Reviews
Judy Niemack: What's Love?
Joe Farnsworth | Peter Bernstein | Sullivan Fortner | Judy Niemack | Eric Alexander | Doug Weiss
Recorded over two days at the legendary Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, this fine new album from...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2023
Elton Dean Quartet: On Italian Roads: Live in Milan 1979
Harry Miller | Louis Moholo | Keith Tippett | Elton Dean
What a turn-up for the books this is! A concert at the Teatro Cristallo in Milan that captured four now...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2023
Masahiko Togashi: Session In Paris: Vol. One ‘Song Of Soil’
Charlie Haden | Don Cherry | Masahiko Togashi
The great Japanese percussionist Masahiko Togashi (1940-2007) grew up in a musical family – his father was a renowned jazz...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2023
James Brandon Lewis: MSM Molecular Systematic Music Live
Chad Taylor | Kirk Knuffke | Aruan Ortiz | Brad Jones | James Brandon Lewis
For the past decade American saxophonist James Brandon Lewis has been gathering an impressive head of creative steam through his...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2023
Sam Rivers Trio: Sam Rivers Archive Project Volume 6: Caldera
Sam Rivers | Anthony Cole | Doug Matthews
Throughout his lengthy career Sam Rivers had a seemingly inexhaustible reserve of energy and ideas, and his principle of ‘streams’...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2023
Nate Wooley & Columbia Icefield: Ancient Songs Of Burlap Heroes
Mat Maneri | Mary Halvorson | Nate Wooley | Ryan Sawyer | Susan Alcorn | Trevor Dunn
Before a note of music enters your ear, the design of this CD really catches the eye. The stunning photography...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2023
Ecka Mordecai: Promise & Illusion
Since 2015, London venue Cafe OTO has run an in-house label called Otoroku, reissuing archival nuggets and releasing performances recorded...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2023
Kirk Lightsey: Live At Smalls Jazz Club
Mark Whitfield | Victor Lewis | Santi DiBriano | Kirk Lightsey
The venerable Lightsey, who turns 86 this month, is often forgotten in the roll-call of Detroit pianists, falling between the...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2023
Lazro–Minor–Madiot–Chiésa–Marion: Sonoris Causa
Jouk Minor | Thierry Madiot | Daunik Lazro | Louis-Michel Marion | David Chiésa
One of those improv albums that features an exotic line-up of instruments (all of them at the low end of...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2023
Matt Carmichael: Marram
Matt Carmichael | Tom Potter | Charlie Stewart | Fergus McCreadie | Ali Watson
There's a cinematic quality about Scottish saxophonist Matt Carmichael's second album that recalls the Celtic jazz film scores of the...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: February/2023
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