Reviews

Review of Mette Henriette: Drifting

Mette Henriette: Drifting

Mette Henriette | Judith Hamann | Johan Lindvall

Editor's Choice

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

In an interview with writer and ECM chronicler Steve Lake, the young Norwegian saxophonist, composer and multi-media artist Mette Henriette...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2023

Review of Jesse Davis: Live at Smalls Jazz Club

Jesse Davis: Live at Smalls Jazz Club

Joe Farnsworth | Peter Washington | Spike Wilner | Jesse Davis

Cellar Music

Rating: ★★★

New Orleans-born altoist Davis, now 57, studied under the late Ellis Marsalis in his home town and then made for...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2023

Review of Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces Of A Man: 50th Anniversary Edition

Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces Of A Man: 50th Anniversary Edition

string section | Hubert Laws | Johnny Pate | Bernard ‘Pretty’ Purdie | Gil Scott-Heron | Ron Carter | Burt Jones | Brian Jackson

Flying Dutchman/BGP

Rating: ★★★★★

A landmark in jazz and in 1970s American black music more generally, Pieces Of A Man represented a quantum leap...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2023

Review of Eliane Elias: Quietude

Eliane Elias: Quietude

Marc Johnson | Oscar Castro-Neves | Lula Galvão | Marcus Teixeira | Emílio Martins | Eliane Elias | Celso de Almeida

Editor's Choice

Candid Records

Rating: ★★★★

Fresh from bagging a Grammy last year for Mirror Mirror, her dazzling 2021 album of piano duets with the late...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2023

Review of Serge Chaloff: Blue Serge

Serge Chaloff: Blue Serge

Philly Joe Jones | Leroy Vinnegar | Sonny Clark | Serge Chaloff

Capitol

Today, when Chaloff is remembered (if he is remembered at all), it is as a soloist in Woody Herman's Second...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2023

Review of Buster Williams: Unalome

Buster Williams: Unalome

Buster Williams | Lenny White | Stefon Harris | Jean Baylor | Bruce Williams | George Colligan

Smoke Sessions Records

Rating: ★★★★

Williams is better known as a sideman than a leader, his career companions amounting to something of a ‘who's who’...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2023

Review of Fred Frith/Susana Santos Silva: Laying Demons to Rest

Fred Frith/Susana Santos Silva: Laying Demons to Rest

Susana Santos Silva | Fred Frith

Rogue Art

Rating: ★★★

Silva's fierce horn has lent itself to the likes of Hedvig Mollestad's epic Ekhidna and here she's joined with another...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2023

Review of Phil Ranelin & Wendell Harrison: JIDO16

Phil Ranelin & Wendell Harrison: JIDO16

Al Shaheed-Muhammad | Adrian Younge | Phil Ranelin | Wendell Harrison

Jazz Is Dead

Rating: ★★

Producer-multi-instrumentalists Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed-Muhammad continue their mission to shine a light on the largely forgotten heroes of independent...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2023

Review of Nora Kamm: One

Nora Kamm: One

Isabel Gonzalez | Ranto Rakotomalala | Paco Séry | Nicholas Vella | Rama Diaw | Colin Laroche de Féline | Monika Kabasele | Dharil Esso | Nora Kamm | Nguyên Lê

Duya Music

Rating: ★★★

Arriving in Paris in 2018, Nora Kamm was clearly swept into the city's legendarily vibrant World Music scene. Previously known...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: March/2023

Review of Various Artists: Transmissions From Total Refreshment Centre

Various Artists: Transmissions From Total Refreshment Centre

Brother Portrait & XVNGO | Neue Grafik | Soccer96 & Kieron Boothe | Byron Wallen | Jake Long | Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange & Noah Slee Isa | Matters Unknown

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★

Blue Note Records continues to play a savvy game with the UK market. After two editions of its Re:imagined series,...

Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: March/2023

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