Reviews
Hot Lips Page: Feelin’ High & Happy 1928-1953
Bobby Hackett is quoted in the liner notes, saying that in the mid-1930s the up-and-coming Page was signed to an...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2022
Dafnis Prieto ft Luciana Souza: Cantar
Matt Brewer | Luciana Souza | Martin Bejerano | Dafnis Prieto | Peter Apfelbaum
The ninth album for Grammy-winning Cuban-born drummer, composer and bandleader Dafnis Prieto is a well-crafted global winner. Larry Klein produces...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2022
Roamer: Lost Bees
Matthew Halpin | Lauren Kinsella | Simon Jermyn | Matthew Jacobson
Roamer are an improvising Irish quartet who reside in Berlin, Brooklyn, London and Dublin; and they make a point of...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2022
Chip Wickham: Cloud 10
Manchester’s Gondwana Records, under its founder Matthew Halsall, has provided a home for a parallel stream of contemporary UK jazz,...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: September/2022
Hélène Duret/ Synestet: Rôles
Benjamin Sauzereau | Sylvain Debaisieux | Maxime Rouayroux | Hélène Duret | Fil Caporali
Chamber jazz or art rock? If you don’t like driving down roads that lead you-know-not-where (I mean that principally in...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2022
Katalyst: Jazz Is Dead Series 2: Katalyst JID013
Los Angeles-based group Katalyst Collective has been around since 2014, with backing dates for Gary Bartz and Roy Ayers on...
Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: September/2022
Kirk Knuffke Trio: Gravity Without Airs
Michael Bisio | Matthew Shipp | Kirk Knuffke
American independent label Tao Forms has released music of consistently high quality over the past few years and this double...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2022
Charles Lloyd: Trios: Ocean
Anthony Wilson | Gerald Clayton | Charles Lloyd
The joy of Lloyd’s Trios project is that each of the three bands is an on-the-road working band; they’ve not...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2022
Avishai Cohen Trio: Shifting Sands
Elchin Shirinov | Roni Kaspi | Avishai Cohen
Following the orchestral manoeuvres of 2021's epic Two Roses, shape-shifting Israeli bassist Cohen returns to the trio format – and...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2022
Steve Baker: Tonic
Steve Baker is one of the myriad musicians and composers you will have heard but probably not heard of. As...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: September/2022
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