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Ron Caines/Martin Archer AXIS: Port Of Saints
This latest by the collaborative project of Brighton-based saxophonist Caines, and Sheffield multi-instrumentalist and Discus label boss Archer, extends the...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2022
Jon Balke/Siwan: Halfa
Norwegian ECM lifer Balke relentlessly explores musical connections, from his decade-long West African band E’Olen to this third album since...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2022
Ewan Bleach Quartet: Ewan the Night ‘n’ the Music
Colin Good | Ewan Bleach | John Kelly | Jim Ydstie | Martin Wheatley
Multi-reedman Bleach is a regular with the new young Metropolitan revivalist bands like Tuba Skinny and has recorded quite widely.Here...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: May/2022
Anat Cohen and Marcello Gonçalves: Reconvexo
Anat Cohen | Marcello Gonçalves
The New York-based clarinetist Anat Cohen is not nearly well-enough known in Europe, although she is already a major star...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2022
Brigitte Beraha: Blink
Brigitte Beraha | George Crowley | Tim Giles | Alcyona Mick
It’s curious how Beraha gets labelled as ‘experimental’. Isn’t any artist worth their salt, who tests boundaries and explores the...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2022
Grace Fox: Eleven O’Seven
Grace Fox is still a student at the Manhattan School of Music, but she is clearly ambitious and used social...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2022
Ornette Coleman: Genesis of Genius
This set, combining Something Else!!!! The Music of Ornette Coleman and Tomorrow Is The Question! The New Music of Ornette...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2022
Michael Leonhart Orchestra: The Normyn Suites
Michael Leonhart Orchestra | Michael Leonhart
The eponymous subject of this moving and powerful album is the bandleader Michael Leonhart’s 15-year-old mini dachshund, for whom the...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2022
Flora Purim: If You Will
Two tracks into If You Will, the first studio release in 15 years by Brazilian icon Flora Purim, comes the...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2022
Marco Tranchina/Smät Five: More Than Ever
Mikele Montolli | Alan Short | Andrea Solarino | Filippo Galli | Marco Tranchina
This all-Italian quintet recorded in London; indeed, its five members are resident here and appear in local clubs and on...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2022
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