The Weave: Knowledge Porridge
Here's a new Liverpool-based jazz ensemble with a revitalised old sound. On their second album Knowledge Porridge, The Weave –...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015
Emma Johnson’s Gravy Boat: Northern Flame
Angus Milne | Emma Johnson | Fergus Vickers | Richard Jones | Steve Hanley
More evidence, if any were needed, of the vitality of the Northern scene, and the distinctive voices emerging from it....
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: December/January/2023/2024
The Jakub Klimiuk Quintet: (un)balanced
Adam Merrell | Cody Moss | Harry Pearce | Jakub Klimiuk | Mark Lockheart | Simeon May
Jakub Klimiuk is a Polish guitarist, now living in London, drawing his own band of locals into his compositional world....
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: July/2024
Franco Ambrosetti: Sweet Caress
Alan Broadbent | Franco Ambrosetti | John Scofield | Peter Erskine | Sarah Caswell | Scott Colley
An important figure in European jazz since the 1960s, Ambosetti was a founding member (and later associate director) of fellow...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2024
Cyrille Aimée: À Fleur de Peau
Abe Rounds | Cyrille Aimée | Jake Sherman
Although she’s been composing for years, the French singer-songwriter Cyrille Aimée refers to her latest album À Fleur de Peau...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2024
Adam Bałdych: Portraits
Adam Bałdych | Andrzej Święs | Dawid Fortuna | Marek Konarski | Sebastian Zawadzki
Quite often you can listen to programmatic music – where the composer tries to convey an extra-musical narrative – without...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2025
Horace Silver: That Healing Feelin'/Total Response
To all intents and purposes, this is Señor Blues at his most hippie dippy'd, delivering two albums under the banner...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2012
Mike Cooper/Mark Wastell: Sound Mirrors
As Geoff Dyer said of Don Cherry, Mike Cooper ‘has simply become the music’. And in Wastell he has a...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2020
Fatoumata Diawara & Roberto Fonseca: At Home Live in Marciac
Cuba and West Africa have long had musical links so it's no wonder, really, that renowned Havana-based pianist Roberto Fonseca...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: June/2015
Kevin Hays & Lionel Loueke: Hope
Established bandleaders and in-demand sidemen, pianist Hays and guitarist Loueke, make a formidable combination. They strike a good balance in...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2019
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