Vince Mendoza: Nights on Earth
Nights on Earth is Mendoza’s eighth album as a leader, and this, together with Blauklang (ACT) from 2008, provide ample...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2011
John Scofield: Combo 66
Bill Stewart | Gerald Clayton | John Scofield | Vicente Archer
This set of all-new John Scofield originals celebrates the Grammygathering guitarist's 66th birthday – but if his senior citizenship inclines...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2018
Samara Joy: A Joyful Holiday
Surely one of the most gifted – and, as time may yet reveal – important jazz vocalists of our century,...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Sonny Fortune: Infinity Is
There is a decentish album to be made from the combination of highlights of these two sets, each of which...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2015
Tohpati: Tribal Dance
Chad Wackerman | Jimmy Haslip | Tohpati
Like his Indonesian compatriot Dewa Budjana, Tohpati has a boggling technique that embraces every mode of jazz-rock guitarism. Unlike Budjana's...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2014
Rick Simpson: Semi Wogan
Brigitte Beraha | Dave Manington | George Crowley | Jon Scott | Rick Simpson
What an odd title. It's not explained in the liner notes or obviously alluded to in the abstract cover artwork...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2012
The Nels Cline 4: Currents, Constellations
Julian Lage | Nels Cline | Scott Colley | Tom Rainey
Following his gently epic Blue Note debut, Lovers, Cline returns to more familiar territory with a spate of post-bop workouts...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2018
Metamorphic: Coalescence
Andre Canniere | Hannes Riepler | Ivo Neame | Jon Scott | Ryan Trebilcock
This follow-up to their 2011 F-ire debut, The Rock Between, sees the London-based jazz/folk sextet serving up another compelling and...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2014
Angélique Kidjo: Spirit Rising
Featuring a selection of Kidjo originals and covers including the Curtis Mayfield classic ‘Move On Up’, Spirit Rising is the...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2012
Spirit: It Shall Be: The Ode & Epic Recordings 1968-1972
Originally called Spirits Rebellious, after a book of short stories by Lebanese-American writer Khalil Gibran, this phenomenal 1960s US psychedelic...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2018
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