Reviews
Prince Lasha Quintet featuring Sonny Simmons: The Cry!
Gary Peacock | Price Lasha | Mark Proctor | Gene Stone | Sonny Simmons
This is another of Craft’s reissues of the Contemporary catalog, and once again the facsimile pressing and package are superior...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2024
Janel & Anthony: New Moon In An Evil Age
Janel Leppin | Anthony Pirog | Dr Ali Analouei | Devin Hoff
Here's a pair of very different releases from the wondrous Cuneiform label, both of them featuring cellist Janel Leppin and...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2024
Dom Franks’ Strayhorn: Duality pt.1
Anders Olinder | Matt Hopkins | Andrew Tween | Dom Franks | John Paul Gard
Beginning as an orchestral clarinettist and chorister, Dom Franks studied jazz under Jean Toussaint and became a lover of soul...
Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: October/2024
Christian Sands: Embracing Dawn
This album was conceived by Sands (who wrote all the material save for a somewhat abstract version of ‘Good Morning...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2024
Janel Leppin & Ensemble Volcanic Ash: To March Is To Love
Larry Ferguson | Anthony Pirog | Sarah Hughes | Luke Stewart | Brian Settles | Janel Leppin
Here's a pair of very different releases from the wondrous Cuneiform label, both of them featuring cellist Janel Leppin and...
Reviewed by Martin Longley in issue: October/2024
James Williams / Dennis Irwin: Focus
Pianist James Williams was a key figure in the history of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, the link man between the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2024
Elaine Mitchener : Solo Throat
In his revolutionary 1939 text Cahier D’un Retour Au Pays Natal (‘Notes On A Return To My Native Land’) the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2024
Marius Neset & Leif Ove Andsnes: Who We Are
Ingrid Neset | Louisa Tuck | Marius Neset | Leif Ove Andsnes
In 2011, I was invited to chair the Young Nordic Jazz Comets competition, held annually in Scandinavia to identify the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2024
Matt Mitchell: Zealous Angles
Dan Weiss | Matt Mitchell | Chris Tordini
On his sixth album for Pi Recordings, pianist Matt Mitchell makes his concept clear with a vividly expressive title. Zealous...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2024
John Law and Jon Lloyd : Naissance
I am not the first person to point out that this is a very ECM-ish sort of work, and in...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2024
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