Wynton Kelly plus Don Sleet: Four Classic Albums
Of the post-bop pianists born in the decade after Bud Powell (Kenny Drew, Barry Harris, Sonny Clark et al), Kelly...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2023
Susan Alcorn/José Lencastre/Hernâni Faustino: Manifesto
Hernâni Faustino | José Lencastre | Susan Alcorn
Pedal steel ace Susan Alcorn has single-handedly liberated her instrument from its traditional role in country music, recontextualising it as...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: October/2023
Edward Simon: Femeninas: Songs of Latin American Women
Adam Cruz | Edward Simon | Luis Quintero | Magos Herrera | Reuben Rogers | Romero Lubambo
Venezuelan pianist Edward Simon has a strong attachment to the Great Latin American Songbook. His 2016 trio album, entitled Latin...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2023
Azamiah: In Phases
There’s a load of really interesting jazz coming out of Scotland, and more specifically Glasgow, at the moment. If you...
Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: August/2023
Louise Dodds and Elchin Shirinov: Two Hours After Midnight
Elchin Shirinov | Louise Dodds
Named after the powerful final letter Mary, Queen of Scots wrote to the King of France, her brother-in-law Henri III,...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2023
Aja Monet
Aja Monet is a chronicler, a Brooklyn griot, a freedom fighter with fire in her veins and a way with...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2023
Isaiah Collier: Parallel Universe
Sun Ra, Jimi Hendrix, Cannonball, Weldon Irvine, Nina Simone, Marvin, Aretha, Peter Tosh, J-Dilla, Fela, Miles, Gil. The roll call...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2024
David Duffy Quartet: Where the Branches Begin
David Duffy | Davie Ryan | Emil Nerstrand | Marc Martin | Warren Walker
This debut disc as bandleader from Barcelona-based Irish bassist, composer and producer David Duffy is steeped in widescreen atmospherics –...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2024
Benjamin Koppel: White Buses: Passage To Freedom
An A-list international ensemble led by British saxophonist Benjamin Koppel broaches a timely historic subject: the white buses that carried...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2024
Verneri Pohjola: Monkey Mind
For his fourth album on Edition Records, Finnish trumpeter Verneri Pohjola intended "to approach my own monkey mind and greet...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: February/2024
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