Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue: Zero Grasses: Ritual For The Losses
Since her emergence as a vital member of Steve Coleman's bands in the 2010s, vocalist Jen Shyu has gone on...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2021
Heinz Sauer/Michael Wollny: Don't Explain: Live in Concert
Context is all, and from his dynamic collaboration with Eva Kruse and Eric Schaefer in the trio [em] to his...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2013
Marc Cary: Life Lessons
Dan Chmielinski | Diego Joaquin Ramirez | Marc Cary
Marc Cary, the Washington-raised New York pianist and composer, who turned an unusual jazz apprenticeship on DC's funky Go-Go dance...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2021
Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Bobby Kapp: Heptagon
Most jazz musicians worry about where their next album is coming from, but Ivo Perelman isn’t most jazz musicians and,...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018
Ivan Lins: My Heart Speaks
The album title, My Heart Speaks, is taken from the Lins composition, ‘The Heart Speaks,’ and was recorded on an...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2023
Bill Evans Trio: Explorations
Bill Evans | Paul Motian | Scott LaFaro
The second – and final – studio album recorded by the classic Evans/LaFaro/Motian trio, the aptly-named Explorationsis here presented as...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2025
Album Interview: ‘Stonephace’ Stabbins: Transcendental
Crispin ‘Spry’ Robinson | Karl Rasheed-Abel | Larry Stabbins | Pat Illingworth | Zoe Rahman
This could be seen as a mini satellite of the Spatial AKA Orchestra, as it is essentially one of its...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2012
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
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