Reviews

Review of Asha Parkinson's Kalpadruma: Possession

Asha Parkinson's Kalpadruma: Possession

Hamish Nockles-Moore | Rebecka Edlund | Alex Wilson | Gareth Lockrane | Konstantinos Glynos | Asha Parkinson | Alex Taylor | Chloe Meade | Meera Maharaj | Simeon May

Ubuntu Music

If Onwards was a striking debut from Parkinson, then Possession marks a deepening of her skills as an arranger and...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2024

Review of Kavyesh Kaviraj: Fables

Kavyesh Kaviraj: Fables

Kavyesh Kaviraj | Kevin Washington | MMYYKK | Pete Whitman | Pawan Benjamin | Ernest Bisong | Aby Wolf | Jeff Bailey | Omar Abdulkarim

Shifting Paradigm

Rating: ★★★★

Shifting Paradigm Records is an enterprising Minneapolis-based label which seems to have made a speciality of releasing surprisingly good albums...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2024

Review of Nala Sinephro: Endlessness

Nala Sinephro: Endlessness

Orchestrate | Nubya Garcia | Lyle Barton | Dwayne Kilvington | Natcyet Wakili | James Mollison | Nala Sinephro | Sheila Maurice-Grey | Morgan Simpson

Editor's Choice

Warp Records

Rating: ★★★★

In 2018, Nala Sinephro set the music world alight with her debut studio album, Space 1.8. It featured a cast...

Reviewed by Gail Tasker in issue: October/2024

Review of John Christensen: Soft Rock

John Christensen: Soft Rock

Tony Barba | Joshua Catania | Matt Gould | John Christensen | Neil Hemphill

Shifting Paradigm

Rating: ★★★

Shifting Paradigm Records is an enterprising Minneapolis-based label which seems to have made a speciality of releasing surprisingly good albums...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2024

Review of Dorothy Ashby: Afro-Harping

Dorothy Ashby: Afro-Harping

James Slaughter | Dorothy Ashby | Phil Upchurch | plus Chicago Symphony string section | Benjamin George Cook | Morris Jennings | Lennie Druss | Richard Evans | Eddie De Haas | Charles Stepney

Verve

Rating: ★★★★★

If last year’s New Land box set With Strings Attached (see Jazzwise 287), helped reawaken interest in Dorothy Ashby, this...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2024

Review of Alice Zawadzki/Fred Thomas/Misha Mullov-Abbado: Za Górami

Alice Zawadzki/Fred Thomas/Misha Mullov-Abbado: Za Górami

Fred Thomas | Misha Mullov-Abbado | Alice Zawadzki

Editor's Choice

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

This recording by the vocal chamber trio of singer-violinist Zawadzki, double bassist Mullov-Abbado and multi-instrumentalist Thomas is a meeting of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2024

Review of Lux Quartet: Tomorrowland

Lux Quartet: Tomorrowland

Scott Colley | Allison Miller | Dayna Stephens | Myra Melford

Editor's Choice

Enja/Yellowbird

Rating: ★★★★

Myra Melford and Allison Miller have a history together. Melford may seem to have the more heavyweight avant-garde credentials –...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: October/2024

Review of Pete Malinverni: An American in London

Pete Malinverni: An American in London

Dave Green | Steve Brown | Pete Malinverni

PX Records

Rating: ★★★★

New York pianist Malinverni came over twice last year as MD/accompanist to singer Anaïs Reno for her successful Pizza Express...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2024

Review of Monika Herzig's Sheroes : All In Good Time

Monika Herzig's Sheroes : All In Good Time

Rosa Avila | Jamie Baum | Leni Stern | Reu Regev | Camille Thurman | Monika Herzig | Gina Schwarz

ZOHO ZM

Hopefully time will come when bands won’t feel the need to promote themselves as ‘all-female’. But Herzig's Sheroes remain proud...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2024

Review of Transatlantic Trance Map: Marconi's Drift

Transatlantic Trance Map: Marconi's Drift

Matthew Wright | Mat Manieri | Ikue Mori | Pat Thomas | Sam Pluta | Evan Parker | Peter Evans | Alex Ward | Roulette: Sylvie Courvoisier | Hannah Marshall

False Walls

Over 15 years Evan Parker and Matthew Wright's electro-acoustic project Trance Map has become ever more ambitious. This event represented...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: October/2024

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