Reviews

Review of Nubya Garcia : Odyssey

Nubya Garcia : Odyssey

Sam Jones | Nubya Garcia | Joe Armon-Jones | Daniel Casimir

Editor's Choice

Concord Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

This new album from the multi-award-winning tenorist, bandleader and composer, Nubya Garcia, which follows her 2020 release on Concord Jazz,...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2024

Review of Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding: Milton + esperanza

Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding: Milton + esperanza

Justin Tyson | Corey D King | Milton Nascimento | Matthew Stevens | esperanza spalding | Eric Doob | Leo Genovese

Editor's Choice

Concord Records

Sumptuous arrangements, sparkling duets, an alluringly structured song list, with playing and singing that immediately takes up residence in your...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: October/2024

Review of Jack Magnet Science: Future Forecast

Jack Magnet Science: Future Forecast

Siggi Baldursson | Einar Scheving | Matthew Garrison | Gudmundur Petursson | Thorleifur Gaukur Davíðsson | Joel Palsson | DISA | Ari Bragi Karason | Phil Doyle | Egil Olafssonl

FLOKI Studios

Rating: ★★

You really want to like this album. After all, there are foremost fusioneers on board, like Peter Erskine (Weather Report)...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2024

Review of Mike Stern: Echoes and Other Songs

Mike Stern: Echoes and Other Songs

Antonio Sanchez | Chris Potter | Jim Beard | Dennis Chambers | Mike Stern | Christian McBride | Leni Stern | Bob Franceschini | Richard Bona | Arto Tunçboyacian

Editor's Choice

Artistry Music

Rating: ★★★★

The death of keyboardist Jim Beard at the age of 63 in March this year left many in deep shock,...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: September/2024

Review of Tarbaby: You Think This America

Tarbaby: You Think This America

Eric Revis | Orrin Evans | Nasheet Waits

Editor's Choice

Giant Step Arts

Rating: ★★★★

The 53 year-old New York drummer Nasheet Waits (raised by a famous percussionist father, Freddie Waits, and mentored by Max...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2024

Review of Mark Guiliana: MARK

Mark Guiliana: MARK

Mark Guiliana

Edition Records

Rating: ★★★★

You can’t get much more contemporary than the singular drummer-composer Mark Guiliana. Yet he often seems contrary in his musical...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2024

Review of Gregory Groover Sextet: Lullaby

Gregory Groover Sextet: Lullaby

Marcus Gilmore | Vicente Archer | Gregory Groover Jr | Aaron Parks | Joel Ross | Matthew Stevens

Criss Cross

Rating: ★★★

The wonderfully-named Gregory Groover delights us here with his second album, which is also his debut for the prestigious Criss...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: September/2024

Review of Antonio Faraò: Tributes

Antonio Faraò: Tributes

John Patitucci | Jeff Ballard | Antonio Faraò

Criss Cross

Rating: ★★★

Antonio Faraò is not messing about: this album of trio performances leaps right in with the gospelly/modernist intro of the...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: September/2024

Review of Martin Küchen’s Angles & Elle-Kari Sander with Strings: Death of Kalypso

Martin Küchen’s Angles & Elle-Kari Sander with Strings: Death of Kalypso

Mats Äleklint | Mattias Ståhl | Konrad Agnas | Fredrik Ljungkvist | Magnus Broo | Johan Berthling | Elle- Kari Sander | Eirik Hegdal | Brusk Zanganeh | Anna Lindal

Thanatosis Produktion

Rating: ★★★

If nothing else, the Swedish band Angles enjoys the game of musical chairs. A sextet called Angles 6 in 2007,...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2024

Review of Louis Hayes: Artform Revisited

Louis Hayes: Artform Revisited

Louis Hayes | David Hazeltine | Dezron Douglas | Steve Nelson | Abraham Burton

Savant

Rating: ★★★★

This group’s earlier Savant release was reviewed favourably in Jazzwise 286 and rightly so. This time, as the album title...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: September/2024

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