Siema Ziemia: Second
Adrzej Konieczny | Fryderyk Szulgit | Kacper Krupa | Pawel Stachowiak
The latest release on Cheltenham’s burgeoning (and eclectic) Byrd Out label comes from Gdansk-based electro-acoustic quartet Siema Ziemia. The name...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: October/2023
Don Ellis: How Time Passes
Charlie Persip | Don Ellis | Jaki Byard | Ron Carter
This is Ellis’ debut album under his own name, having achieved modest recognition as an instrumentalist and composer at the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: December/January/2023/2024
Keyon Harrold: Foreverland
On Foreverland, trumpeter and vocalist Keyon Harrold straddles two distinct worlds. The first – chilled-out, vocal-led R&B – dominates, with...
Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: February/2024
Lage Lund: Most Peculiar
Lage Lund | Matt Brewer | Sullivan Fortner | Tyshawn Sorey
Lage Lund’s latest release reunites the guitarist with the band he formed in 2014. Lund, resident in the US since...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: February/2024
Hays Street Hart: Bridges
Ben Street | Billy Hart | Kevin Hays
The trio’s 2021 album All The Things You Are was live-streamed from the empty Smoke Jazz Club in New York...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2023
Sinikka Langeland: Wind and Sun
Mathias Eick | Mats Eilertsen | Sinikka Langeland | Thomas Strønen | Trygve Seim
For her seventh album on the ECM label, the Norwegian instrumentalist and singer Sinikka Langeland teams up with Jon Fosse.Fosse,...
Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: November/2023
Alexi Tuomarila: Departing the Wasteland
Finnish pianist/composer Alexi Tuomarila’s European reputation has been growing steadily for 20 years, for a scalding improv virtuosity hitched to...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: February/2025
Master Oogway with Henriette Eilertsen: Happy Village
Master Oogway conjure a sense of imagined community in the moment with this live album, reinforced by Rune Grammofon design...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2022
Trish Clowes: And in the Night-Time She is There
This is saxophonist-composer Trish Clowes’ follow up to her well-received debut Tangent released on Basho in 2010. On that recording...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2012
Makaya McCraven: In These Times
Over the course of seven albums, drummer Makaya McCraven has established a position at the forefront of progressive-minded jazz internationalists:...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: November/2022
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