Various Artists: Colours of Raga
The Bengali ethnomusicologist Deben Bhattacharya (1921–2001) left a phenomenal legacy of recorded music, scattered over different labels and different territories....
Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: August/2017
Charles Mingus: A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry with Charlie Mingus
You wonder why this Mingus album was so frequently overlooked among his fertile 1957 output – The Clown, Tijuana Moods...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: November/2022
Julian Siegel Quartet: Vista
Gene Calderazzo | Julian Siegel | Liam Noble | Oli Hayhurst
Vista is the much anticipated follow-up to 2011’s Urban Theme Park. It might be said that it is the culmination...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2018
The Rebecca Kilgore Trio: Vol. 1
US vocalist Kilgore has been around for a while now [she's in her early seventies] and was a favourite presence...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2021
Ron Miles: I Am A Man
Bill Frisell | Brian Blade | Jason Moran | Ron Miles | Thomas Morgan
When a musician like Pine cuts a song called ‘Rivers of Blood’ or Miles takes a title like ‘I am...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2018
Avishai Cohen: Cross My Palm With Silver
Avishai Cohen | Barak Mori | Nasheet Waits | Yonathan Avishai
The questionable moral sub-text of the title, sadly all too relevant to an age in which those of a lesser...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2017
Igor Butman Orchestra: Scheherazade's Tales
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
Norma Winstone & John Taylor: In Concert
Following a summer 1988 teaching assignment at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, singer Norma Winstone and pianist John...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2019
Ches Smith: Interpret It Well
Bill Frisell | Ches Smith | Craig Taborn | Mat Maneri
The classy chamber-trio lineup that made ECM's 2016 release, The Bell – Ches Smith, Mat Maneri and Craig Taborn –...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2022
Various Artists: Verve: The Sound of America: The Singles Collection
This impressive box set, released to coincide with the publication of Richard Havers' book Verve: The Sound of America (Thames...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2014
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