Takuya Kuroda: Fly Moon Die Soon
Kobe-born, New York City-based trumpeter Takuya Kuroda is a gifted player who combines jazz, hip hop and contemporary soul with...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: October/2020
Ryan Truesdell: Centennial: Newly Discovered Works of Gil Evans
A fascinating project that exhumes previously unrecorded scores by Evans, for a top-ranking New York personnel. Five of them were...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: October/2012
Daniel Carter/Patrick Holmes/Matthew Putman: Whoadie
Daniel Carter | Matthew Putman | Patrick Holmes
Multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter has been a player on the New York creative music scene since the early 1970s – and...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2020
Evan Parker/Seymour Wright: Tie The Stone To The Wheel
Evan Parker has been playing this kind of music for so long now that he doesn't so much use extended...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2016
Lorraine Baker: Eden
Binker Golding | Liam Noble | Lorraine Baker | Paul Michael
“I have always admired the dance-like quality of [Ed] Blackwell’s playing and his strong sense of melody,” explains drummer, percussionist...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019
Fire!: She Sleeps, She Sleeps
Anderas Werliin | Johan Berthling | Leo Svensson | Mats Gustafsson | Oren Ambarchi
After forming the core of the sprawling 30-piece Fire! Orchestra for the last few years, it seems only fair that...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2016
Manuel Mota & David Grubbs: Lacrau
Ex-Bastro/Gastr del Sol lynchpin David Grubbs is on an exciting run of form. His quietly disarming Failed Celestial Creatures, a...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: October/2018
Stephan Crump/Ingrid Laubrock/Cory Smythe: Channels
Cory Smythe | Ingrid Laubrock | Stephan Crump
Here's an unusual proposition: a leaderless, egalitarian trio of saxophone, bass and piano making delicately poised, spontaneously generated chamber music....
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2019
John McLaughlin/Shankar Mahadevan/Zakir Hussain: Is That So?
John McLaughlin | Shankar Mahadevan | Zakir Hussain
McLaughlin calls this album his “labour of love”. Certainly it is quite unlike anything in his already considerable discography –...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2020
Evan Parker’s Sant’Anna Arresi Quintet: Filu ’e Ferru
Alexander Hawkins | Evan Parker | Hamid Drake | John Edwards | Peter Evans
The Sant’Anna Arresi Quintet was put together for a one-off performance at a festival in Sardinia – as captured on...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2016
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