Review of Jack Magnet Science: Future Forecast

Jack Magnet Science: Future Forecast

Ari Bragi Karason | DISA | Egil Olafssonl | Einar Scheving | Eythor Gunnarsson | Gudmundur Petursson | Jakob Magnusson | Joel Palsson | Matthew Garrison | Peter Erskine

FLOKI Studios

Rating: ★★

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

Review of Jan Lundgren & Yamandu Costa: Inner Spirits

Jan Lundgren & Yamandu Costa: Inner Spirits

Jan Lundgren | Yamandu Costa

ACT

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin

Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin

Abe Rounds | Chris Bruce | Hilton Als | Jake Sherman | Jebin Bruni | Josh Johnson | Julius Rodriguez | Justin Hicks | Kenita Miller | Meshell Ndegeocello

Editor's Choice

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of John Williamson: The Northern Sea

John Williamson: The Northern Sea

Alex Hitchcock | Alex Wilson | Immy Churchill | Jay Davis | John Williamson | Jonny Mansfield

Editor's Choice

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Die Like A Dog: Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler

Die Like A Dog: Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler

Hamid Drake | Peter Brötzmann | Toshinori Kondo | William Parker

Cien Fuegos

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Loz Speyer’s Inner Space: Live In Leipzig

Loz Speyer’s Inner Space: Live In Leipzig

Dee Byrne | Gary Willcox | Larry Bartley | Loz Speyer | Xhosa Cole

Spherical

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Tigran Hamasyan: The Bird of a Thousand Voices

Tigran Hamasyan: The Bird of a Thousand Voices

Areni Agbabian | Marc Karapetian | Nate Wood | Tigran Hamasyan

Naïve Records

Rating: ★★

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

Review of Ross Lorraine: Songs of Ross Lorraine: More from the Heart

Ross Lorraine: Songs of Ross Lorraine: More from the Heart

Charlie Wood | Christine Tobin | Claire Martin | Iain Mackenzie | Ian Thomas | Irene Serra | James Macmillan | Joanna Eden | Joe Giddey | Laurence Cottle

Ross Lorraine Records

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Aloft

Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Aloft

Natsuki Tamura | Satoko Fujii

Libra Records

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Black Artists Group: For Peace And Liberty In Paris Dec 1972

Black Artists Group: For Peace And Liberty In Paris Dec 1972

Baikida Carroll | Charles ‘Bobo’ Shaw | Floyd Leflore | Joe Bowie | Oliver Lake

We Want Sounds

Rating: ★★★★

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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