Reviews
Ben Crosland: Songs of Solace and Reflection
Deirdre Bencsik | Ben Crosland | Alan Barnes | Clare Bhabra | Steve Waterman | Theo Travis
Huddersfield-based bassist-composer (and Jazz Cat label owner) Ben Crosland's latest release, prompted by the 2020-21 pandemic lockdown, comprises rearrangements of...
Reviewed by Jon Clay in issue: March/2023
Pharoah Sanders: Live…
Walter Booker | Pharoah Sanders | Idris Muhammad | John Hicks
There are several notable concert recordings in the huge discography of the late Pharoah Sanders, above all the outstanding 1972...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2023
Sidney De Paris, Tommy Ladnier, Lee Collins: Great Jazz, Great Trumpets
This eclectic compilation was first issued by Jazz Crusade as Rare Cuts, Upbeat having now acquired this American label. Sidney...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2023
Jo Lawry: Acrobats
Linda May Han Oh | Allison Miller | Jo Lawry
This new album from Australian-born, NYC-based vocalist Jo Lawry is a fearless, freewheeling delight. Composed by fellow Aussie singer Gian...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2023
King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50
There's a single tear at the heart of this eight-disc extravaganza. Robert Fripp, after an Everest-scaled pause allows a lone...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2023
East Axis: No Subject
Matthew Shipp | Gerald Cleaver | Scott Robinson | Kevin Ray
‘Supergroup’ can be something of a throwaway term, but this gathering has players of sufficient stature to give the description...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2023
Donald Byrd: Four Classic Albums
The title of the first of the four Blue Note albums here is apt, as Off To The Races is...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2023
Dan Weiss: Dedication
Dan Weiss | Jacob Sacks | Thomas Morgan
Thinking from the groove up, and prioritising how improvisers might more often space and stretch melodies against beats more than...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: February/2023
Anat Cohen: Quartetinho
Tal Mashiach | James Shipp | Vitor Gonçalves | Anat Cohen
With a shared love of the Brazilian songbook serving as its aesthetic lodestar, this hugely enjoyable album from Anat Cohen's...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2023
Monty Alexander: The Montreux Years
Opening with a stunning 1995 solo performance of Alexander's original ‘The Serpent’, there's immediately no doubt that this latest Montreux...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2023
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