Wadada Leo Smith: Meditations On Monk/Najwa
Two contrasting sides of the trumpeter-composer that are linked by creative slight of hand and conceptual audacity. Performing the music...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018
Neil Ardley: Kaleidoscope of Rainbows
At the suggestion of Denis Preston, who had produced Ardley's The Greek Variations (1969) and A Symphony of Amaranths (1971)...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2021
Eric Legnini and the Afro Jazz Beat: Sing Twice!
‘File Under: Jazz’, says the press release. But this new disc from Belgian keysman Eric Legnini, who first emerged...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2013
Tord Gustavsen Quartet: Extended Circle
Jarle Vespestad | Mats Eilartsen | Tord Gustavsen | Tore Brunborg
Concluding a six-album cycle, and the final one of three albums by the quartet within that overarching structure, this is...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2014
Jaga Jazzist: Starfire
We live in a machine music age that's reached an increasingly polarised apotheosis. At one end ‘artists’ with barely a...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: August/2015
Omer Klein: Personal Belongings
Amir Bresler | Haggai Cohen-Milo | Omer Klein
The aptly-titled Personal Belongings originated close to the heart of the gifted Frankfurt-resident Israeli pianist Omer Klein, being a half-dozen...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: October/2021
Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron: Left Alone
Almost two decades have elapsed since the release of this gorgeous album, an object lesson in the art of the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Ornette Coleman: Genesis of Genius
This set, combining Something Else!!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman and Tomorrow Is The Question! The New Music of Ornette...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2022
Caleb Wheeler Curtis: Heatmap
Caleb Wheeler Curtis | Eric Revis | Gerald Cleaver | Orrin Evans
The 36 year-old American saxophonist and composer Caleb Wheeler Curtis has been treading an unshowily determined path since his move...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2022
The John Coltrane Quintet featuring Eric Dolphy: So Many Things: The European Tour 1961
Elvin Jones | Eric Dolphy | John Coltrane | McCoy Tyner | Reggie Workman
The year 1961 was an incredibly productive one for John Coltrane. Impulse! bought out his contract with Atlantic records and...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2015
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