Reviews
Dom Howard: All Paths Join Up Here
Dom Howard is a young guitarist and composer from Cambridge currently starting to make some waves on the London scene....
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: May/2025
Fini Bearman: Last Night of the World
There’s a rare alchemy at work in vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Fini Bearman’s fifth studio album, a collection that transforms...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2025
Gilad Hekselman: Downhill From Here
Marcus Gilmore | Gilad Hekselman | Larry Grenadier
Last year’s outstanding live quartet release Life, at the Village Vanguard by the singular Israeli-born, New York-residing guitarist Gilad Hekselman...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2025
Fred Moten & Brandon Lopez: Revision
This meeting of poet Fred Moten, professor of performance studies and comparative literature at New York University; and bassist Brandon...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2025
Daniel Sommer: Lost Threads
Thommy Andersson | Daniel Sommer | Artturi Rönkä
The piano trio is a pivotal modern jazz form, and has evolved into many well-established forms over the years. Just...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: May/2025
Ingrid Laubrock: Purposing The Air
New York-based German saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock has been a strong improviser and composer for over 25 years, expressing herself in...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2025
John Russell & Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg: before the wedding
John Russell | Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg
With a single track of just 26 minutes, it’s debatable whether this constitutes a full album. But what it lacks...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2025
Various Artists: Chet Baker Re:imagined
Recent ‘re-imagined’ releases (notably on Blue Note) might be seen as a reasonable compromise between recycling familiar – and therefore...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: May/2025
Billy Mohler: The Eternal
Jeff Parker | Damion Reid | Devin Daniels | Billy Mohler
This quartet of eminent LA hipsters have a matchless collective CV: Jeff Parker is best known as founder member of...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: May/2025
Ancient Psychic Triple Hyper Octopus: Put Emojis On My Grave
Isambard Khroustaliov | Alex Bonney | Will Glaser
Given the band name and album title, and coming as it does with a starkly declamatory booklet postulating the self-immolation...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: May/2025
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