Ivan Lins: My Heart Speaks
The album title, My Heart Speaks, is taken from the Lins composition, ‘The Heart Speaks,’ and was recorded on an...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2023
Rob Luft: Dahab Days
Rob Luft is always travelling, and as he travels, he absorbs every kind of music in his path, creating hallucinogenic...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: November/2023
Dudley Phillips: Bassheartmantra
This record will come as a surprise to those who’ve tracked the impressive career of Brit bassist Dudley Phillips, whose...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: February/2018
Wolfgang Muthspiel: Where The River Goes
Ambrose Akinmusire | Brad Mehldau | Eric Harland | Larry Grenadier | Wolfgang Muthspiel
With Rising Grace in 2016, the Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel confirmed his stature on the world stage all the more...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2018
Ridina Ahmedová and Petr Tichý: HLASkontraBAS
The cover of Ridina Ahmedová and Petr Tichý's impeccable, crowd-funded duo debut HLASkontraBAS has an eye peering through a double-bass's...
Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: May/2017
Matt Ridley: The Antidote: Live At The London Jazz Festival
Alex Hitchcock | Ant Law | Marc Michel | Matt Ridley | Tom Hewson
Matt Ridley is a classicist and romantic, steeped in jazz tradition with a taste for beauty. It’s led to regular...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2023
Clare Fischer: Out of the Blue
Before his death in 2012, Clare Fischer managed to pack plenty of musical adventure and achievement into his 83-year, many-storied...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2019
Pat Metheny: Watercolors
Dan Gottlieb | Eberhard Weber | Lyle Mays | Pat Metheny
He looks from the cover, bucktoothed and smiley, hair awry and flares unfeasibly fanned. It’s hard to imagine this is...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2019
Steve Lacy: Stamps
Irene Aebi | Kent Carter | Oliver Johnson | Steve Lacy | Steve Potts
To hear the soprano sax legend’s superlative late 1970s quintet captured in its pomp, live at Willisau and Paris, is...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2018
Ant Law: Entanglement
Ant Law | James Maddren | John Turville | Michael Chillingworth | Tom Farmer
Law stares at you from the cover of his debut CD release with the kind of square-jawed intensity that personifies...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2013
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