Review of Lionel Loueke: Gaia

Lionel Loueke: Gaia

Ferenc Nemeth | Lionel Loueke | Massimo Biolcati

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★★

Since bursting onto the jazz scene in the noughties, the Beninois guitar prodigy has carved a niche as much as...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016

Review of Warren Wolf: Convergence

Warren Wolf: Convergence

Brad Mehldau | Christian McBride | Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | John Scofield | Warren Wolf

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★★

The vibraphonist has some really heavyweight company for this, his third US album, including his boss from the Inside Straight...

Reviewed by Peter Bacon in issue: July/2016

Review of Javon Jackson: Expression

Javon Jackson: Expression

Corcoran Holt | Javon Jackson | McLenty Hunter | Orrin Evans

Smoke Sessions

Rating: ★★★

For whatever reason, Javon Jackson has never really made the A lists of contemporary tenor players. Maybe it's his sound,...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2015

Review of According to the Sound: Prism-a-Ning

According to the Sound: Prism-a-Ning

Adam King | Adam Parry-Davies | Chad Lefkowitz-Brown | Gary Alesbrook | Jake Goldbass | James Carter | James Morton | Mike Rodriguez | Otto Hashmi | Patrick Case

Losen Records

Rating: ★★

Hailing from Birmingham and Bristol respectively, the keyboardist Adam Parry-Davies and guitarist-programmer Patrick Case went through a long, rigorous process...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020

Review of Richie Beirach: Leaving

Richie Beirach: Leaving

Richie Beirach

Jazzline

Rating: ★★★

Now aged 75, pianist Richie Beirach made an album with the same title in 1976, a duo set with reeds...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: May/2023

Review of Conic Rose: Heller Tag

Conic Rose: Heller Tag

Bertram Burkert | Franziska Aller | Johannes Arzberger | Konstantin Döben | Silvan Strauß

Conic Rose

Rating: ★★★★

“Coming from a jazz background,” Berlin trumpeter Konstantin Döben reflects, “I had to work up the courage to write something...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2023

Review of Gabriel Latchin Trio: Viewpoint

Gabriel Latchin Trio: Viewpoint

Gabriel Latchin | Jeremy Brown | Joe Farnsworth

Alys Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

Pianist Latchin has been around for a while now and remains one of our most consistently rewarding players. This is...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2023

Review of US4: My Scandinavian Blues (A Tribute to Horace Parlan)

US4: My Scandinavian Blues (A Tribute to Horace Parlan)

Adam Nussbaum | Horace Parlan | Jimmi Roger Pedersen | Sinne Eeg | Thomas Clausen | Tomas Franck

Stunt

Rating: ★★★

This international venture, recorded in Denmark and filmed by a German company, celebrates the music of Horace Parlan. The colleague...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2016

Review of Nels Cline & Julian Lage: Room

Nels Cline & Julian Lage: Room

Julian Lage | Nels Cline

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★

Cline has helped bring improvisatory fire to Wilco, one of the finest US rock bands extant, while maintaining his jazz...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2015

Review of Roamer: Lost Bees

Roamer: Lost Bees

Lauren Kinsella | Matthew Halpin | Matthew Jacobson | Simon Jermyn

Diatribe Records

Rating: ★★★★

Roamer are an improvising Irish quartet who reside in Berlin, Brooklyn, London and Dublin; and they make a point of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2022

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