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Nicole Johänntgen: Labyrinth II
David Stauffacher | Jon Hansen | Nicole Johänntgen
German sax player and composer Nicole Johänntgen’s latest release reunites the same trio from her 2023 album, Labyrinth, featuring...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2025
Ambrose Akinmusire: honey from a winter stone
Trumpeter Akinmusire has proved impressively versatile during his 15-year career and he follows 2023’s excellent trio session Owl Song with...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2025
Iúri Oliveira: Manifesto
At last year’s Festa Do Jazz in Lisbon percussionist Iúri Oliveira stood out in Duarte Ventura’s ensemble, arguably the best...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2025
John-Paul Muir featuring Brigitte Beraha: Home Now
Jakub Cywinski | Eric Ford | Brigitte Beraha | John-Paul Muir | George Crowley
Beauty distilled: from the opening intimacy of ‘Sunlight’, you know Home Now is special. Anjali Bhat’s disarmingly transparent lyrics celebrate...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2025
Dudley Phillips: Crayon Scrawl
Dudley Phillips has led a busy and varied musical existence since coming to prominence in the seminal 1990s Brit-jazz band...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: March/2025
Mama Terra: Chameleons (Live Interpretations of Herbie Hancock)
Konrad Wiszniewski | Ross Saunder | Marco Cafolla | Rachel Lightbody
The pianist Marco Cafolla who leads the Glasgow-based band Mama Terra was given the green light by Jazz FM to...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2025
Kjetil Mulelid Trio: And Now
Kjetil Mulelid | Andreas Winther | Rune Nergaard
This is the fourth album by Mulelid’s trio, the previous three albums on Rune Grammofon. Their debut from 2017, Not...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2025
Peace Flag Ensemble: Everything Is Possible
Michael Scott Dawson | Dalton Lam | John Neher | Mike Thievin | Travis Packer | Paul Gutheil
Opening your third album with a track entitled 'Paint Drying' is a hostage to fortune and, for the increasingly minimalist...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: March/2025
Noah Howard: Schizophrenic Blues: The Berlin Concert
Rightly lauded for his 1969 LP The Black Ark, alto saxophonist Noah Howard is an integral but somewhat unheralded figure...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2025
Roy Ayers Ubiquity: Tear To A Smile/Mystic Voyage/Everybody Loves The Sunshine/Vibrations/Lifeline
Given the huge reissue programme that the music of Roy Ayers has undergone since the 1990s, the ‘rare groove’ era...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2025
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