Nicholas Payton: Bitches
Cassandra Wilson | Chinah Blac | Esperanza Spalding | N'Dambi | Nicholas Payton | Saunders Sermons
Given the use of the b-word in the title and the fact that Payton, once touted as a serious contender...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2012
Steve Lawson: The Surrender of Time
If the concept of the studio as an instrument is one that's been around since the birth of multi-track recording...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: September/2016
Julia Hülsmann Quartet: Under the Surface
In June 2012 the Julia Hülsmann Trio became a quartet with the addition of Tom Arthurs on trumpet who stayed...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2025
Album Interview: Geri Allen: Grand River Crossings
David McMurray | Geri Allen | Marcus Belgrave
If Flying Toward The Sound (2010) paid homage to Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock, and A Child Is...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2013
Album Interview: Fatoumata Diawara: Fatou
The Malian singer/songwriter and former backing vocalist Fatoumata Diawara – aka Fatou – is currently making waves with her sweet-voiced...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2011
Trevor Watts: The Lantern Tree
Trevor Watts doth bestride the saxophone like a colossus and has done so these past four score years and five....
Reviewed by Chris Welch in issue: March/2025
Dee Byrne's Entropi: Moment Frozen
Andre Canniere | Dee Byrne | Matt Fisher | Olie Brice | Rebecca Nash
London-based altoist and LUME collective co-founder Dee Byrne cites astronomy, time, the intensity of John Coltrane, late period Miles Davis...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018
Sam Rivers Trio: Sam Rivers Archive Project Volume 6: Caldera
Anthony Cole | Doug Matthews | Sam Rivers
Throughout his lengthy career Sam Rivers had a seemingly inexhaustible reserve of energy and ideas, and his principle of ‘streams’...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2023
Susan Alcorn & Phillip Greenlief: Prism Mirror Lens
Phillip Greenlief | Susan Alcorn
What a delectable dance of dappled textures. Baltimore-based pedal-steel player Susan Alcorn has garnered a deserved reputation for just this...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: February/2020
Takeo Moriyama: East Plants
Hideaki Mochizuki | Shuichi Enomoto | Takeo Moriyama | Toshiko Inoue | Yohji Sadanari
The BBE Jazz Masterclass reissue series continues apace with another fine offering from Japan. Drummer Moriyama is not well known...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2018
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