Review of Tom Skinner: Voices Of Bishara Live at mu

Tom Skinner: Voices Of Bishara Live at mu

Chelsea Carmichael | Kareem Dayes | Robert Stillman | Tom Herbert | Tom Skinner

International Anthem

Rating: ★★★

Tom Skinner has established a considerable reputation as the go-to guy for projects that skirt the experimental fringes of jazz...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: July/2024

Review of Julius Rodriguez: Evergreen

Julius Rodriguez: Evergreen

Alonzo Demetrius | Brian Richburg | Chris Lewis | Declan Miers | Emilio Modeste | Georgia Anne Muldrow | Jay Adlher | Jermaine Paul | Julius Rodriguez | Keyon Harrold

Verve

Rating: ★★★★

Drummer, pianist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and (since he’s still only 25) wunderkind Julius Rodriguez has spent several years as a...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2024

Review of Harold Land: Choma (Burn)

Harold Land: Choma (Burn)

Bill Henderson | Bobby Hutcherson | Harold Land | Harold Land Jr | Ndugu | Reggie Johnson | Woody Theus

We Want Sounds

Rating: ★★★

By the time this came to be made, Harold Land’s rapid rise to national attention with Clifford Brown and Max...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2024

Review of Doncaster Jazz Alumni: 50 Years

Doncaster Jazz Alumni: 50 Years

Al Wood | Andy Vintner | Cat Miles | Chris Groves | Colin Latimer | Damian Bell | Dan Jones | Dean Nixon | Ellie Smith | Gareth Smith

Editor's Choice

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

Consider this remarkable double-CD as a kind of festschrift (or a sort of ‘commemorative document’ as the dictionary has it)...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2024

Review of Fran & Flora: Precious Collection

Fran & Flora: Precious Collection

Flora Curzon | Francesca Ter-Berg | Simon Roth | Ursula Russell

Hidden Notes Records

Rating: ★★★★

The annual Hidden Notes festival of contemporary and avant garde music sits well with the Cotswold market town of Stroud’s...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: April/2024

Review of Flo and The Murmurs: The Waves

Flo and The Murmurs: The Waves

Bernardette Köbele | Elodie Théry | Marie-Florence Burki | Paula Hsu | Snejana Prodanova | Sofia de Falco

Editor's Choice

La Buissonne

Rating: ★★★★

This bold and unusual debut recording features a string quartet and the pellucid voice of Marie-Florence Burki, who also wrote...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: April/2024

Review of Kjetil Mulelid: Agoja

Kjetil Mulelid: Agoja

Andreas Winther | Arve Henriksen | Bárður Reinert Poulsen | Kjetil Mulelid | Lars Horntveth | Lyder Røed | Martin Myhre Olsen | Mathias Eick | Sasha Berliner | Selma French

Editor's Choice

Odin

Rating: ★★★★

Norway’s jazz scene often sits happily out on its own limb – the native sound palette swirling with folkloric flourishes...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: April/2024

Review of Otis Sandsjö: Y-OTIS TRE

Otis Sandsjö: Y-OTIS TRE

Dan Nicholls | Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø | Jamie Peet | Kathrin Pechlof | Lukas König | Otis Sandsjö | Petter Eldh | Tilo Weber

We Jazz Records

Rating: ★★★

Saxophonist Otis Sandsjö, fellow Swede (and bass player) Petter Eldh and UK keyboard player Dan Nicholls make up the core...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: April/2024

Review of Kenny Barron: Beyond this Place

Kenny Barron: Beyond this Place

Immanuel Wilkins | Johnathan Blake | Kenny Barron | Kiyoshi Kitagawa | Steve Nelson

Editor's Choice

Artwork Records

Rating: ★★★★

From the late 1950s, when he was a teenager barely out of high school, Kenny Barron was good enough to...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2024

Review of Neil Cowley Trio: Entity

Neil Cowley Trio: Entity

Evan Jenkins | Neil Cowley | Rex Horan

Editor's Choice

Hide Inside Records

Rating: ★★★★

Is it really seven years since the last Cowley Trio release? Well, you can finally scratch that itch, because they’re...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2024

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