, precision and musicality. And one more at least - that Scottish talent is the ...
Los Amigos Invisibles: The New Sound Of The Venezualen Gozadera
by Ian Nicolson
This distinctly funky, danceable and sometimes entertainingly rowdy crew from Caracas pick up from where the Acid Jazz scene left off. There's also plenty of that ironic, loungecore, almost Las Vegas cabaret feel kicking in here. If you can imagine a hybrid of Donald Fagen and Tito Puente produced by Kid Creole and all his Coconuts ...
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers: Africaine
by Ian Nicolson
Many fans with tuned-in ears rate Blakey and Blue Note as the ultimate in Jazz talent-spotting - and his Jazz Messengers were their Academy of Excellence. Lee Morgan, Cedar Walton, Wayne Shorter, Feddie Hubbard, Hank Mobley, Curtis Fuller, Horace Silver and Bobby Timmons all became Messengers, in front of one of the presiding geniuses of hard ...
Claire Martin: Take My Heart
by Ian Nicolson
Sensational young London-born jazz / folk singer Martin has built an enviable international reputation with her five Linn albums to date. Every date or session has revealed her catholic taste in songwriters, unwillingness to be categorised, and an exceptional ability to breathe personality into both unexpected and familiar tunes - all underpinned by the wit and ...
Various Artists: Town Hall Concert
by Ian Nicolson
Does the world need another recorded version of Cataloupe Island? Slip this reissue of the 1985 Blue Note relaunch into your player and, with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and the inimitable Tony Williams kicking as the rhythm section, the occasion is one of such joyful reunion the answer is plain.Founded by the evening's guest ...
Sphere: Sphere
by Ian Nicolson
Back in February 1982, when ex-Monk sidemen Charlie Rouse and drummer Ben Riley began the sessions for the first album by Sphere - intended as an homage to the then reclusive Thelonius' genius - they were yet to learn that he had died that same morning. Joined by pianist Kenny Barron and drummer Buster Williams from ...
Moses Taiwa Molelekwa: Genes And Spirits
by Ian Nicolson
One of the delights of reviewing jazz these days is that there's so much cross-fertilisation going on: Africa is still injecting new rhythms, instruments and structures into the mainline; Asia is producing astonishing technicians who play with respect for their own traditions and true soul as well; and as for Latin America... well, if all the ...
Carla Bley: Fancy Chamber Music
by Ian Nicolson
Carla Bley is sixty this year. Which factoid seems so far beyond the range of the probable that it's worth repeating to myself every time I listen to her astonishing compositions and equally astonishing ensembles. Bley's latest set, with the eight-piece band she named after the new recording (which did come first, chicken or...?), is as ...
Andy Sheppard: Learning To Wave
by Ian Nicolson
With Courtney Pine, British saxophonist Sheppard has been rated world class for long enough to get bored with the tag. This year his new quintet sound uses tablas and percussion in place of a conventional drumkit to realise tunes that Sheppard wrote on guitar for the first time. As a result there's an extra punch and ...
Various Artists: Blue Bossa - Cool Cuts From The Tropics vol 2
by Ian Nicolson
Baby, it's warm inside... and even if every artist featured on this latest revealing compilation drawn from Blue Note's influential Fifties and Sixties catalogues is a Norteno from several frontiers up toward the cold, there's a wealth of fine beach blanket bossa here. And because the Blue Note roster could boast the finest - and sharpest ...
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