Review of Maria Grapsa Sextet: Life

Maria Grapsa Sextet: Life

Becca Wilkins | Emma Rawicz | James Owston | Kai Chareunsy | Liam Brennan | Maria Grapsa | Matthew Kilner | Tom Pountney | Tommy Fuller | Torin Davies

Musical Dojo Records/Bandcamp

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Jyoti (Georgia Anne Muldrow): Mama, You Can Bet!

Jyoti (Georgia Anne Muldrow): Mama, You Can Bet!

Georgia Anne Muldrow

eOne/SomeOthaShip Connect

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Tori Freestone Trio: El Mar de Nubes

Tori Freestone Trio: El Mar de Nubes

Dave Manington | Tim Giles | Tori Freestone

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Mark Guiliana: Beat Music! Beat Music! Beat Music!

Mark Guiliana: Beat Music! Beat Music! Beat Music!

BIGYUKI | Chris Morrissey | Cole Whittle | Gretchen Parlato | Jason Lindner | Jef Babko | Jef Taylor | Jonathan Maron | Mark Guiliana | Marley Guiliana

Motéma (CD)

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Ingrid Laubrock/Kris Davis: Blood Moon

Ingrid Laubrock/Kris Davis: Blood Moon

Ingrid Laubrock

Intakt Records

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Erroll Garner: In Paris

Erroll Garner: In Paris

Eddie Calhoun | Erroll Garner | Kelly Martin

Essential Jazz Classics

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Ellery Eskelin Trio: Willisau Live

Ellery Eskelin Trio: Willisau Live

Ellery Eskelin | Gary Versace | Gerry Hemingway

Hatology

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Melissa Aldana: 12 Stars

Melissa Aldana: 12 Stars

Kush Abadey | Lage Lund | Melissa Aldana | Pablo Menares | Sullivan Fortner

Editor's Choice

Blue Note 3882781

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Lonnie Liston-Smith: Visions Of A New World

Lonnie Liston-Smith: Visions Of A New World

Angel Allende | Art Gore | Cecil Bridgewater | Clifford Adams | Dave Hubbard | Donald Smith | Greg Maker | Lawrence Killian | Lonnie Liston-Smith | Michael Carvin

BGP

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of David Birchall: Dusk

David Birchall: Dusk

Conor Chaplin | James Copus | Jason Brown | Tom Cawley

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

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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