Ron Carter: Finding The Right Notes
This is the soundtrack album to Peter Schnell's PBS documentary of the same name – first aired in October –...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
The Tubby Hayes Quartet: Free Flight
Mick Pyne | Ron Mathewson | Tony Levin | Tubby Hayes
There was a time when the only representation of Hayes on record was to be found in secondhand vinyl shops...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/2020
John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension: Black Light
Etienne Mbappe | Gary Husband | John McLaughlin | Ranjit Barot
In 2006, McLaughlin released Industrial Zen. Some tracks roared and were a welcome antidote to a lot of tepid jazz-rock...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2015
Terence Blanchard: Absence
As the US emerged from lockdown, the American trumpeter Terence Blanchard fine-tuned the music he was composing for Spike Lee’s...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: October/2021
Ingrid Laubrock: Contemporary Chaos Practices
Ingrid Laubrock, as both an improvising tenor-soprano saxophonist and composer, has gone from strength to strength since moving to New...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019
David Forman: Like A Rainbow
David Forman is a remarkable autodidact, now in his nineties, who for five decades was a full-time Brighton dentist and...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2022
Album Interview: Nikki Iles: Hush
Jeff Williams | Nikki Iles | Rufus Reid
This is a lovely disc from a perennially underrated – though far from unknown – British pianist. Here Nikki Iles...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2012
Euan Burton: Too Much Love
Adam Jackson | Alyn Cosker | Euan Burton | Tom Gibbs
Can you have too much love? Is that a thing? Composer/bassist Euan Burton clearly knew that I (and no doubt...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2015
BukkyLeo: Evolution
Still going strong today, British-Nigerian saxophonist Bukky Leo was our own Pharoah Sanders in the late 1980s. His breakout album...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2016
Fred Hersch: Solo
Recorded live in a small, acoustically resonant Catskills church during the 2014 Windham Chamber Music Festival, this tenth solo release...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2020
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