Simon Toldam Trio: Sunshine Sunshine or Green as Grass
Knut Finsrud | Nils Davidsen | Simon Todlam
Recorded live in the Kind of Blue café in Copenhagen on an upright piano last year, Toldam (born in 1979)...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2012
Jon Corbett's Dangerous Musics: Kongens Gade
Jon Cortett | Louis Moholo-Moholo | Nick Stephens
Jon Corbett is a name one knows from any number of other associations – LJCO, John Stevens, Dudu Pukwana –...
Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012
Barbara Thompson’s Paraphernalia: The Last Fandango
Barbara Thompson | Billy Thompson | Dave Ball | Jon Hiseman | Peter Lemer
Thompson would only want her music judged on its merits but to not acknowledge her extraordinary story would be perverse....
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2016
Enrico Rava Quartet with Gianluca Petrella: Wild Dance
Enrico Morello | Enrico Rava | Francesco Diodati | Gabriele Evangelista | Gianluca Petrella
Rava, now into his fourth quartercentury, continues to go from strength to strength and, after a period on ECM in...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2015
OWL Trio: Owl Trio
Lage Lund | Orlando Le Fleming | Orlando le Fleming | Will Vinson
Take the first letter of these musicians’ forenames, place them in reverse order and you get OWL, a combination of...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: September/2013
China Moses & Raphaël Lemonnier: This One's For Dinah
China Moses | Fabien Marcoz | Jean-Pierre Derouard | Raphaël Lemonnier
The danger with any tribute album is that the dedicatee's personality and stature simply overwhelm the project. Happily, there's absolutely...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2010
Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto: Love, Love
Quite simply the funkiest thing ECM has ever released. Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto was, along with Bennie Maupin, the Herbie...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2019
Seckou Keita: 22 Strings
From the first glorious tumble of notes on ‘The Path of Gabou’, a track about a son's search for his...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2015
Bob James and David Sanborn: Quartette Humaine
Bob James | David Sanborn | James Genus | Steve Gadd
Recorded a week after Dave Brubeck’s death, Quartette Humaine is ostensibly a tribute to the late pianist. But it’s a...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2013
Dunmall/Noble/Edwards/Sanders: Chords of Connections
John Edwards | Liam Noble | Mark Sanders | Paul Dunmall
Quite a line-up, this one. Noble, who has worked with Ingrid Laubrock, Julian Siegel, Mary Halvorson, Evan Parker and Shabaka...
Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: April/2017
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