Shri: The Letter
Arild Andersen | Ben Castle | Bugge Wesseltoft | Paolo Vinaccia | Shri | Tore Brunborg
In 1993, a young Shri Sriram sent a demo tape to his bass idol, Eberhard Weber, who replied with this...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: March/2020
Tyshawn Sorey: Alloy
Christopher Tordini | Cory Smythe | Tyshawn Sorey
While greatly impressing through his work with cutting edge leaders such as Steve Lehman, Steve Coleman and Roscoe Mitchell, Sorey...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2015
Jeremy Pelt: Noir En Rouge: Live in Paris
Jacquelene Acevedo | Jeremy Pelt | Jonathan Barber | Vicente Archer | Victor Gould
At last – a live recording by Pelt's touring band. It's still a great shame that the trumpeter's earlier wonderful...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: July/2018
Rudresh Mahanthappa: Gamak
Dan Weiss | David Fiuczynski | Francois Moutin | Rudresh Mahanthappa
Contrast is one of the most effective creative strategies in any art and this engrossing set exploits it to the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2013
Dan Weiss: Dedication
Dan Weiss | Jacob Sacks | Thomas Morgan
Thinking from the groove up, and prioritising how improvisers might more often space and stretch melodies against beats more than...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: February/2023
Miguel Zenón & The Rhythm Collective: Oye!!! Live in Puerto Rico
Aldemar Valentin | Miguel Zenón | Reynaldo De Jesus | Tony Escapa
This magnificent quartet of top Puerto Rican musicians was put together in 2003 for a US State Department Jazz Ambassadors’...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2013
Marcus Strickland: Triumph of the Heavy (Vols 1 & 2)
Ben Williams | David Bryant | EJ Strickland | Marcus Strickland
Marcus Strickland continues to grow in stature with every release. This is his seventh as a leader and the fourth...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012
Duane Tatro: Jazz For Moderns
Searching for Tatro's name among the standard jazz reference books produces slim reward; his name is only mentioned once, in...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2019
Warren Wolf
Christian McBride | Gregory Hutchinson | Jeremy Pelt | Peter Martin | Tim Green | Warren Wolf
Born in The Wire territory of Baltimore, Warren, now 31, is quite a rarity these days in that he tells...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2011
Satoko Fuji: Aspiration
Ikue Mori | Natsuki Tamura | Satoko Fuji | Wadada Leo Smith
Pianist-composer Fuji has been a prolific and consistently adventurous recording artist for the best part of two decades and this...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2017
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