Stirrup+6: The Avondale Addition
Here cellist and lynchpin of the Chicago scene, Fred Lonberg-Holm, combines two long-running projects: his trio Stirrup featuring bassist Nick...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2020
Christian McBride & Inside Straight: Live at the Village Vanguard
Carl Allen | Christian McBride | Peter Martin | Steve Wilson | Warren Wolf
McBride sets a good example for contemporary definitions of ‘inside playing’ and ‘straight-ahead feel’. His quintet also contains a cross-section...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2021/2022
The Impossible Gentlemen
Adam Nussbaum | Gwilym Simcock | Mike Walker | Steve Swallow
While this group opens a new chapter in the stylistic evolution of Gwilym Simcock by placing him alongside the rhythm...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2011
Peter Brötzmann & Paal Nilssen-Love: Chicken Shit Bingo
Paal Nilssen-Love | Peter Brötzmann
Reeds hero Peter Brötzmann and powerhouse drummer Paal Nilssen-Love enjoyed a long association – from Nilssen-Love’s tenure in Brötzmann’s Chicago...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2024
Vazesh: Tapestry
Hamed Sadeghi | Jeremy Rose | Lloyd Swanton
Iranian-born, Sydney-based Hamed Sadeghi trained as a Persian classical musician in Tehran and plays the tar, a long-necked lute with...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: December/2024
Eliane Elias: Dance Of Time
Following on from Bossa Nova Stories (2009), Light My Fire (2011), I Thought About You (2013) and Made in Brazil...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2017
Kurt Rosenwinkel: Caipi
All is change chez Kurt Rosenwinkel, aka this jazz generation's Pat Metheny whose ‘music is the sound of the future’...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: April/2017
Wingfeld Reuter Stavi Sirkis: The Stone House
Asaf Sirkis | Mark Wingfeld | Markus Reuter | Yaron Stavi
Wingfield and Reuter share an avid interest in the guitar's technological potential. Wingfield has explored synth-like sounds and micro-tweaked tones...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2017
Bebel Gilberto: Agora
By turns hallucinatory and heart-stoppingly beautiful, Agora is quite unlike anything we’ve heard before from vocalist Gilberto. Produced by her...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2020
Archie Shepp: New York Contemporary Five Vol.2
Archie Shepp | Don Cherry | Don Moore | JC Moses | John Tchicai
A potent reminder, not only of the early days of Shepp (under whose name it was reissued on Delmark in...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: August/2020
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