Jack Magnet Science: Future Forecast
You really want to like this album. After all, there are foremost fusioneers on board, like Peter Erskine (Weather Report)...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2024
Jan Lundgren & Yamandu Costa: Inner Spirits
North meets South on this warmly restrained, coolly passionate album from Sweden’s Jan Lundgren and Brazil’s Yamandu Costa, who first...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2024
Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin
Marking the centenary of James Baldwin’s birth, Meshell Ndegeocello’s latest album for Blue Note, following 2023’s stellar Omnichord Real Book,...
Reviewed by Ammar Kalia in issue: September/2024
John Williamson: The Northern Sea
Alex Hitchcock | Alex Wilson | Immy Churchill | Jay Davis | John Williamson | Jonny Mansfield
Hell, if you’re a bass player, why not start your solo album with a bass solo? After all, contrary to...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: September/2024
Die Like A Dog: Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler
Hamid Drake | Peter Brötzmann | Toshinori Kondo | William Parker
From his earliest days, the late Peter Brötzmann’s tenor tone was routinely compared to that of Albert Ayler, and there...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2024
Loz Speyer’s Inner Space: Live In Leipzig
Dee Byrne | Gary Willcox | Larry Bartley | Loz Speyer | Xhosa Cole
To judge by this live outing, it must be fun to be in Loz Speyer’s band. It’s the third time...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: September/2024
Tigran Hamasyan: The Bird of a Thousand Voices
Areni Agbabian | Marc Karapetian | Nate Wood | Tigran Hamasyan
One of the few authentically original 21st century jazz phenomena, the award-winning Armenian-born pianist-composer known simply as Tigran has, over...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2024
Ross Lorraine: Songs of Ross Lorraine: More from the Heart
As the title suggests, this is Lorraine's follow up to the splendid Heart of Mine. The cast isn’t so obviously...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2024
Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Aloft
For their ninth album together, these two prolific Japanese jazz giants continue their almost telepathic musical rapport while also providing...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2024
Black Artists Group: For Peace And Liberty In Paris Dec 1972
Baikida Carroll | Charles ‘Bobo’ Shaw | Floyd Leflore | Joe Bowie | Oliver Lake
Black Artists Group (BAG) was a pivotal assemblage of African-American musicians that rose to prominence in St Louis in the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2024
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