Nick Finzer: Dreams, Visions, Illusions
Alex Wintz | Dave Baron | Glenn Zalenski | Jimmy Macbride | Lucas Pino | Nick Finzer
The latest album from trombonist Nick Finzer's established sextet explores the role of the muse through a set of workman-like...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2023
Yusef Lateef: Detroit Latitude 42, Longitude 83
An ode to one of the great black music Meccas in America would, one expects, be nothing less than soulful,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2023
Album Interview: Alina Bzhezhinska and Tony Kofi: Altera Vita
Alina Bzhezhinska | Muriel Grossman | Tony Kofi
Three rings on a singing bowl, and Altera Vita unfurls slowly, languorously, into being, a sonic lotus flower in a...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2024
Cal Tjader: Huracán
After spells with Dave Brubeck and George Shearing, vibraphonist, occasional drummer and bandleader Cal Tjader devoted himself to Latin and...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2024
Shelly Berg: Alegria
Carlitos Del Puerto | Dafnis Prieto | Melvin Butler | Shelly Berg
Pianist Berg has a long association with jazz education in Florida and now splits his time between Miami and Los...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2024
John Coltrane: Giant Steps (60th Anniversary Edition)
I knew someone would eventually jump on this anniversary idea (it's been around in the classical and the wider arts...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2020
Kemuel Roig: Genesis
For this fifth album, and his first jazz recording as a leader, Miami-based Cuban pianist and composer Kemuel Roig casts...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2020
Charlie Byrd: Brazilian Byrd/Hollywood Byrd
Charlie Byrd had kept a low profile before his 1962 Jazz Samba album with Stan Getz, but when his big...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: November/2012
Gil Scott-Heron: Free Will
BGP's ongoing packaging of Scott-Heron's hallowed Flying Dutchman period brings forth a jewel that has perhaps a little less immediate...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2015
Kansas Smitty’s: We’re Not In Kansas Any More
The opening ‘Bokeh’ is an immediate signal that this fifth studio album intends to move a long way from the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2022
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