Leo Genovese: Ritual
Demian Cabaud | Jeff Williams | Leo Genovese | Nadia Larcher
Leo Genovese’s second album on the Brooklyn-based independent label 577 Records, which celebrates its twenty-first anniversary this year, displays a...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2022
Booker Ervin: The Good Book: The Early Years 1960-62
Ervin is scarcely remembered these days except by fans of Mingus, and possibly of mid-1960s Randy Weston, but those who...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2018
Kate Westbrook and Mike Westbrook: The Serpent Hit
Andy Tweed | Chris Biscoe | Chris Caldwell | Karen Street | Kate Westbrook | Simon Pearson
Nothing if not ambitious, The Serpent Hit finds the Westbrooks addressing the tiny matter of The Fall of Humankind. The...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2013
Booker Ervin & Horace Parlan: Complete 4tet/5tet/6tet Recordings
Anyone familiar with Mingus Ah Um, Blues And Roots, Jazz Portraits/Alice In Wonderland and Oh Yeah! can't fail to have...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2016
Fred Frith Trio: Another Day in Fucking Paradise
Fred Frith | Jason Hoopes | Jordan Glenn
Frith remains the most splendidly bloody-minded of innovators. Another Day…, perhaps thankfully, has little to do with Phil Collins, but...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2016
Joe Locke: Subtle Disguise
The 59-year-old New York-based vibraphonist Joe Locke is not a musician that’s ever on-trend or part of a so-called cutting-edge,...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Feb/2019
Schlippenbach Quartet: Three Nails Left
Alex Schlippenbach | Evan Parker | Paul Lovens | Peter Kowald
Issued originally on FMP back in 1975, Three Nails Left is a pioneering document of European free improvisation – a...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: December/2020
Sonny Rollins: Rollins Plays For Bird
It's easy to see why Plays For Bird is often overlooked when talking of Rollins's Prestige period, since the opening...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2015
Nina Ferro: Into The Light
James Farrell | Jano Rix | Michael Rojas | Nina Ferro | Sam Hawksley | Steve Mackey
Nina goes to Nashville, and the results are an already classic sounding album of 13 originals, all but three penned...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2014
Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra: Vula
18-piece orchestra | Daniel Glatzel
This is the saxophonist Daniel Glatzel's Berlin-based 18-piece contemporary orchestra's fourth album since forming a decade ago. Vula draws from...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2017
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