Nigel Jarrett, Author at Jazz Journal

Reviewed: Jenna Cave | Ron Ledoux | Gregory Privat

Nigel Jarrett — Fri, 23 May 2025 18:44:52 +0000

Jenna Cave Sextet: Grief, Hope, Love (ABC Jazz ABC J0033D) Australian jazz composer Jenna Cave identifies the concept of “grief literacy”, which might be defined as the means of giving voice to heartbreak and distress resulting from the death of someone close. In 2022, aged 38, she became a single parent to her three-year-old daughter […]

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Count Me In… 05/25

Nigel Jarrett — Mon, 12 May 2025 09:05:51 +0000

In 2024, having spluttered speechlessly at the non-jazz headline acts of major jazz festivals for several years, I came across Montreux and its 58th manifestation. Its promoters boasted it would “span all genres”. All genres of what? With a line-up that included Alice Cooper, P J Harvey, Kraftwerk, Soft Cell, Duran Duran, Sting and Massive […]

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Reviewed: The Third Stream Quartet | Magnus Bakken | Hiromi | Mike Majkowski

Nigel Jarrett — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 11:23:41 +0000

The Third Stream Quartet: Déja Vu (Jersika Records JRA 027-001-1000) Most of the records made by Latvian company Jersika, the jazz and improvised-music label founded by Mareks Ameriks in 2017, are made completely analogue and eventually cut directly to lacquer. But even those that go through the digital process are, the company says, carefully mastered […]

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Reviewed: Immanuel Wilkins | Dan Siegel | Jim Witzel Quartet | Max Santner

Nigel Jarrett — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 11:26:56 +0000

Immanuel Wilkins: Blues Blood (Blue Note CD 6555203; LP 6555204) Saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins’s third album for Blue Note is a big departure for him. As a concept, it’s played out on a broad canvas that encircles and and engages with black historicity. It might have been just angry. In jazz terms that would have been […]

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Reviewed: Veronika Harcsa, Anastasia Razvalyaeva, Bálint Bolcsó | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Glen Manby, John Gibbon Trio | Sue McCreeth | Joe Baione

Nigel Jarrett — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 11:46:09 +0000

Veronika Harcsa, Anastasia Razvalyaeva, Bálint Bolcsó: Schubert Now! (BMC Records, BMC CD3298) Jazz has often courted so-called “classical” music, initially perhaps to gain respectability by association but latterly in the hope that something different or revelatory will emerge. An album of 11 Schubert lieder is performed here by a trio whose classical music component is […]

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Jazz In The New Millennium – Live & Well

Nigel Jarrett — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:54:39 +0000

An author bold enough to decide on the most significant individuals and happenings in his zone of interest and write a book about them might be thought vindicated, to his own satisfaction at least, by a decision to update it. That’s to say, it’s a moveable feast. Rick Mitchell’s Jazz In The New Millennium – […]

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Reviewed: MTB (Mehldau, Turner, Bernstein) | Elephant9 with Terje Rypdal

Nigel Jarrett — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:09:13 +0000

MTB: Solid Jackson (Criss Cross Jazz Criss 1423 CD) There’s an element of reassembly on this album. The MTB trio (pianist Brad Mehldau, tenor saxophonist Mark Turner and guitarist Peter Bernstein) is joined by bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Bill Stewart to replicate, almost, the quintet on the album Consenting Adults, recorded in 1994 by […]

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Count Me In… 12/24

Nigel Jarrett — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 12:26:47 +0000

When Robert Johnson decided to “dust his broom” in 1936, he had embarked on what today might be described as stalking. Like a lot of other male-orientated blues lyrics, his indicate how he’d been mistreated by a woman and was determined to phone her, write to her, or otherwise contact the “no good doney” wherever […]

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Ursula Harrison: ‘I usually avoid labelling myself as a jazz musician’

Nigel Jarrett — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 10:16:23 +0000

Bassist and composer Ursula Harrison, winner of BBC Young Jazz Musician 2024, didn’t have to cast widely for an influential exemplar: her mum, bassist Paula Gardiner, founder of the jazz course at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, was on hand. But where the mother might cherish a definition of jazz with sturdy […]

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Reviewed: Dusko Goykovich | Olivier Robin | Matt Panayides | Mark Masters | John-Paul Muir

Nigel Jarrett — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 13:40:49 +0000

All but two of the charts on Doo’s Blues, the Dusko Goykovich album I review below, are by the Serbian trumpeter himself, including the most unlikely jazz title ever, The Wedding March Of Alexander The Macedonian. It’s worth noting Goykovich’s contribution – he died last year – to the still hazily differentiated category of European […]

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