Reviews
Alabaster DePlume: A Blade Because A Blade Is Whole
Saxophonist, composer and poet DePlume displayed a remarkable capacity for writing minimal tunes filled with deeply moving melodies on his...
Reviewed by Ammar Kalia in issue: April/2025
light.box + Tom Challanger: Eyre
Pierre Alexandre Tremblay | Tom Challenger | Alex Bonney
light.box is the duo of trumpeter Alex Bonney and bassist Pierre Alexandre Tremblay, both of whom also add a rich...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2025
Sachal Vasandani: Best Life Now
Following two intimate duet albums, Still Life (2022) and Midnight Shelter (2021) with French-born, New York-based pianist Romain Collin, US...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2025
The Alexander Bryson Trio: Live at Mike’s!
Jeremy Brown | Matt Fishwick | Alex Bryson
Bryson’s 2019 trio album appeared on Matt Fishwick’s Hard Bop label, with Brown and Fishwick himself in support. Reviews, including...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2025
Rahel Talts: New and Familiar
This young Estonian pianist and composer is mostly based in Copenhagen these days, from whence she sallies forth on a...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: April/2025
Charlie Parker: Bird In Kansas City
Jay McShann | Edward ‘Little Phil’ Phillips | Charlie Parker | Efferge Ware | Joe Coleman
This album, containing the first new unreleased Parker for nearly a decade, came out in the US some months ago....
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2025
Jon Irabagon: Server Farm
Saxophonist Jon Irabagon has proved to be as ambitious as he is prolific over the past decade and this new...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2025
Kenny Barron & Buster Williams: The Complete Two As One
Kenny Barron | Buster Williams
Having lately seen the now 83-year-old Barron in feline action with his trio at Ronnie Scott’s and noted yet again...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2025
Giovanni Tommasso: Via GT
Danilo Rea | Paolo Fresu | Roberto Gatto | Massimo Urbani | Giovanni Tommaso
Giovanni Tommaso might be a name unfamiliar to some UK listeners, but he is regarded by many in Italy as...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2025
Elliot Galvin: The Ruin
Back in 2019 the Elliot Galvin Trio recorded Modern Times live-mixed and cut direct to vinyl as ‘a quiet protest...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: March/2025
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