Harriet Riley & Alex Garden: Sonder II
Alex Garden | Harriet Riley | Pete Judge | Stevie Toddler
The Bristol-based BLOOM collective is a network of remarkably open-minded young musicians whose various incarnations include Japanese art-pop, contemporary neo-classical...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: March/2022
Maridalen: Bortenfor
Aleksander Sjølie | Anders Hefre | Andreas Rødland Haga | Emil Brattested | Jonas Kilmark Vemøy
Just as they did on last year’s lovely, self-titled debut, Maridalen again record in a lakeside wooden church in the...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2022
Sam Newsome: The Art Of The Soprano Vol.1
Anyone who has followed Newsome's progress since his emergence in Leon Parker's group in the mid-1990s will know that he...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2013
Louis Stewart: Out On His Own
The virtuoso Irish guitarist Louis Stewart (1944-2016) first released this solo recital on the Irish Livia label in 1977 as...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2023
John Abercrombie: Night
Jack DeJohnette | Jan Hammer | John Abercrombie | Mike Brecker
By 1975, the New York guitarist John Abercrombie was escaping the fusion-virtuoso stereotype he had acquired with Billy Cobham’s band...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2019
Gene Ammons/Sonny Stitt: Blues Up & Down
Charles Williams | Gene Ammons | George Brown | John Houston | Stitt
Any musician interested in developing the noble art of swinging should study the methods of these two legendary saxophone groovers....
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: October/2012
Jeff Herr Corporation: Layer Cake
Jeff Herr | Laurent Payfert | Maxime Bender
The 30-something Luxembourgish drummer Jeff Herr has studied in-depth everything from classical and latin percussion to fusion jazz drumming. On...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2015
Steve Nelson: Brother Under the Sun
Danny Grissett | Lewis Nash | Peter Washington | Steve Nelson
When pianist Mulgrew Miller died of a stroke in 2013, aged 53, he left a legacy of 15 albums as...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: August/2017
Raph Clarkson’s Dissolute Society: This Is How We Grow
It’s disconcerting at first to hear the children’s voices which define this album, a sound associated with the saccharine and...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2022
The Rebecca Kilgore Trio: Vol. 1
US vocalist Kilgore has been around for a while now [she's in her early seventies] and was a favourite presence...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2021
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