Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky
Anja Lechner | Anouar Brahem | Dave Holland | Django Bates
Brahem began this project before the horrors of Gaza unfolded. But it remains a powerful response to the tragedy of...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2025
Ensemble C: Every Journey
Like Yazz Ahmed’s Polyhymnia, which celebrated women of courage, Cope’s Every Journey focuses on the adventuresses, those who travelled into...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2025
Andreas Schaerer: Anthem for No Man’s Land
Andreas Schaerer | Kalle Kalima | Lucas Niggli | Luciano Biondini
Andreas Schaerer is his own immaculate improvisatory creation, uniquely evolved from scat and vocalese into vocal flights equal to the...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2025
Inter-Galactic Research Arkestra: Nuits De La Fondation Maeght
Originally released as two separate LPs in 1971 on Parisian music enthusiast Chantal Darcy’s Shandar label, this enlarged and definitive...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2025
Bugge Wesseltoft: Am Are
A very well-conceived and curated album project that brings together Wesseltoft’s collaborations with a variety of experimental trio combinations, plus...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2025
Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing The Air
New York-based German saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock has been a strong improviser and composer for over 25 years, expressing herself in...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2025
The Simon Spillett Quartet: Up In Town
Alec Dankworth | Pete Cater | Rob Barron | Simon Spillett
Mister PC is Cater’s own label; its debut release featured Spillett’s big band with Cater at the batterie. Now comes...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2025
Buddy Collette and Teddy Edwards Quartets: The Crown Sessions
Tenor star Collette opens here with fellow Central Avenue regular Bill Douglass on drums, his ‘What’s Up’, an uppish riff...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2025
Freddie Hubbard: On Fire: Live at the Blue Morocco
Bennie Maupin | Freddie Hubbard | Freddie Waits | Herbie Lewis | Kenny Barron
Sometimes the hyperbole that surrounds a Resonance release can run away with itself. In one or two instances, the rarity...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2025
Various Artists: Classic Vanguard Small Group Swing Sessions
Mosaic’s carefully curated new set comes with the usual learned commentary (this time by Thomas Cunliffe) and is a wonderful...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2025
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