Reviews

Review of Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant: Seances

Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant: Seances

Mary Halvorson | Mariel Roberts | Anna Webber | Carla Kihlstedt | Oscar Noriega | Ches Smith | Trevor Dunn

Editor's Choice

Pyroclastic Records

Rating: ★★★★

Hope you’ve not been holding your breath since Trio Convulsant’s debut, because that was 18 years ago and you’d be...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2022

Review of Booker Little: Out Front

Booker Little: Out Front

Eric Dolphy | Booker Little | Julian Priester | Art Davis | Max Roach | Ron Carter | Don Friedman

Candid

Rating: ★★★★

One of the crowning glories of the Candid catalogue, Out Front is also a bittersweet listening experience given the tragedy...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2022

Review of Makaya McCraven: In These Times

Makaya McCraven: In These Times

Macie Stewart | Jeff Parker | Irvin Pierce | Brandee Younger | Rob Clearfield | Marta Sofia Honer | Marquis Hill | Junius Paul | Greg Spero | Lia Kohl

Editor's Choice

International Anthem/Nonesuch/XL Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Over the course of seven albums, drummer Makaya McCraven has established a position at the forefront of progressive-minded jazz internationalists:...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: November/2022

Review of The Comet is Coming: Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam

The Comet is Coming: Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam

Max Hallett | Dan Leavers | Shabaka Hutchings

Impulse! Records

Rating: ★★★★

Hutchings recently called time on Sons of Kemet, no surprise given the launch of his label Native Rebel Recordings, and...

Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: November/2022

Review of Various Artists: Classic Black & White Jazz Sessions

Various Artists: Classic Black & White Jazz Sessions

Marge Hyams | Dizzy Gillespie | Charlie Ventura | Leonard Feather | Teddy Napoleon | Erroll Garner | Sam Weiss | Charlie Beal | Dick Cary | Charles Mingus

Editor's Choice

Mosaic

Rating: ★★★★

The middle of a World War, during a national shortage of shellac, might seem the craziest time to start a...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2022

Review of Clark Terry: Color Changes

Clark Terry: Color Changes

Budd Johnson | Seldon Powell | Julius Watkins | Jimmy Knepper | Tommy Flanagan | Ed Shaughnessy | Clark Terry | Yusef Lateef | Joe Benjamin

Candid

Rating: ★★★★

Although Yusef Lateef gets a solo name billing on the front of this album (part of Candid’s fine reissue programme),...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2022

Review of Bill Laurance: Affinity

Bill Laurance: Affinity

Bill Laurance

Flint Music

Rating: ★★★

Bill Laurance is one of the original members of the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Snarky Puppy, a postmodern quasi-collective regularly boasting...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2022

Review of Joe Harriott Quintet: Swings High

Joe Harriott Quintet: Swings High

Coleridge Goode | Phil Seamen | Joe Harriott | Stu Hamer | Pat Smythe

Cadillac

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded five years before his untimely death, Swings High is one of Joe Harriott’s lesser-rated works, certainly on the collector’s...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2022

Review of The Brother Moves On: $/He Who Feeds You Owns You

The Brother Moves On: $/He Who Feeds You Owns You

Muhammad Dawjee | Siyabonga Mthembu | Malcolm Jiyane | Simphiwe Tshabalala | Mthunzi Mvubua | Bokani Dyer | Shabaka Hutchings | Zelizwe Mthembu | Ayanda Zalekile

Native Rebel

Rating: ★★★★

Jo’burg collective The Brother Moves On continue their genre leaping with this, their fourth album, a studio recording both wildly...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2022

Review of Claudia Acuña: Duo

Claudia Acuña: Duo

Kenny Barron | Christian McBride | Carolina Calvache | Russell Malone | Regina Carter | Arturo O’Farrill | Claudia Acuña | Fred Hersch

Ropeadope

Rating: ★★★★

A new recording from Chilean vocalist Claudia Acuña is always cause for celebration, doubly so when it’s as thoughtfully programmed...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2022

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