Review of Matthew Stevens/Walter Smith III: In Common II

Matthew Stevens/Walter Smith III: In Common II

Linda May Han Oh | Matthew Stevens | Micah Thomas | Nate Smith | Walter Smith III

Whirlwind

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Marko Churnchetz: Devotion

Marko Churnchetz: Devotion

Andrew Cyrille | Dave Douglas | Uri Caine

Greenleaf Music

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Nick Malcolm: Real Isn't Real

Nick Malcolm: Real Isn't Real

Alexander Hawkins | Emily Wright | Josienne Clarke | Lauren Kinsella | Marie Lister | Nick Malcolm | Olie Brice | Ric Yarborough | Will Harris

Green Eyes

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Dayna Stephens: The Nepenthetic Place

Dayna Stephens: The Nepenthetic Place

Ambrose Akinmusire | Dayna Stephens | Gretchen Parlato | Jaleel Shaw | Joe Sanders | Justin Brown | Taylor Eigisti

Sunnyside

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Ben LaMar Gay: Certain Reveries

Ben LaMar Gay: Certain Reveries

Ben LaMar Gay | Tommaso Moretti

International Anthem

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Orrin Evans: The Magic of Now

Orrin Evans: The Magic of Now

Bill Stewart | Immanuel Wilkins | Orrin Evans | Vicente Archer

Editor's Choice

Smoke Sessions Records

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Trilok Gurtu: Spellbound

Trilok Gurtu: Spellbound

Joe Sample

Warner Bros

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Melissa Aldana: Visions

Melissa Aldana: Visions

Julian Anderson-Bowes | Leland Whitty | Matthew Chalmers | Matthew Tavares

Mr Bongo

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Carlo De Rosa’s Cross-Fade: Brain Dance

Carlo De Rosa’s Cross-Fade: Brain Dance

Carlo De Rosa | Justin Brown | Mark Shim | Vijay Iyer

Cuneiform

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of David Binney: Tomorrow’s Journey

David Binney: Tomorrow’s Journey

Aaron Janik | Benjamin Ring | David Binney | Ethan Moffit | Jon Hatamiya | Kenny Wolleson | Logan Kane | Luca Mendoza | Paul Cornish

Ghost Note Records

Rating: ★★★★

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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