Reviews
Phi-Psonics: The Cradle
Seth Ford-Young | Sylvain Carton | Mitchell Yoshida | Josh Collazo
Once Gondwana’s Matthew Halsall heard this album – originally released in the US as a limited edition vinyl LP –...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: July/2022
Mysteries of the Revolution: Longing for the Dawn
Jeff Parker | Andy Alexander | Vincenzo Lamagna | Dan Biro | Don Stuart | BB Davis
Spectacularly on the rock end of the jazz-rock spectrum, this is essentially a duo album driven by Biro’s virtuosic keys...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2022
Natsuki Tamura: Summer Tree
Another implacably engaging bulletin by trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and Satoko Fujii, the formerly Paul Bley-mentored virtuoso pianist (though on this...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2022
Ralph Lalama: Staycation
Clifford Barbaro | Nicole Pasternak Lalama | Ralph Lalama | Joe Magnarelli | Akiko Tsuruga
This is sub-titled ‘a family affair’ and so it is. Ms Pasternak (heard on three tracks) is Mrs Ralph Lalama...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2022
Mark Turner: Yam Yam
Recorded in 1994, the Young Lions resurgence was well under way by the time Turner made this, his debut as...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2022
Tuba Skinny: Magnolia Stroll
There’s a reason that traditional jazz bands abandoned the tuba in the late 1930s, which is that it constipates the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2022
The Erskine Trio: Live in Italy
Alan Pasqua | Darek Oles | Peter Erskine
The American drummer Peter Erskine’s credits range from fusion-jazz complexities with Weather Report and Steps Ahead to the subtle piano...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2022
Eliane Correa & La Revolución Orchestra: Signo de Fuego
London has long had a bubbling Latin jazz scene. Cuban music, especially, is flourishing, as evidenced by the plethora of...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2022
Olivier Chavet: Racines
Daniel Chavet | Heidi Bayer | Sebastian Scobel | Werner Lauscher | Olivier Chavet
Young drummer-composer Olivier Chavet’s Belgian-German quintet debut is titled Racines, translated from the French as ‘roots’. Chavet is a trained...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2022
Binker Golding: Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy
Daniel Casimir | Billy Adamson | Sam Jones | Binker Golding | Sarah Tandy
Binker & Moses helped set the UK New Jazz template, but Binker Golding has chafed against its tenets ever since....
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: July/2022
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