Native Dancer: At PizzaExpress Live – In London
Dan See | Frida Mariama Touray | Jonathan Harvey | Josh Arcoleo | Sam Crowe
Named after, and taking their inclusive musical aesthetic cue from, Wayne Shorter’s genre-bending 1975 album, Native Dancer draw from a...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2023
Peter Somuah: Letter To The Universe
Ghanaian-born, Amsterdam-based trumpeter Peter Somuah may be one of the first African bandleaders on the German jazz label ACT but...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2023
Alfredo Rodriguez: Coral Way
Famed for his attacking, take-no-prisoners playing style, Cuban-born pianist and composer Alfredo Rodriguez has a back story that has become...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2023
Terri Lyne Carrington: TLC & Friends
Buster Williams | George Coleman | Kenny Barron | Sonny Carrington | Terri Lyne Carrington
Recorded over a single session at the Jimmy Madison Studio, NYC, on 19 October 1981, just a few months after...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2023
Steve Lacy: The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy
Charles Davis | John Ore | Roy Haynes | Steve Lacy
From the second batch of the Candid label’s recent reissue programme, The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy, only his third...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2023
Sonny Clark: The Complete Sonny Clark Blue Note Sessions
The short-lived pianistic genius that was Sonny Clark (1931-63) is perhaps better known for the sessions he made with other...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2023
Woody Shaw: Blackstone Legacy
Bennie Maupin | Clint Houston | Gary Bartz | George Cables | Lenny White | Ron Carter | Woody Shaw
In many ways, Blackstone Legacy, Woody Shaw’s debut release [In The Beginnng, recorded in 1965, wasn’t issued until 1983], is...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2023
Lilja: Mirage
This is an interesting debut, not just from a conceptual point of view, in that Lilja works with “carriers of...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2023
Pat Thomas/Chris Sharkey/Luke Reddin-Williams: Know: Delirium Atom Paths
Chris Sharkey | Luke Reddin-Williams | Pat Thomas
This restless, exploratory, 44-minute improvisation documents the first musical meeting of keyboardist Thomas, guitarist Sharkey and drummer Reddin-Williams, live on...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2023
Maulawi: Orotunds
Maulawi Nururdin | Michael Fuller
A welcome reissue of an item in the catalogue of the iconic Strata label that's rarer than hen's fillings, let...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2023
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