Review of Charles Mingus: Incarnations

Charles Mingus: Incarnations

Booker Ervin | Britt Woodman | Charles McPherson | Charles Mingus | Dannie Richmond | Eric Dolphy | Jimmy Knepper | Jo Jones | Lonnie Hillyer | Nico Bunick

Candid

Rating: ★★★★

Reviewing the second of the two original Mingus releases on Candid in Jazzwise 289, I found myself requesting the re-release...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2024

Review of Patricia Brennan Septet: Breaking Stretch

Patricia Brennan Septet: Breaking Stretch

Adam O’Farill | Jon Irabagon | Kim Cass | Marcus Gilmore | Mark Shim | Mauricio Herrera | Patricia Brennan

Pyroclastic Records

Rating: ★★★★

Frequently topping jazz media polls in the US since her 2021 solo debut release Maquishti, the young Mexican-born New York...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2024

Review of Kurtis Li: In Bloom

Kurtis Li: In Bloom

Albert Sanz | Dario Di Lecce | David Gadea | Kurtis Li | Mariano Steinberg | Patricia Cordero | Perico Sambeat | Sarah Dowling | Ülker Tümer

Bridge The Gap

Rating: ★★★

London-based guitarist and Berklee alumnus Kurtis Li possesses a formidable array of credentials, yet the mood of his debut album...

Reviewed by Gail Tasker in issue: October/2024

Review of Nicole Mitchell & Ballaké Sissoko : Bamako Chicago Sound System

Nicole Mitchell & Ballaké Sissoko : Bamako Chicago Sound System

Ballaké Sissoko | Fassery Diabaté | Fatim Kouyate | Jeff Parker | Joshua Abrams | Jovia Armstrong | JoVia Armstrong | Mankwe Ndosi | Nicole Mitchell

FPE

Rating: ★★★★

In 2017, American flautist Nicole Mitchell and Malian kora player Ballaké Sissoko assembled a cast of top musicians to record...

Reviewed by Gail Tasker in issue: October/2024

Review of Melinda Sullivan/Larrry Goldings: Big Foot

Melinda Sullivan/Larrry Goldings: Big Foot

CJ Camerieri | Daphne Chen | Karl McComas-Reichl | Larry Goldings | Melinda Sullivan | Sam Gendel | Steve Gadd

Editor's Choice

Colorfield

Rating: ★★★★

Take the title literally. Big Foot is an album of big ideas made by the foot, and other things. Tap...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2024

Review of Transatlantic Trance Map: Marconi's Drift

Transatlantic Trance Map: Marconi's Drift

Alex Ward | Craig Taborn | Evan Parker | Hannah Marshall | Ikue Mori | Mat Manieri | Matthew Wright | Ned Rothenberg | Pat Thomas | Peter Evans

False Walls

Rating: ★★★

Over 15 years Evan Parker and Matthew Wright's electro-acoustic project Trance Map has become ever more ambitious. This event represented...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: October/2024

Review of Horace Tapscott Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra : 60 Years

Horace Tapscott Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra : 60 Years

Adele Sebastian | Arthur Blythe | Dwight Trible | Horace Tapscott | Linda Hill | Phil Ranelin

The Village/Bandcamp

Rating: ★★★★

Sixty years of black history in sound. This is the grand achievement and mission statement of Horace Tapscott’s Pan Afrikan...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2024

Review of Sebastien Ammann: Change of Course

Sebastien Ammann: Change of Course

Caroline Davis | Eric McPherson | John Hébert | Ralph Alessi | Sebastien Ammann

Ropeadope

Rating: ★★★★

The pianist-composer Sebastien Ammann, since arriving in New York in 2008 from his native Switzerland, has assembled a few high-profile...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2024

Review of Sarah Hanahan: Among Giants

Sarah Hanahan: Among Giants

Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts | Marc Cary | Nat Reeves | Sarah Hanahan

Blue Engine Records

Rating: ★★★

Sarah Hanahan is right there in the thick of the NYC mainstream sound, touring internationally with Joe Farnsworth and The...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: August/2024

Review of William Parker/Cooper-Moore/Hamid Drake: Heart Trio

William Parker/Cooper-Moore/Hamid Drake: Heart Trio

Cooper-Moore | Hamid Drake | William Parker

AUM Fidelity

Rating: ★★★★

William Parker is rightly regarded as one of the pre-eminent bass players of our age but, on these two new...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2024

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