Aruan Ortiz/Michael Janisch Quintet: Banned in London – review

(Whirlwind)London-based US bassist Michael Janisch co-led this sharp group with his Cuban pianist friend Aruan Ortiz at at the London jazz festival last year, and this is the resulting live recording, with saxophonist Greg Osby, trumpeter Raynald Colum and drummer Rudy Royston. The playing is world-class, the jam-session atmosphere palpable, recalling the 1960s Time No Changes Miles Davis quintet, and often veering into free jazz, too. Janisch's Precisely Now declares the Davis allegiance throug...

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