Reviews
Dezron Douglas: Atalaya
Dezron Douglas | Melvis Santa | Joe Dyson Jr | George Burton | Emilio Modeste
A protége of Jackie McLean, a DownBeat magazine 2019 Rising Star and a performer with Pharoah Sanders, Ravi Coltrane, Cyrus...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Hilario Durán/David Virelles: Front Street Duets
Hilario Durán | David Virelles
The use of the piano in Cuban music goes back a long way, paralleling its use in jazz. And the...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Connie Han: Secrets Of Inanna
Connie Han | John Patitucci | Rich Perry | Bill Wysaske | Katisse Buckingham
Born in the US to Chinese parents, Han is 26 and already has three previous albums to her name. The...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Robert Glasper: Black Radio (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
By the time he made Black Radio in 2012, Robert Glasper was one of the biggest new names in jazz,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Various Artists: John Sinclair Presents Detroit Artists Workshop: Community, Jazz and Art in the Motor City 1965–81
Hard to find music made by African-American improvisers for independent labels, from Black Jazz to Strata-East to Tribe, has had...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Corrie Dick: Sun Swells
Corrie Dick wears his prodigious rhythmic education lightly, having studied with Ghanaian master Sadiq Addy alongside mind-blowing times in Morocco,...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
O'Higgins & Luft: Pluto
Rod Youngs | Rob Luft | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Ross Stanley | Dave O'Higgins
Three years ago the O'Higgins/Luft alliance mined a rich vein covering the songs of Coltrane and Monk on the appropriately...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet: Mondays At The Enfield Tennis Academy
Eric Revis | Josh Johnson | Nasheet Waits | Jay Bellerose | Anna Butterss | Jeff Parker
Not that he needs to convince those who have been paying attention for over two decades, but Jeff Parker strengthens...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Joe Harriott: Quintet at the BBC
This is a portrait of Joe Harriott, working musician – the liner notes are headed ‘The Rake's Progress’ – framed...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Whit Dickey Quartet: Root Perspectives
Matthew Shipp | Brandon Lopez | Whit Dickey | Tony Malaby
Remember those times when pianist Matthew Shipp announced he was retiring from recording? Fortunately he's as adept at the U-turn...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Dec/Jan/2022/2023
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