Reviews
Louis Hayes: Serenade for Horace
Louis Hayes' Blue Note career began when he joined Horace Silver's quintet in 1956, aged 18. He went on to...
Reviewed in issue August/2017
Ambrose Akinmusire: A Rift In Decorum: Live At The Village Vanguard
Sam Harris | Harish Raghavan | Ambrose Akinmusire | Justin Brown
Trumpeter Akinmusire's studio output has been steady since his 2008 album Prelude To Cora, and this double album recorded in...
Reviewed in issue August/2017
Tony Allen: A Tribute to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
Tony Allen | Yann Jankielewicz | Nicolas Giraud | Mathias Allamane | Jean-Phillip Dary | Rémi Sciuto
It took a couple of plays to adjust to the stripped down harmonic structures and changed rhythmic emphasis of Tony...
Reviewed in issue July/2017
Trombone Shorty: Parking Lot Symphony
Favourites at the end-of-jazz-festival party scene, the Tremé-raised 'boneist-vocalist releases his debut for Blue Note and puts his exuberant stamp...
Reviewed in issue June/2017
Terence Blanchard: The Comedian
Carl Allen | David Pulphus | Khari Allen Lee | Terence Blanchard | Ravi Coltrane | Kenny Barron
One of the key soundtrack composers of the last two decades returns to writing for the silver screen with a...
Reviewed in issue May/2017
Robert Glasper Experiment: ArtScience
Derrick Hodge | Robert Glasper | Casey Benjamin | Mark Colenburg
Conqueror of an ‘urban’ audience and headliner at major venues around the world, Glasper has recorded to a consistently high...
Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2016/2017
Kandace Springs: Soul Eyes
Dan Lutz | Dean Parks | Kandace Springs | Vinnie Colaiuta
Seeing Kandace Springs perform at a lunchtime showcase at Pizza Express Jazz Club back in April, what particularly impressed was...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Marcus Strickland Twi-Life: Nihil Novi
Reeds man Strickland has always been a soulful player, but this is the album where he lays down soulful jazz...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Dr Lonnie Smith: Evolution
Smith last recorded for Blue Note 45 years ago, and he still retains the effortless soul that was that label’s...
Reviewed in issue April/2016
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels: I Long to See You
I Long to See You marks a change of pace for Charles Lloyd; there isn’t anything quite like it in...
Reviewed in issue March/2016
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