Review of DOMi & JD Beck: NOT TIGHT

DOMi & JD Beck: NOT TIGHT

Anderson Paak | Busta Rhymes | DOMi Louna | Herbie Hancock | JD Beck | Kurt Rosenwinkel | Mac DeMarco | Snoop Dogg | with guests Thundercat

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★

As Gen-Z jazzers go, DOMi & JD Beck are leaders of a new hyper-hip yet virtuosic pack. French keyboardist DOMi...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: October/2022

Review of The Kaleidoscope Quintet: Dancing on the Edge

The Kaleidoscope Quintet: Dancing on the Edge

Joe Lovano

Dot Time

Rating: ★★★

Joe Lovano's and Dave Liebman's regular partnerships flowered in the Saxophone Summit supergroup they shared from 1999 with the late...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: December/2020

Review of Igor Butman Orchestra: Scheherazade's Tales

Igor Butman Orchestra: Scheherazade's Tales

Alevtina Polyakova | Alexander Berenson | Alexander Dovgopoly | Alexander Sakharov | Anton Baronin | Denis Shvytov | Dmitry Mospan | Eduard Zizak | Igor Butman | James Burton

Butman Music

Rating: ★★

Igor Butman, a neo-bop tenor saxophonist who emerged from behind the Iron Curtain to study at Berklee in 1983, had...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2012

Review of Bill Laurance & The Untold Orchestra: Bloom

Bill Laurance & The Untold Orchestra: Bloom

Bill Laurance | Rory Storm | The Untold Orchestra

ACT Music

Rating: ★★★★

It’s 10 years since classically-trained piano virtuoso Bill Laurance stepped out from the long (rather funky) shadow of Snarky Puppy...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: May/2024

Review of Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Standards) 2020

Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Standards) 2020

Alexander Hawkins | Anthony Braxton | Neil Charles | Stephen Davis

Editor's Choice

New Braxton House/Bandcamp

Rating: ★★★★★

While pursuing his path as an uncompromisingly original composer, Anthony Braxton has regularly visited ‘the tradition’ during his long career....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2021

Review of Wali And The Afro Caravan: Home Lost And Found (The Natural Sound)

Wali And The Afro Caravan: Home Lost And Found (The Natural Sound)

J. Murray | Ray Lewis | Robert Moore | Ronald Nance | Wali King

Solid State

When 22-year old percussionist Wali King formed his ethnic jazz troupe, the Afro Caravan, in Austin, Texas in the mid-1960s...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2014

Review of Louis Moholo-Moholo Unit: For The Blue Notes

Louis Moholo-Moholo Unit: For The Blue Notes

Alan Tomlinson | Alexander Hawkins | Henry Lowther | Jason Yarde | John Edwards | Louis Moholo-Moholo | Ntshuks Bonga

Ogun

Rating: ★★★

While rightly regarded as one of the most fiery and energetic of players imaginable, Moholo-Moholo also makes music that has...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2014

Review of Caity Gyorgy: Now Pronouncing: Caity Gyorgy

Caity Gyorgy: Now Pronouncing: Caity Gyorgy

Caity Gyorgy | Daniel Barta | Felix Fox-Pappas | Jacob Wutzke | Kyle Pogline | Kyle Tarder-Stoll | Lucas Dubovik | Nick Forget | Thomas Hainbuch | Virginia MacDonald

La Reserve Records

Rating: ★★★

Originally from Calgary, Canada, and currently studying for a master's degree in jazz performance at McGill University in Montreal, vocalist,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2021

Review of David Fiuczynski: Planet Microjam

David Fiuczynski: Planet Microjam

David Fiuczynski | David Radley | Eric Kerr | Evan Marien | Evgeny Lebedev | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette | Jovol Bell | Kenwood Dennard | Takeru Yamazaki

Rare Noise

Rating: ★★★

David Fiuczynski has carved out a unique niche as an electric guitarist favouring the energy and virtuosity of fusion, but...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2012

Review of Lynne Arriale: Solo

Lynne Arriale: Solo

Andrew McCormack

Ubuntu Music

Rating: ★★★★

As computed in Arriale's liner-note, this must be her twelfth CD, having followed nine trio sets with two quartets, one...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2020

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