Reviews
Kate Shortt & Alcyona Mick: Convergence & Variations
The simplest of conceits, the most elegant of outcomes. Shortt and Mick are virtuosic instrumentalists, nominally from classical and jazz...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2025
Nicolas Masson: Renaissance
Patrice Moret | Nicolas Masson | Lionel Friedli | Colin Vallon
Since the millennium, when he graduated from music school in Geneva and travelled to New York to find Cecil Taylor...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: April/2025
In the Country, Solveig Slettahjell & Knut Reiersrud: Remembrance
The Norwegian piano trio In the Country had recorded four albums before teaming up with acclaimed singer Solveig Slettahjell and...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2025
Ingi Bjarni: Hope
Ingi Bjarni | Anders Jormin | Hilmar Jensson | Magnus Trygvason Eliassen
This Icelandic pianist-composer could definitely fit the archetypal Nordic jazz mould. His music is largely restrained, melancholic and down tempo....
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2025
Vince Guaraldi: It’s The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown!
One of the slightly irritating aspects of this series of reissued Guaraldi soundtrack albums for Peanuts is that many of...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2025
Sultan Stevenson: El Roi
Soweto Kinch | Sultan Stevenson | Josh Short | Jacob Gryn | Joel Waters
In 2023 London pianist Sultan Stevenson broke cover with an impressive debut called Faithful One. It unveiled a classic-yet-contemporary sound,...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: April/2025
Donald Harrison: Indian Blues
If this don’t put a smile on your face, you just ain’t human. Calling up the spirit of Mardi Gras,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2025
Sasha Berliner: Fantome
Harish Raghavan | Jongkuk Kim | Rico Jones | Taylor Eigsti | Lex Korten | Sasha Berliner
The third album for star vibraphonist Sasha Berliner is a through-a-glass-darkly affair that reinforces her signature sound, an ambitious yet...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2025
Gaspare Pasini: Pepper Legacy: Complete Recordings
George Cables | Gaspare Pasini | Carl Burnett | Essiet Okon Essiet
Thirty-one years after Art Pepper’s death, Italian saxophonist Gaspare Pasini brought his Pepper Legacy quartet to play for an appreciative...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2025
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Pete Judge | Jake McMurchie | Tom Taylor | Sophie Stockham Brown | Dan Moore | Matt Stockham Brown
After the brash, beat-driven frenzy of his former band Run Logan Run, drummer Matt Stockham Brown’s new project sees him...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: April/2025
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