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
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
Sons of Kemet: Black to the Future
The fourth LP by the Shabaka Hutchings-led ‘super-quartet’ Sons of Kemet comes with a mission statement reinforcing the politics at...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2021
Rickey Kelly: Limited Stops Only
Dadisi Komolafe | David E Tillman | James Leary III | Rickey Kelly | Sherman Ferguson
If ever there was an album aptly titled, it is surely this: Kelly's musical bus (see the cover image) moves...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2021
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
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