Exoterm: Exits Into A Corridor
Jim Black | Kristoffer Berre Alberts | Nels Cline | Rune Nergaard
For a band with no shortage of trapped-animal screams, Exoterm stay remarkably lucid. Though fierce improv abounds, cacophony never arrives....
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: June/2019
Ethan Iverson: Bud Powell in the 21st Century
We know that Iverson, since leaving The Bad Plus, has been an expert piano teacher also capable of excellent commentary,...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2021
The Bad Plus: It's Hard
David King | Ethan Iverson | Reid Anderson
The since-popular jazz pastime of covering Radiohead helped announce The Bad Plus to the world. Their own compositions actually dominate...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: Dec/Jan/2016/2017
Victor Gould: Earthlings
Dezron Douglas | Eric McPherson | Godwin Louis | Kahlil Kwame Bell | Tim Warfield | Victor Gould
One of my favourite 2017 albums was the auspicious debut of pianist-composer Victor Gould. As he says here, it placed...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2018
Michael Rodriguez: Reverence
Chris Cheek | Gerald Clayton | Kiyoshi Kitagawa | Michael Rodriguez | Rodney Green
One of the best releases in 2007 was Conversations on Savant by the Cuban-blooded but America-reared Rodriguez Brothers – trumpeter...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2013
James Brandon Lewis & Chad Taylor: Live in Willisau
Chad Taylor | James Brandon Lewis
Saxophonist James Brandon Lewis is steeped in gospel, schooled in jazz and released his debut album with Gerald Cleaver and...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2020
Ivo Perelman: Villa Lobos Suite
Ivo Perelman | Mat Maneri | Matthew Shipp | Tanya Kalmanovitch | Whit Dickey
True to form the Brazilian tenor saxophonist goes far and wide with his studio albums, releasing a customary bunch of...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016
Joe McPhee: Black Is The Color
Now 80, Joe McPhee remains such a vital presence, live and in the studio, that it would be easy to...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: December/2020
Marquis Hill: Rituals + Routines
Since his 2011 debut release New Gospel introduced a new set of Chicago players and a fresh take on the...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: September/2023
Max Light: Chaotic Neutral
Caleb Curtis | Julian Shore | Max Light | Steven Crammer | Walter Stinson
In 2019, guitar-star judges, including Pat Metheny, John Scofield and Lionel Loueke, embraced the precocious arrival of Max Light, one...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2024
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