Black Top Presents: Hamid Drake/Elaine Mitchener/William Parker/Orphy Robinson/Pat Thomas: Some Good News
Elaine Mitchener | Hamid Drake | Orphy Robinson | Pat Thomas | William Parker
Heavyweight UK improvisers Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas conceived Black Top in 2011 as an open-ended duo augmented by a...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2021
Mina Agossi: Fresh
Eric Jacot | Mina Agossi | Phil Reptil | Simon Bernier | Stéphane Guery
Purely in terms of its textural palette, Fresh sees vocalist Mina Agossi's sound-world expanding into adventurous new territories. For many...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2014
Gilberto Gil: Original Album Series
Gilberto Gil is a Brazilian – nay, a world – icon for a reason, and if ever one needed the...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2016
Rempis/Parker/Flaten/Cunningham: Stringers And Struts
Dave Rempis | Hamid Drake | Ingebrigt Håker Flaten | Jeff Parker | Jeremy Cunningham
Jeff Parker is probably still best known for contributing guitar to the intricate, genre-hopping compositions of Chicagoan post-rock group Tortoise...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2021
Szakcsi/Potter/Veal/Carrington: Live at MÜPA
Béla Szakcsi Lakatos | Chris Potter | Reginald Veal | Terri Lyne Carrington
Béla Szakcsi Lakatos is a key figure in Hungarian jazz and his playing is steeped in the percussive dissonance of...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Nicole Johänntgen: Solo II
Last year, hard-working and just as hard-to-pigeonhole Swiss saxophonist Nicole Johänntgen released Henry III, the third instalment of her New...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2022
Chick Corea: The Montreux Years
When Chick Corea's long and productive career was ended in February 2021, he left behind a recorded legacy that the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Veryan Weston, Ingrid Laubrock, Hannah Marshall: Haste
Hannah Marshall | Ingrid Laubrock | Veryan Weston
The sleeve notes of Haste relate this music to ritual and even shamanistic activity. And there is a truth in...
Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: August/2012
John Coltrane: The Complete Ray Draper Sessions
Gil Coggins | John Coltrane | John Mayer | Larry Ritchie | Ray Draper | Spanky DeBrest
Both of these releases would have to be called not only early, but minor, Coltrane. Acrobat, to be fair, describe...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2014
Keith Tippett: The Monk Watches the Eagle
A special BBC recording that captures Tippett's cantata on its debut, at Norwich Cathedral. It's a diverse piece, commissioned for...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2021
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