ACV: Busk
Adrian Tilbrook | Andy Champion | Graeme Wilson | Mark Williams | Paul Edis
Formed in 2009, ACV is the quintet of the young, Tyneside-based jazz musician Andy Champion, a go-to double bassist on...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2013
Julia Biel: Love Letters and Other Missiles
Idris Rahman | Jasper Høiby | Julia Biel | Sebastian Rochford
From the dream-like, minimalist album opener ‘When The Sun Goes In’ which gently ushers you into a sound-world bathed in...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2015
Olga Konkova Trio: Open Secret
Gary Husband | Olga Konkova | Per Mathisen
Russian-born and classically trained, Konkova crossed her personal Rubicon when she went to study at Berklee, met her future husband...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Tribe: Hometown: Detroit Sessions 1990-2014
Djallo Djakate | Harold McKinney | Mbiyu Chui | Pamela Wise | Phil Ranelin | Wendell Harrison
For those who thought that Detroit label/collective Tribe, a jewel in the crown of independent jazz, wound down in the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen: Live Recordings, 2019-2020
Their first CD was a series of minimalistic encounters which may have sat well in a world of diminishing attention...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2021
Kevin Brady: Ensam
Bill Carrothers | Dave Redmond | Kevin Brady | Norma Winstone
You might call this a belated follow- up to Brady’s 2007 Common Ground (LRP) and the 2009 Zeitgeist (Fresh Sound...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2016
Tony Allen: Film of Life
The tenth album from Tony Allen, the Afrobeat drummer labelled ‘legendary’ for both co-creating a musical style with Fela Kuti...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: February/2015
Michael Franks: Original Album Series
If the singer-songwriter Michael Franks hasn't crossed your radar yet, then might I suggest you snap up this excellent 5-CD...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2016
Claire Daly Quintet: 2648 West Grand Boulevard
Claire Daly | Jerome Harris | Mary Ann McSweeney | Peter Grant | Steve Hudson
Arriving as a seeming response to our March reader's letter about Motown, this album (though doubtless recorded earlier) refers in...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2017
Bill Evans: Peace Pieces
An interesting choice, since this wasn't an original album as such. Compiled by the new owners of Riverside after the...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2015
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