Reviews
Various Artists: Great Jazz – Great Drummers: Masters of New Orleans Drumming
Eleven drummers leaping, all from New Orleans, their inclusion here supporting this Upbeat CD’s compiler (and drummer) John Petters’ contention...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: November/2024
Josephine Davies’ Satori: Weatherwards
James Maddren | Dave Whitford | Josephine Davies | Alcyona Mick
Following 2020’s Buddhism-themed How Can We Wake? this fourth album from Josephine Davies’ Satori takes the saxophonist back to her...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: November/2024
OPA: Goldenwings
Ringo Thielmann | George Fattoruso | Airto | Hermeto Pascoal | Hugo Fattoruso | David Amaro
It would be glib to tag OPA as ‘the Uruguyan Azymuth’, but the brothers Fattoruso, keyboardist Hugo and drummer George,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2024
Anat Cohen: Bloom
Vitor Gonçalves | Tal Masiach | Anat Cohen | James Shipp
Cohen’s band Quartetinho (Portuguese for ‘little quartet’) already has one album to its name, and many years’ experience of the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2024
Claire Martin: Almost In Your Arms
Almost In Your Arms sees Martin reuniting with the all-Swedish trio featured on her superb 2019 album, Believin’ It, augmented...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2024
Mark Cherrie Quartet: Any Anxious Colour
"The steel pan of course has no particular history in jazz music itself, unlike many other instruments,” explains bandleader and...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2024
Kurtis Li: In Bloom
London-based guitarist and Berklee alumnus Kurtis Li possesses a formidable array of credentials, yet the mood of his debut album...
Reviewed by Gail Tasker in issue: October/2024
Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Aloft
For their ninth album together, these two prolific Japanese jazz giants continue their almost telepathic musical rapport while also providing...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2024
Franco Ambrosetti: Sweet Caress
Scott Colley | John Scofield | Franco Ambrosetti | Sarah Caswell | Alan Broadbent | Peter Erskine
An important figure in European jazz since the 1960s, Ambosetti was a founding member (and later associate director) of fellow...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2024
Phil Haynes’ 4 Horns & What?: The Complete American Recordings
Not a name that immediately springs to mind when recalling the 1980s-to-early-90s New York Downtown scene, drummer-percussionist-composer Phil Haynes was...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2024
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