Mulatu Astatke & the Black Jesus Experience: To Know Without Knowing
International artists touring Australia have long saved on costs by working with a pickup band, very often time and again....
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: August/2020
Jack DeJohnette: New Directions
Eddie Gomez | Jack DeJohnette | John Abercrombie | Lester Bowie
Jack DeJohnette joined Manfred Eicher's ECM label in 1972 – at the end of his stint with Miles Davis' Bitches...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2019
Satoko Fujii: Hyaku: One Hundred Dreams
Astonishingly, Hyaku is Satoko Fujii's one hundredth album as a leader (she made her debut in 1996, with Something About...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2023
Jean Carne/Adrian Young & Ali Shaheed Muhammed: Jazz is Dead 12: Jean Carne
Adrian Younge | Ali Shaheed Muhammad | Jazmeen Hicks | Jean Carne | Mekala Session
Props to jazz-hip-hop-funksters Adrian Young and Ali Shaheed Muhammed and their Jazz is Dead label for reaffirming the 'international treasure'...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2022
Jared Gold: All Wrapped Up
Jared Gold | Jim Rotondi | Quincy Davis | Ralph Bowen
When this relatively recent Los Angeles-based label began releasing CDs, a large number featured Hammond B3-players, including one who'd been...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2011
John Coltrane: Coltrane Time
Recorded on 13 October 1958, Coltrane Time album originally appeared on the United Artists label as Stereo Drive under Cecil...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2014
Gary Peacock: Tangents
Gary Peacock | Joey Baron | Marc Copland
Beyond his legend-making free jazz work with Albert Ayler, the double-bassist Gary Peacock has had one of the most extraordinary...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2017
Bill Frisell Quartet: Four
Bill Frisell | Gerald Clayton | Greg Tardy | Johnathan Blake
With a lineup joining the Coltraneish postbop conceptions of experienced tenorist and clarinetist Greg Tardy, and the lyrical yet always...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2022
Vels Trio: Celestial Greens
Cameron Dawson | Dougal Taylor | Jack Stephenson Oliver
This long-awaited debut album sees the Brighton-to-London young guns finally follow up on their 2017 Yellow Ochre EP. The intervening...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: December/January/2021/2022
John Turville: Conception
Ben Reynolds | Chris Hill | Edward Vassallo | John Turville
The sophomore trio album from the London-based pianist-composer John Turville is the follow-up to his Parliamentary Award-winning Midas in 2010....
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2012
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