Ramsey Lewis: Funky Serenity/Salongo
Lewis’ early and mid-1970s work regularly cops the charge of style over substance, but some, especially those weaned on hip...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2012
Wayne Horvitz: The Snowghost Sessions
Eric Eagle | Geof Harper | Wayne Horvitz
Like his former playing partner and fellow concept-bender John Zorn, the Seattle-based player/composer Wayne Horvitz has walked a creative line...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2019
Freddie Hubbard: High Energy
Freddie fusion is frankly a difficult proposition for a lot of jazz fans, and this three-album-on-two CD-set may make the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2012
Vijay Iyer: Mutations
Kivie Cahn-Lipman | Kyle Armbrust | Michi Wiancko | Miranda Cuckson | Vijay Iyer
Iyer's first recorded work with strings places him in a very different setting to previous albums that range from quartet...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2014
Billie Bottle’s Temple of Shibboleth
The ‘Lockdown Years’ generated much intriguing music, not the least Tori Freestone and Alcyona Mick’s sumptuous Make One Little Room...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2023
Brand X: Nuclear Burn
Brand X will always be held in affection by gentlemen of a certain era, surviving as they did endless personnel...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2015
Birmingham Jazz Orchestra: Burns
Here's a set of five compositions by Edinburgh-born now Birminghambased composer Sean Gibbs all inspired by the poetry of Robert...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2015
Arthur Blythe: Elaborations/Light Blue/Put Sunshine In It
The recent reissue of Blythe's mid-1970s output included the classic Illusions, and this batch of three reminds us that he...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2017
Miles Davis
Of these three Miles Davis albums, the 2-CD from Storyville must be seen as the most valuable because of the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2012
The Cliffs featuring Winston Mankunku Ngozi: Alex Express
These three recordings come from the mid-1970s, a bleak time in the evolution of South African jazz. Black cultural life...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2024
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