Reviews
Sullivan Fortner: Southern Nights
Peter Washington | Sullivan Fortner | Marcus Gilmore
The legendary Sear Sound Studios on New York’s 48th Street seem to be as ideal a setting for recording this...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2025
Sam Coombes: Time of Life
Sam Coombes | Yoni Zelnik | Julien Charlet | Nico Morelli
This is the first album from polymath, multi-saxophonist Sam Coombes since the more frenetic Pace of Change (2016). It’s a...
Reviewed by Victoria Kingham in issue: March/2025
Adam Bałdych: Portraits
Dawid Fortuna | Andrzej Święs | Sebastian Zawadzki | Adam Bałdych | Marek Konarski
Quite often you can listen to programmatic music – where the composer tries to convey an extra-musical narrative – without...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2025
Marshall Allen: New Dawn
Was there ever a more astonishing career trajectory than Marshall Allen’s? Two days after his 100th birthday last year, he...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2025
Clora Bryant: Plays and Sings: Complete Recordings 1957-1960
I heard LA-based trumpeter Clora Bryant play, interviewed her and visited her home, eventually writing her obituary for The Guardian...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2025
Nikol Bóková: Feathers
Michał Wierzgoń | Nikol Bóková | Martin Kocián
Last November Nikol Bóková returned to London as part of the combined London Jazz Festival 2024 and 28th Made in...
Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: March/2025
Evan Parker: The Heraclitean Two Step, etc
In 2024 Evan Parker celebrated his 80th birthday after some six decades of performance as an improvising saxophonist. To mark...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: March/2025
Waldo’s Gift: Malcolm’s Law
James Vine | Harry Stoneham | Alun Elliot-Williams
The Waldo’s Gift story is well-known in their Bristol hometown: an instrumental guitar trio pulled together the night before for...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: March/2025
King Crimson: Red (50th Anniversary)
Even as this mega reissue was dropping through the letter box, Adrian Belew, who of course was not involved with...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2025
Steve Lehman Trio featuring Mark Turner: The Music Of Anthony Braxton
Matt Brewer | Damion Reid | Steve Lehman | Mark Turner
Although he is one of the most original composer-improvisers in creative music today saxophonist Steve Lehman has always readily acknowledged...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2025
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