Album Interview: Sam Crowe Group: Towards the Centre of Everything
With his remarkably assured debut Synaesthesia in 2011, the London-based pianist Sam Crowe looked like a young man with a...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013
Album Interview: Led Bib: It's Morning
Led Bib's sixth album, Umbrella Weather, rejuvenated a band set to quit rather than settle for half-measures. It's Morning sails...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2019
Al Foster: Reflections
Al Foster | Chris Potter | Kevin Hays | Nicholas Payton | Vincente Archer
The highly experienced Foster (born 1944)is a veteran now, and used this session to associate with players from the next...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2022
Polar Bear: Same As You
Polar Bear's sixth album is the most emotionally engaging music I've heard from them. Though recorded in London, Seb Rochford's...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2015
Cécile McLorin Salvant: Dreams And Daggers
Aron Diehl | Cécile McLorin Salvant | Lawrence Leathers | Paul Sikivie
As she showed on her auspicious 2010 release WomanChild, the singer is really not one to shirk a challenge. In...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2017
Grateful Dead: Cornell 5/8/77
For tape collectors and completists, this here live extravaganza from Barton Hall, Cornell University in Ithica, NY has a hallowed...
Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: July/2017
Eyes of a Blue Dog: Hamartia
Elisabeth Nygaard | Fyfe Dangerfi eld | Rory Simmons | Terje Evensen
The Anglo-Norwegian trio Eyes of a Blue Dog returns with a new recording following their superb debut release Rise in...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2015
The Chick Corea + Steve Gadd Band: Chinese Butterfly
Chick Corea and Steve Gadd have history. In 1965, Corea briefly joined Chuck Mangione's band when Gadd was the drummer...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2018
Shobaleader One: Elektrac
Do you know Squarepusher? This is a question anyone who's followed the mercurial multi-instrumentalist, aka Tom Jenkinson, for the last...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: May/2017
Fini Bearman: Burn The Boat
Conor Chaplin | Dave Hamblett | Fini Bearman | Matt Robinson | Nick Costley-White | Robin Mallarkey
Having impressed with her 2011 debut Step Up and her 2014 reworkings of classic Gershwin material on Porgy & Bess,...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2016
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