Sun Ra Arkestra: Lights On A Satellite
By way of marking Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen’s 100th trip around the sun, Lights On A Satellite is...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: December/2024
Lonnie Liston-Smith: Visions Of A New World
This album, cut in the slipstream of the iconic Expansions has aged very well, consolidating any claim Smith might want...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2015
Mark Masters Ensemble: Masters & Baron Meet Blanton & Webster
The California-based arranger Masters has addressed Ellingtonia before. Now his expanded Ensemble is tackling the compositions recorded when that marvellous...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2021
Bill Bruford: Earthworks Complete
This is how you tell the story of a band. Bruford has curated this box set with a diligence and...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020
Brian Auger & The Trinity: Far Horizons
Far Horizons is four classic albums revived on vinyl, as befits their 1960s vintage. Post-Steampacket, Auger conjured his jazz, pop...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2022
Paul Dunmall Brass Project: Maha Samadhi
The most obvious precedent for the slabs, smears and flutters of brass on this brash and spirited recording are John...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2017
Lonnie Liston Smith: Album Interview: Cosmic Funk & Spiritual Sounds
One of the most salient features of the music that the keyboardist recorded in his purple patch for Bob Thiele's...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2013
Maynard Ferguson: MF Horn/MF Horn2/MFHorn3
The letters MF were of course Maynard Ferguson’s initials, but their secondary adjectival meaning also fitted the extrovert Canadian’s prowess...
Reviewed by Jack Massarik in issue: October/2013
Satoko Fujii Orchestra New York: Entity
Sixtieth birthdays in Japan are special and are celebrated as kanreki, when one cycle of life is at an end...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2020
Tom Harrell: Trip
This album, in tandem with a live concert recently witnessed, suggest that while Harrell's creative spirit remains undiminished, his allegiance...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2017
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