Abdullah Ibrahim: The Song Is My Story
Recorded and filmed last summer, at the home of Fazioli pianos in northern Italy, this is a tantalising rather than...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2015
Donald Fagen: Sunken Condos
Fagen remains as irascible as ever, darkly witty in his lyrics, while that voice and its quirky phrasing remains as...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2013
Marcos Valle & Stacey Kent: Nice to Meet You Ao Vivo
Released to celebrate his half-century as a singer songwriter, this live album recorded in Rio's Miranda concert hall sees the...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2015
Joshua Jaswon: Ribbons
Andy Chapman | Calum Gourlay | Freddie Gavita | George Moore | Joshua Jaswon
With his career seemingly preordained by his name, Jaswon is a young alto saxophonist of rare thoughtfulness and poise. On...
Reviewed by Brian Glasser in issue: June/2015
JC Sanford Orchestra: Views for the Inside
The 12 tracks in this left-field mix of orchestral blast and chamber music subtlety include the waltz ‘Robins in Snow’,...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2014
Beledo: Dreamland Mechanism
Beledo | Cucu Kurnia | Doron Lev | Endang Ramdan | Gary Husband | Lincoln Goines | Tony Steele
Beledo has the kind of virtuosic multi-instrumental skills that leave lesser mortals aghast: so lucky he has in Goines and...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2016
Vyacheslav Ganelin, Alexey Kruglov, Oleg Yudanov: Russian New Music in China: Live In Shenzhen
Alexey Kruglov | Oleg Yudanov | Vyacheslav Ganelin
It all began with a phone call, the cooking of borsch and a mysterious guest with, we are told in...
Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016
Purbayan Chatterjee: Abaad - Unbounded
As its English title suggests, this music heeds no boundaries of genre or geography. Abbad Unbounded has a dizzying reach,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2021
David Binney: The Time Verses
Dan Weiss | David Binney | Eivind Opsvik | Jacob Sacks | Jen Shyu | Shai Golan
The older he gets – and your reviewer is now in his 90th year – the more he worries about...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2017
Erroll Garner: Ready Take One
Ernest McCarty Jr | Erroll Garner | Jimmie Smith | Jose Mangual
There has only been one Erroll Garner in jazz. His style was so distinctive that anybody even thinking of basking...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
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