Art Hodes: I Remember Bessie
Of émigré White Russian extraction, Hodes immersed himself from an early age in Chicago’s African-American blues culture, emerging as both...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2013
Gil Scott-Heron & Amnesia Express: Legend In His Own Mind
Although his work in the 1970s cemented his place in the pantheon of modern black music, Gil Scott-Heron was still...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2023
Avishai Cohen: Sensitive Hours/Shaot Regishot
Avishai Cohen’s singing voice might not have anywhere near the kind of masterful technique we would attribute to his bass...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2023
Duncan Eagles Quartet: Narrations
Duncan Eagles | Max Luthert | Tomasz Bura | Zoé Pascal
With Narrations, Duncan Eagles takes another step away from the Partikel nucleus that acted as the saxophonist-composer’s creative crucible for...
Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: June/2023
Phil Upchurch: Tell The Truth
David Arnay | Kevin Axt | Phil Upchurch | Vince Wilburn Jnr
Phil Upchurch, one of the great soul jazz guitarists of the 1970s, who cut killer albums such as Darkness, Darkness...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2024
Andy James: Let Me See Your Heart
It’s not every jazz singer who’s danced flamenco professionally before finding their way to the mic stand. Prior to releasing...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2024
Jordina Milla & Barry Guy: Live In Munich
Catalan pianist Jordina Milla and British bassist Barry Guy are highly skilled improvisers, as this Munich concert attests, but they...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2024
Alfa Mist: Recurring (Live at Kings Place)
Live albums are often a practical, more affordable release option for artists, which is understandable given the high costs associated...
Reviewed by Gail Tasker in issue: 11/24
Album Interview: Sam Crowe Group: Towards the Centre of Everything
With his remarkably assured debut Synaesthesia in 2011, the London-based pianist Sam Crowe looked like a young man with a...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013
Vijay Iyer Sextet: Far From Over
Graham Haynes | Mark Shim | Stephan Crump | Steve Lehman | Tyshawn Sorey | Vijay Iyer
Far From Over arrests on so many levels that at times the energy and varying emotional pulses seem nearly uncontainable....
Reviewed by John Murph in issue: September/2017
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