Reviews
Ambrose Akinmusire: The Imagined Savior is Far Easier To Paint
This is trumpeter Akinmusire's second album on the Blue Note label that follows the critically acclaimed When the Heart Emerges...
Reviewed in issue May/2014
Thelonious Monk: Paris 1969
Thelonious Monk | Charlie Rouse | Nate | Paris Wright | Philly Joe Jones
This was apparently the last concert of a six-week tour with an inexperienced rhythm-section. I remember being harsh in print...
Reviewed in issue April/2014
Gregory Porter: Liquid Spirit
The central media story here is ‘major label debut’ but that’s not the only point of interest. Although Porter’s lordly...
Reviewed in issue September/2013
Album Interview: Erik Truffaz Quartet: El Tiempo de la Revolución
Marc Erbetta | Marcello Giuliani | Anna Aaron | Erik Truffaz | Benoît Corboz
With over 15 Blue Notes now to his name, the French-Swiss trumpeter Erik Truffaz' discography has been as patchy as...
Reviewed in issue March/2013
Wayne Shorter Quartet: Without a Net
Wayne Shorter | John Patitucci | Brian Blade | Danilo Pérez
It was 44 years ago that Wayne Shorter made his debut on the Blue Note label, as a precocious 26-year-old...
Reviewed in issue March/2013
José James: No Beginning No End
Cynics may decry this latest chapter in the 33 year-old American vocalist's career as his lunge for the commercial jugular...
Reviewed in issue February/2013
Album Interview: Van Morrison: Born to Sing: No Plan B
Van Morrison has jazz in his blood, only a fool would think otherwise, and Born to Sing is the latest...
Reviewed in issue October/2012
Avishai Cohen: Duende
Avishai Cohen | Nitai Hershkovits
The charismatic double bassist Avishai Cohen has proved one of the biggest contemporary draws on the jazz club and international...
Reviewed in issue August/2012
Ravi Coltrane: Spirit Fiction
Spirit Fiction is saxophonist Ravi Coltrane's Blue Note debut, the label's cachet such that it immediately attracts the attention of...
Reviewed in issue July/2012
Dave Stapleton: Flight
Mike Mitchell | Jeremy Dutton | Burniss Traviss | James Francies | Mike Moreno | Joel Ross
Flight is an important step in the career of Dave Stapleton and marks a temporary break from his quintet that...
Reviewed in issue November/2018
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