Myele Manzanza: Crisis & Opportunity Vol. 4 – Meditations

Matt Penman | Matthew Sheens | Myele Manzanza

“I’m not trying to entertain you. I’m not trying to make you dance. Not on this record.” It’s a strong...

Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: December/January/2023/2024

Keyon Harrold: Foreverland

BIGYUKI | Brandon Owens | Burniss Travis | Chris Dave | Greg Phillinganes | Jahari Stampley | Jahi Sundance | Jean Baylor | Justus West | Keyon Harrold

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

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

Triton: Wilderness of Glass

Saxophonist Alan Wakeman's late 1970s trio, with Nigel Morris, drums, and originally Jeff Clyne, then (as here) Paul Bridge, play...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2012

Ivo Perelman: One

Ant Law | Asaf Sirkis | Dionne Bennett | Hossam Ramzy | Jason Rebello | Tim Garland

So prolific is this Brazilian saxophonist that it is hard to believe that he doesn’t actually rent rooms in the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2016

Carlberg/Moms/Niggenkempei/Gray: Cosmopolitan Greetings

A vigorous exercise in free jazz meets contemporary improv from a veteran quartet that features guitar legend Joe Morris and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2016

Natural Causes: Spoons

The Norwich-based trumpeter Chris Dowding and singer-songwriter Hugh Nankivell quartet's new five-song EP has a curious appeal about it with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2018

Elliott Sharp's Terraplane: 4am Always

A onetime pillar of the NYC Downtown scene, this guitarist's post-new wave, swampy, grittily blues-rooted band features the vocalist Tracie...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014

Soft Works: Abracadabra in Osaka

Allan Holdsworth | Elton Dean | Hugh Hopper | John Marshall

Rarity alone does not a recording special make, but having four former members of Soft Machine from different eras come...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2021

Milford Graves: Bäbi

Arthur Doyle | Hugh Glover | Milford Graves

Originally released in 1977 on Institute of Percussive Studies, the label founded by Graves and fellow free-jazz drummer Andrew Cyrille,...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Feb/2019