Review of Carlos Garnett: Black Love/Journey To Enlightenment

Carlos Garnett: Black Love/Journey To Enlightenment

Alex Blake | Anthony Jackson | Ayodelle Jenkins | Billy Hart | Buster Williams | Carlos Chambers | Carlos Garnett | Charles Pullman | Charles Sullivan | Dee Dee Bridgewater

Soul Brother

Rating: ★★★★

While the Miles-Jimi union is one of the great ‘what ifs?’ in contemporary black music, a Trane-James Brown collaboration might...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2014

Review of Gato Barbieri: The Third World

Gato Barbieri: The Third World

Beaver Harris | Charlie Haden | Gato Barbieri | Lonnie Liston Smith | Richard Landrum | Roswell Rudd

BGP

Rating: ★★★★

Dubbed the ‘Trane of Argentina’ upon his emergence in the mid 1960s, Barbieri's fierce, torrid sound, with its abundance of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2014

Review of Big Bad Wolf: Pond Life

Big Bad Wolf: Pond Life

Jay Davis | Michael de Souza | Owen Dawson | Rob Luft

self-released

Rating: ★★★★

Big Bad Wolf are building a big bad rep on the indie jazz'n'rock scene, and understandably so. They ply a...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2017

Review of Kenny Drew: Home Is Where The Soul Is

Kenny Drew: Home Is Where The Soul Is

Frank Butler | Kenny Drew | Leroy Vinnegar

Xanadu

Rating: ★★★

Perhaps somewhat overlooked among the significant Americans who plied their trade in Europe, Drew is nonetheless an artist with a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2016

Review of Rebecca Nash/Atlas: Peaceful King

Rebecca Nash/Atlas: Peaceful King

Chris Mapp | Matt Fisher | Nicholas Malcolm | Nick Walters | Rebecca Nash | Sara Colman | Thomas Seminar Ford

Editor's Choice

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Drawing on players from Entropi, Paradox Ensemble and other projects she plays in, pianist Rebecca Nash has assembled a like-minded...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: October/2019

Review of Ron Magril: Until Now

Ron Magril: Until Now

Avshalom Meidan | Ofri Nehemya | Oren Hardy | Ron Magril

Ubuntu Music

Rating: ★★★

You can’t help but respect Magril for his classic diction and clarity of tone. This is a man whose art...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2022

Review of Jason Rebello: Held

Jason Rebello: Held

Jason Rebello

Edition

Rating: ★★★★

Who better than the man himself to describe his solo album. “As you get older you get interested in different...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2016

Review of Enrico Rava: Edizione Speciale in Concert

Enrico Rava: Edizione Speciale in Concert

Enrico Morello | Enrico Rava | Francesco Bearzatti | Francesco Deodati | Gabriele Evangelista | Giovana Guidi

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

Now 82 years of age, Enrico Rava has rightly been dubbed the Godfather of Italian jazz (‘Il Padrino’) and can...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Review of Supersilent: 12

Supersilent: 12

Arve Henriksen | Helge Sten | Ståle Storløkken

Rune Grammofon

Rating: ★★★★

12 is the first record in four years from Norway's Supersilent, a band even less imaginative than Soft Machine when...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: November/2014

Review of David Kikoski: Sure Thing

David Kikoski: Sure Thing

Boris Kozlov | David Kikoski

High Note

Rating: ★★★

I was first aware of Kikoski playing in Roy Haynes's 1993 group, but the pianist and Kozlov got to know...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2021

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