Reviews
GoGo Penguin: Man Made Object
Rob Turner | Nick Blacka | Chris Illingworth
GoGo Penguin’s surging, anthemic sound has built a growing, enviably young audience as unsure and uncaring as them as to...
Reviewed in issue February/2016
Lionel Loueke: Gaia
Massimo Biolcati | Ferenc Nemeth | Lionel Loueke
Since bursting onto the jazz scene in the noughties, the Beninois guitar prodigy has carved a niche as much as...
Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2015/2016
Kendrick Scott Oracle: We Are The Drum
Lizz Wright | John Ellis | Mike Moreno | Kendrick Scott | Taylor Eigisti | Joe Sanders
If good sidemen affect the music of leaders then the converse may also hold true. In some ways this enjoyable...
Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2015/2016
Yaron Herman: Everyday
Yaron Herman is a very gifted jazz pianist. Perhaps he is too gifted, because on his own albums he always...
Reviewed in issue September/2015
Terence Blanchard & The E-Collective: Breathless
The same group gave a somewhat underwhelming performance at last year's Tampere Jazz Happening and though this recording is a...
Reviewed in issue August/2015
Robert Glasper Trio: Covered
Damion Reid | Robert Glasper | Vicente Archer
Several years ago it became something of a convention among soul artists to rush out an ‘in concert’ album just...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints: Live at Monterey Jazz Festival
Joey Baron | Lawrence Fields | Joe Lovano | Dave Douglas | Lina Oh
There is something predictably unpredictable about each Joe Lovano album release, which is never to stand still in one place...
Reviewed in issue May/2015
José James: Yesterday I Had The Blues: The Music Of Billie Holiday
José James | Jason Moran | John Patitucci | Eric Harland
After the somewhat inconsistent While You Were Sleeping, this is a definite return to winning ways for vocalist James. As...
Reviewed in issue May/2015
Marcus Miller: Afrodeezia
If Marcus Miller's bustlingly brilliant previous album Renaissance documented the sheer power and excitement of his road-toughened live band in...
Reviewed in issue May/2015
Album Interview: Charles Lloyd: Wild Man Dance
Gerald Clayton | Charles Lloyd | Miklós Lukács | Gerald Cleaver | Joe Sanders | Sokratis Sinopoulos
We are in an age of ‘good’ and ‘very good’ jazz recordings, but paradoxically none that seem likely to be...
Reviewed in issue May/2015
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