Review of Ivan Lins: My Heart Speaks

Ivan Lins: My Heart Speaks

Carltos Del Puerto | Dianne Reeves | Ivan Lins | Jane Monheit | Josh Nelson | Leo Amuedo | Mauriico Zottarelli | Randy Brecker | Tibilisi Symphony Orchestra | Twanda

Editor's Choice

Resonance

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Rob Luft: Dahab Days

Rob Luft: Dahab Days

Alice Zawadzki | Byron Wallen | Corrie Dick | Joe Webb | Joe Wright | Laura Senior | Lucy Nolan | Peggy Nolan | Rob Luft | Simmy Singh

Editor's Choice

Edition Records

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Dudley Phillips: Bassheartmantra

Dudley Phillips: Bassheartmantra

Dudley Phillips | Ian Thomas

www.dudleyphillips.com

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Wolfgang Muthspiel: Where The River Goes

Wolfgang Muthspiel: Where The River Goes

Ambrose Akinmusire | Brad Mehldau | Eric Harland | Larry Grenadier | Wolfgang Muthspiel

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Ridina Ahmedová and Petr Tichý: HLASkontraBAS

Ridina Ahmedová and Petr Tichý: HLASkontraBAS

Petr Tichý | Ridina Ahmedová

Poli5

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Matt Ridley: The Antidote: Live At The London Jazz Festival

Matt Ridley: The Antidote: Live At The London Jazz Festival

Alex Hitchcock | Ant Law | Marc Michel | Matt Ridley | Tom Hewson

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Clare Fischer: Out of the Blue

Clare Fischer: Out of the Blue

Gene Tyranny | Jane Sharp | Kathy Morton | Lynne Morrow | Maggie Payne | Patrice Manget | Peter Gordon | Steve Bartek

Unseen Worlds

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Pat Metheny: Watercolors

Pat Metheny: Watercolors

Dan Gottlieb | Eberhard Weber | Lyle Mays | Pat Metheny

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Steve Lacy: Stamps

Steve Lacy: Stamps

Irene Aebi | Kent Carter | Oliver Johnson | Steve Lacy | Steve Potts

Corbett vs Dempsey

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Ant Law: Entanglement

Ant Law: Entanglement

Ant Law | James Maddren | John Turville | Michael Chillingworth | Tom Farmer

33Jazz

Rating: ★★★

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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