Trevor Watts String Ensemble: Cynosure
If collective free improvisation summons images of furrowed brows and unsmiling aural assaults then stick this platter in your play...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2016
Zoe Rahman: Colour Of Sound
Some two decades after her auspicious debut The Cynic, British pianist Zoe Rahman emphatically fulfils the considerable potential that was...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2023
Avery Sharpe Double Quartet: I Am My Neighbor’s Keeper
In common with many listeners, I discovered Avery Sharpe’s work during his two-decades-plus as bassist with McCoy Tyner, hearing him...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2024
Album Interview: Ian Shaw & Tony Kofi: An Adventurous Dream - The Music Of Billy Strayhorn And Duke Ellington (At Pizza
Barry Green | Dave Green | Ian Shaw | Tony Kofi
It’s fascinating to compare this powerful collaboration, and it is a real double header with Kofi and Shaw sharing credits,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2024
Fergus McCreadie: Sketches
Everybody seems to love Fergus McCreadie, so this EP release of five new solo piano recordings will doubtless find a...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: March/2024
Die Like A Dog: Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler
Hamid Drake | Peter Brötzmann | Toshinori Kondo | William Parker
From his earliest days, the late Peter Brötzmann’s tenor tone was routinely compared to that of Albert Ayler, and there...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2024
Black Artists Group: For Peace And Liberty In Paris Dec 1972
Baikida Carroll | Charles ‘Bobo’ Shaw | Floyd Leflore | Joe Bowie | Oliver Lake
Black Artists Group (BAG) was a pivotal assemblage of African-American musicians that rose to prominence in St Louis in the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2024
Cyro Baptista's Banquet of the Spirits: Caym: Book of Angels Vol. 17
Brian Martsella | Cyro Baptista | Shanir Ezra Blumenkranz | Tim Keiper
New York's Kabbalistically-inclined iconoclast John Zorn wrote the 316 songs that form his Book of Angels in a three-month blaze...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: June/2011
Roswell Rudd and Duck Baker: Live
Here’s a diamond in the rough, small but beautiful. Rudd always gets packaged as the doyen of free improvisers, but,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2022
Charenee Wade: Offering: The Music Of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson
Not for nothing did Christian McBride recently describe singer Wade as “the second coming of Betty Carter”. Hearing the master...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2015
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