Review of Jean-Marie Machado & Danzas: Cantos Brujos

Jean-Marie Machado & Danzas: Cantos Brujos

Cécile Grassi | Cécile Grenier | Didier Ithursarry | Élodie Pasquier | François Thuillier | Guillaume Martigne | Jean-Charles Richard | Jean-Marie Machado | Karine Sérafin | Stéphane Guillaume

La Buissonne

Rating: ★★★

The Spanish composer Manuel de Falla's early 20th-century work El amor brujo made an important contribution to Miles Davis’ Sketches...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2023

Review of Pat Metheny: Dreambox

Pat Metheny: Dreambox

Pat Metheny

BMG

Rating: ★★★★

Although this is a ‘solo’ guitar recording, there are several Pat Methenys at work on here. The first Pat Metheny...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2023

Review of Kenny Barron/Buster Williams: The Complete Two As One

Kenny Barron/Buster Williams: The Complete Two As One

Buster Williams | Kenny Barron

Red Records

Rating: ★★★★

These sessions, gathered together for the first time in this limited-edition (on vinyl at least) set, were recorded at the...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2023

Review of Henry Franklin: Tribal Dance

Henry Franklin: Tribal Dance

Al Hall Jr | Charles Owens | Dwight Dickerson | Henry Franklin | Jerry Rush | Kenneth Climax | Sonship

Catalyst/Real Gone Music

Rating: ★★★★

Something of a living legend (he's still playing at age 82, and released a Jazz Is Dead album last year),...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2023

Review of Max Roach: members, don’t git weary.

Max Roach: members, don’t git weary.

Andy Bey | Charles Tolliver | Gary Bartz | Jymie Merrit | Max Roach | Stanley Cowell

Editor's Choice

Atlantic/Arc Records

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded and released in the wake of America's post MLK/RFK assassination turmoil and its increasingly fraught intervention in Vietnam, members…...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2023

Review of Gene Krupa: Drummin’ Man: Hits and Classic Recordings 1938-50

Gene Krupa: Drummin’ Man: Hits and Classic Recordings 1938-50

Adrian Tel | Al Beck | Al Hall | Al Jordan | Al Sherman | Andy Pino | Anita O’Day | Babe Wagner | Ben Feman | Biddy Bastien

Acrobat

Rating: ★★★

In common with other recent Acrobat collections, this 2-CD set selects its repertoire at least partly on the popularity of...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2023

Review of Pharoah Sanders: Pharoah

Pharoah Sanders: Pharoah

Bedria Sanders | Clifford Jarvis | Clifton ‘Jiggs’ Chase | Greg Bandy | Hayes Burnett | Khalid Moss | Lawrence Killian | Pharoah Sanders | Steve Neil | Tisziji Muñoz

Editor's Choice

Luaka Bop

Rating: ★★★★

This long-out-of-print (and oft-bootlegged) jewel from US saxophonist and composer Pharoah Sanders is a record that has attained legendary status...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: October/2023

Review of Laila Biali: Your Requests

Laila Biali: Your Requests

Caity Gyorgy | Emilie-Claire Barlow | George Koller | Kurt Elling | Laila Biali | Larnell Lewis

Editor's Choice

ACT

Rating: ★★★★

This third album on ACT by the exceptionally talented, Vancouver-born vocalist, pianist, and songwriter Laila Biali, showcases a remarkable collection...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2023

Review of Greg Foat and Gigi Masin: Dolphin

Greg Foat and Gigi Masin: Dolphin

Gigi Masin | Greg Foat | Moses Boyd | Siobhan Cosgrove | Tom Herbert

Strut

Rating: ★★★

Greg Foat has enjoyed a long and fascinating career, in which the boundaries between jazz, rock, fusion and other less-categorisable...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: July/2023

Review of Louis Hayes: Exactly Right!

Louis Hayes: Exactly Right!

Abraham Burton | David Hazeltine | Dezron Douglas | Louis Hayes | Steve Nelson

Editor's Choice

Savant

Rating: ★★★★

Born in 1937 and still going strong, Hayes was named an NEA Jazz Master this year; this seen by some,...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2023

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