The Comet Is Coming: The Afterlife
Dan Leavers | Joshua Idehen | Max Hallett | Shabaka Hutchings
This EP companion to Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery comes from the same sessions, and expands on...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2020
Angus Bayley: Everything’s Dangerous EP
Angus Bayley | Joshua Blackmore | Julian Sartorius
There’s a sense of testing the water on this debut release from keyboardist and conceptualist Angus Bayley. Fully fessing-up to...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: July/2024
Cautious Clay: Karpeh
Ohio-born multi-instrumentalist Joshua Karpeh – aka Cautious Clay (yes, it’s a play on Muhammed Ali’s birth name) – is perhaps...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio
Francisco Mela | Melissa Aldana | Pablo Menares
The tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana was the first South American (as well as the first female instrumentalist) to win the...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2014
Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band: Body and Shadow
Brian Blade | Chris Thomas | Dave Devine | Jon Cowherd | Melvin Butler | Myron Walden
The superlative drummer Brian Blade’s Fellowship Band has retained the nucleus of the line-up that recorded the eponymous debut release...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2018
The Comet Is Coming: Channel The Spirits
Dan Leavers | Joshua Idehen | Maxwell Hallett | Shabaka Hutchings
Black American music has sought metaphors of transcendence in science-fiction ever since Sun Ra announced his arrival from Saturn, and...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2016
Mark Dresser Seven: Ain't Nothing But A Cybercoup And You
Double-bassist Dresser's small group work in the past decade has been outstanding, and he continues his rich vein of form...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2019
Marquis Hill: The Way We Play
If you skip the opening voiceover band introductory track, this turns out to be an interesting and pleasurable album featuring...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2016
Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos: Jazz in the Space Age
As national jazz orchestras go, Portugal's Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos is remarkably progressive, performing repertoires of all aesthetic variants and...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2020
Aaron Parks: Little Big
Aaron Parks | David Ginyard | Greg Tuohey | Tommy Crane
For Invisible Cinema, his much-admired 2008 Blue Note debut, Seattle-born Aaron Parks was welcomed as a rising piano star –...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2019
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