Reviews
Mette Henriette: Drifting
Mette Henriette | Judith Hamann | Johan Lindvall
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
Jesse Davis: Live at Smalls Jazz Club
Joe Farnsworth | Peter Washington | Spike Wilner | Jesse Davis
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
Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces Of A Man: 50th Anniversary Edition
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
Eliane Elias: Quietude
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
Serge Chaloff: Blue Serge
Philly Joe Jones | Leroy Vinnegar | Sonny Clark | Serge Chaloff
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
Buster Williams: Unalome
Buster Williams | Lenny White | Stefon Harris | Jean Baylor | Bruce Williams | George Colligan
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
Fred Frith/Susana Santos Silva: Laying Demons to Rest
Susana Santos Silva | Fred Frith
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
Phil Ranelin & Wendell Harrison: JIDO16
Al Shaheed-Muhammad | Adrian Younge | Phil Ranelin | Wendell Harrison
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
Nora Kamm: One
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
Various Artists: Transmissions From Total Refreshment Centre
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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