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 Brubeck Bothers Quartet/Paul English Quartet/Horace Alexander Young / Houston Chamber Choir/Robert Simpson: The Voice of

Brubeck Bothers Quartet/Paul English Quartet/Horace Alexander Young / Houston Chamber Choir/Robert Simpson: The Voice of

19-piece Orchestra | Chris Brubeck | Chuck Lamb | Dan Brubeck | Horace Alexander Young | Houston Chamber Choir | Mike de Micco | Paul English | Rankin Peters | Robert Simpson

Navona Records

Rating: ★★

Alongside his scintillating work in a variety of small groups, Dave Brubeck wrote and performed on a far larger scale,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2025

Review of Kira Kira: Kira Kira Live

Kira Kira: Kira Kira Live

Alister Spence | Natsuki Tamura | Satoko Fujii | Tatsuya Yoshida

Alister Spence Music

Rating: ★★★

There is, it seems, no limit to the energy and fecundity of the great Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii. Now 66,...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2025

Review of Ivo Perelman: Messa Di Voce

Ivo Perelman: Messa Di Voce

Fay Victor | Iva Bittová | Ivo Perelman | Joe Morris | Michael Bisio | Nate Wooley | Ramon Lopez

Mahakala/Bandcamp

Rating: ★★★★

Prolific a recording artist as he is, saxophonist Ivo Perelman has formed a fairly tight circle of collaborators over the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2025

Review of Renee Rosnes: Crossing Paths

Renee Rosnes: Crossing Paths

Adam Cruz | Chico Pinheiro | Chris Potter | Edu Lobo | John Patitucci | Joyce Moreno | Maucha Adnet | Renee Rosnes | Rogério Boccato | Shelley Brown

Smoke Sessions Records

Rating: ★★★

The intersecting paths in this intriguing release from Renee Rosnes are Latin music and jazz, for which she has formed...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2025

Review of Emil Storløkken Åse’s PHØNIX: Intergalloptic Roundtrip

Emil Storløkken Åse’s PHØNIX: Intergalloptic Roundtrip

August Glännestrand | Elias Langseth | Ella Marie Runesdatter Wolden | Emil Storløkken Åse | Hans Ona Gjul | Jakob Leirvik | Jenny Frøysa | Live Sunniva Smidt | Nicolas Leirtrø | Tuva Halse

Sonic Transmissions Records STRCD/LP32

Rating: ★★★

Norwegian guitarist Emil Storløkken Åse’s two previous recordings were abrasive dystopian sci-fi epics, the latest – May 2024’s Electric Cave...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: February/2025

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