Review of New Zion Trio: Fight Against Babylon

New Zion Trio: Fight Against Babylon

Craig Santiago | Jamie Saft | Larry Grenadier

Veal Records

Rating: ★★★★

Keyboardist Jamie Saft's closest associations have been with drummer Bobby Previte as a long-term sideman and John Zorn, a kinship...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2012

Review of Jacques Schwartz-Bart: Soné La-Ka 2 (Odyssey)

Jacques Schwartz-Bart: Soné La-Ka 2 (Odyssey)

Arnaud Dolman | Gregory Privat | Jacques Bartz-Schwartz | Malika Tirolien | Reggie Washington | Sonny Troupé

Enja-Yellowbird

Rating: ★★★★

The French-Jewish-Guadeloupian son of two award-winning author/academic parents, Schwartz-Bart was raised in Guadeloupe, Senegal and Switzerland and encouraged to be...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: May/2021

Review of Brian Landrus: For Now

Brian Landrus: For Now

Billy Hart | Brian Landrus | Drew Gress | Fred Hersch | Jody Redhage-Ferber | Joyce Hammann | Lois Martin | Michael Rodriguez | Sara Caswell

BlueLand Records

Rating: ★★★

Nevada-born Brian Landrus is a specialist in basement-register instruments – baritone sax, bass clarinet, low-end flutes and more – and...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2020

Review of Infinite Spirit Music: Live Without Fear

Infinite Spirit Music: Live Without Fear

‘Light’ Henry Huff | Aye Aton | Ibo | Ka T' Etta Aton | Kahil El Zabar | Mchaka Uba | Soji Adebayo

Jazzman

Rating: ★★★★

Last year's sumptuous Rendell-Carr box set was a jewel in Jazzman's crown, but the leading reissue label and curator of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2019

Review of Eliane Correa & La Revolución Orchestra: Signo de Fuego

Eliane Correa & La Revolución Orchestra: Signo de Fuego

Dani Morales | Dimitris Christopoulos | Edwin Sanz | Eliane Correa | Erik Castillo | Ernesto Marichales | Frank Portuondo | Jannier Rodríguez | Jimmy Martínez | Josbel Figurita

Editor's Choice

Somos Más xxx

Rating: ★★★★

London has long had a bubbling Latin jazz scene. Cuban music, especially, is flourishing, as evidenced by the plethora of...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2022

Review of Christian McBride's New Jawn: Prime

Christian McBride's New Jawn: Prime

Christian McBride | Josh Evans | Marcus Strickland | Nasheet Waits

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★★

Throughout his illustrious 30- year career bassist-bandleader Christian McBride has largely kept his acoustic and electric projects separate but, if...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2023

Review of Ryan Kisor Quintet: Live at Smalls

Ryan Kisor Quintet: Live at Smalls

Frank Lacy | Josh Evans | Kush Abadey | Rashaan Carter | Stacy Dillard | Theo Hill

SmallsLIVE

Rating: ★★★★

On these two late May evenings at Smalls, LCJO trumpeter Ryan Kisor took in a five-piece group of mainly Wynton...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2014

Review of Dopolarians: The Bond

Dopolarians: The Bond

William Parker

Mahakala Music

Rating: ★★★

Garden Party, the 2019 debut album by Dopolarians, featured an almost entirely Southern line-up: the core trio of saxophonist Chad...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2021

Review of Luke Stewart’s Silt Trio: The Bottom

Luke Stewart’s Silt Trio: The Bottom

Brian Settles | Chad Taylor | Luke Stewart

Cuneiform RUNE 487

Rating: ★★★

Washington DC-based bassist Luke Stewart has already amassed a wildly eclectic discography that touches on post-rock, noise, art-punk and more....

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2022

Review of Bill Evans: New Conversations

Bill Evans: New Conversations

Bill Evans

Warner

Rating: ★★★

Evans's third (and final) major encounter with overdubbed keyboards came a long time after 1963's Conversations With Myself and the...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2015

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