Tony Allen: Jazz Is Dead 18
Adrian Younge | Ali-Shaheed Muhammad | Tony Allen
The passing of Tony Allen in 2020 robbed contemporary music of one of its finest rhythm masters. His supreme control...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2023
Andy Emler Megaoctet: No Rush!
Heading into his ninth Megaoctet album in 30 years, why would French pianist/composer Andy Emler be in a hurry? That...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: August/2023
Kjetil Husebø: Years of Ambiguity
Arve Henriksen | Eivind Aarset | Kjetil Husebø
This enigmatically-titled album opens with ‘Inhale’, an all-Norwegian collaboration between composer/producer Kjetil Husebø, guitarist Eivind Aarset and trumpeter Arve Henriksen....
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: August/2023
Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog: Connection
Not as shatter-likely as a ceramic, but pretty shattering to the unsuspecting ear, Connection is Ribot’s fifth free/punk trio recording:...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2023
John Coltrane/Eric Dolphy: Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy
Elvin Jones | Eric Dolphy | John Coltrane | McCoy Tyner | Reggie Workman
There have been some fascinating, and absorbing, discoveries of previously unissued Coltrane material culled from a variety of sources, but...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2023
Ahmad Jamal: Four Classic Albums
Ahmad Jamal | Israel Crosby | Joe Kennedy | Ray Crawford | Vernell Fournier | Walter Perkins
This set of four reissued LPs is predominantly the work of Jamal’s earliest Chicago-based group, the Three Strings, with Crawford...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2023
Gary Brunton: Trên Dydd
Andrea Michelutti | Emil Spányi | François Jeanneau | Gary Brunton | Paul Lay
Burnley-born double bassist Gary Brunton was once entranced by the playing of Jean-Jacques Burnel of The Stranglers, but then decided...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2023
Bokani Dyer: Radio Sechaba
Bokani Dyer has been an important part of the newest wave of South African artists to add to the country’s...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2023
Sunna Gunnlaugs: Becoming
Scott McLemore | Sunna Gunnlaugs | Þorgrímur Jónsson
This is the fifth album from the trio that Icelandic pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs put together some years ago now with...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2023
Richard Jones Trio: Angle Shades
Johnny Hunter | Joshua Cavanagh-Brierley | Richard Jones
The opening moments of this debut recording from a young Mancunian acoustic piano trio sound almost accidental, like walking in...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: June/2023
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