Maria Grapsa Sextet: Life
With a solid grounding in such contemporary ensembles as Tomorrow’s Warriors Female Frontline, Colectiva and the Nu Civilisation Orchestra, and...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: March/2024
Jyoti (Georgia Anne Muldrow): Mama, You Can Bet!
LA-based singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Georgia Anne Muldrow is an original. Under her own name she makes left-field contemporary soul....
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: September/2020
Tori Freestone Trio: El Mar de Nubes
Dave Manington | Tim Giles | Tori Freestone
Tenerife's highlands and sea-of-clouds coastline are spiritual homes for the imaginative British saxophonist Tori Freestone, who took a break there...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2019
Mark Guiliana: Beat Music! Beat Music! Beat Music!
New Jersey-born Guiliana has been brewing his hybrid electro-jazz elixir for the best part of two decades now, and yet...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: June/2019
Ingrid Laubrock/Kris Davis: Blood Moon
The follow-up to saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock's vigorous Kasumi duo album on Intakt with Japanese piano virtuoso Aki Takase is this...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2020
Erroll Garner: In Paris
Eddie Calhoun | Erroll Garner | Kelly Martin
There's a nice tribute from George Shearing in the liner notes to this limited edition reissue of one of Erroll...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2019
Ellery Eskelin Trio: Willisau Live
Ellery Eskelin | Gary Versace | Gerry Hemingway
The sleeve note opens with a rumination on the joys of meandering that takes in Kansas City, copyright laws and...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: November/2016
Melissa Aldana: 12 Stars
Kush Abadey | Lage Lund | Melissa Aldana | Pablo Menares | Sullivan Fortner
It’s a brave move indeed to make a label debut as introspective as Aldana does here, but equally remarkable is...
Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: March/2022
Lonnie Liston-Smith: Visions Of A New World
This album, cut in the slipstream of the iconic Expansions has aged very well, consolidating any claim Smith might want...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2015
David Birchall: Dusk
Conor Chaplin | James Copus | Jason Brown | Tom Cawley
These solo improvisations on nylon-string guitar find David Birchall in a decidedly mellow aspect. Nowhere to be found the cacophonous...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: August/2020
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