Laila Biali
The Vancouver-born vocalist, pianist and songwriter Laila Biali serves up an impressive ACT debut with a combination of mellifluous vocals,...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2018
Kenny Burrell: Four Classic Albums
Alfred Lion at Blue Note liked to record lots of material by his chosen artists in a short space of...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020
King Crimson: Larks’ Tongues In Aspic
Bill Bruford | David Cross | Jamie Muir | John Wetton | Robert Fripp
Are you a Red man? Or perhaps that audacious, eponymous debut remains your fave Crims outing. But for many Larks’...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013
Alister Spence Trio with Ed Kuepper: Asteroid Ekosystem
Alister Spence | Ed Kuepper | Lloyd Swanton | Toby Hall
Antipodean guitar wizard and songwriter Ed Kuepper is best-known for fronting punk and rock groups such as the Saints, the...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2021
Robert Fripp: Exposures
Call me a heathen if you like, but that extraordinary first album In The Court Of… apart, I’ve never really...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2022
VWCR: Noise Of Our Time
Ken Vandermark | Nate Wooley | Sylvie Courvoisier | Tom Rainey
Chicago reeds flamethrower Ken Vandermark can be a fearsomely uncompromising free-improviser, but his resourcefulness as a comparably powerful composer both...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: November/2018
Blue-Eyed Hawk: Under the Moon
Alex Roth | Corrie Dick | Laura Jurd | Lauren Kinsella
Young musicians coming out of the cosseted world of jazz academia might feel the need to let their hair down...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014
Wes Montgomery: Echoes of Indiana Avenue
These recently discovered tapes are a rare treat. Professionally remastered, they yield nearly an hour of early Wes Montgomery, demo-taped...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: June/2012
Dave Holland: Another Land
The guitar, bass and drums trio can sit anywhere on a broad stylistic spectrum in jazz, encompassing anything from the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2021
Bill Frisell: Orchestras
Bill Frisell has been conjuring an inspired solo soundscape for electric guitar for so long that the world has grown...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2024
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