Andy Scott + Group S: Ruby and All Things Purple
Formed in 1995, saxophonist Andy Scott's Manchester-based SaxAssault has recently changed its name to Group S to reflect the less...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017
Ed Motta: Behind the Tea Chronicles
In his native Brazil, the singer and multi-instrumentalist Ed Motta is known as a rock and soul artist, but with...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Nite Bjuti
Candice Hoyes | Mimi Jones | Val Jeanty
Black music has a long history of experiments in sound and this engrossing new collaborative trio makes a significant addition...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2023
McCoy Tyner/Freddie Hubbard Quartet: Like at Fabrik
Avery Sharpe | Freddie Hubbard | Louis Hayes | McCoy Tyner
This major musical gem just dropped from the vaults of the German radio station NDR and deserves all the brouhaha...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2022
James Brandon Lewis: Jesup Wagon
Chad Taylor | Chris Hoffman | James Brandon Lewis | Kirk Knuffe | William Parker
Following 2020's excellent quartet album, Molecular, saxophonist James Brandon Lewis returns with a very different ensemble, the Red Lily quintet,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2021
Raul de Souza Generations Band: Plenitude
Alex Corrêa | Christope Schweizer | Glauco Solter | Matheus Jardim | Raul de Souza
I was just typing up my review of this album last month when the sad news came through of de...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2021
Dexter Gordon: A Swingin' Affair
Billy Higgins | Butch Warren | Dexter Gordon | Sonny Clark
A Swingin’ Affair was the second of Gordon’s 1962 recorded Blue Note sessions, taped a day after the similarly iconic...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2019
Nik Bärtsch: Entendre
The closer ECM Records' founder Manfred Eicher pays attention to a particular session, the more it makes one want to...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2021
Album Interview: Lizz Wright: Shadow
Celebrating 20 years since her debut Salt, released on Verve Records in 2003, Shadow represents vocalist and songwriter Lizz Wright’s...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2024
Yazz Ahmed: A Paradise in the Hold
British-Bahraini trumpeter Yazz Ahmed has long used her dual cultural heritage as inspiration for her music. Since 2011’s confident debut,...
Reviewed by Ammar Kalia in issue: March/2025
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