Matthew Stevens/Walter Smith III: In Common II
Linda May Han Oh | Matthew Stevens | Micah Thomas | Nate Smith | Walter Smith III
Someone found an amusing way of getting round a change in rhythm section for the band pic on the sleeve...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020
Marko Churnchetz: Devotion
Andrew Cyrille | Dave Douglas | Uri Caine
The 28-year-old Slovenian pianist Marko Churnchetz spends much of his time journeying between his home country and New York. The...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2019
Nick Malcolm: Real Isn't Real
Stylised jazz sub-genres hold little sway for many of the newer generation of improvising musicians and Nick Malcolm is a...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Feb/2019
Dayna Stephens: The Nepenthetic Place
Glib as it may sound, a marketing department may bill this as 1960s modernism àla Miles, Herbie, Evans et al,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2013
Ben LaMar Gay: Certain Reveries
Ben LaMar Gay | Tommaso Moretti
Ben LaMar Gay has spent years in Chicago's black bohemian underground, contributing cornet, synths, vocals and poetry to an evocative...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2023
Orrin Evans: The Magic of Now
Bill Stewart | Immanuel Wilkins | Orrin Evans | Vicente Archer
The most telling creative hallmark of long or deep experience is often an instinct for what to leave out. The...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2021
Trilok Gurtu: Spellbound
For his new CD, the veteran South Indian percussion maestro celebrates a triumvirate of jazz trumpet giants with the help...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015
Melissa Aldana: Visions
Julian Anderson-Bowes | Leland Whitty | Matthew Chalmers | Matthew Tavares
The three-year gap between the 2013 Thelonious Monk Prize winner Melissa Aldana's fifth album, Visions, released on the East coast...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020
Carlo De Rosa’s Cross-Fade: Brain Dance
Carlo De Rosa | Justin Brown | Mark Shim | Vijay Iyer
DeRosa is quite a revelation. Best known as a sideman on records with the likes of Ralph Alessi and Rudresh...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2012
David Binney: Tomorrow’s Journey
Alto saxophonist-composer David Binney is also an in-demand producer and runs his own record label Mythology. Over a prolific recording...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2022
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