Shirley Smart & Robert Mitchell: Zeitgeist2

Shirley Smart | Robert Mitchell

Pianist Robert Mitchell and cellist Shirley Smart have been collaborating for several years now, notably on the former’s Invocation and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2022

Dizzy Gillespie and Lalo Schifrin: Studio and Live Collaborations 1960-62

Arnette Sparrow | Dizzy Gillespie | Leo Wright | Mel Lewis | Urbie Green | Ernie Royal | John Frosk | Joe Wilder | Elek Bacsik | Clark Terry

When Dizzy Gillespie’s big band went on a State Departmemt tour of Argentina in 1960, the trumpeter was so impressed...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: March/2022

Nick McLean: Can You Hear Me?

The young Toronto-based pianist Maclean’s Covid-period solo recording is purposeful and full of succinctly good ideas helped along by his...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2022

Avishai Cohen: Naked Truth

Ziv Ravitz | Yonathan Avishai | Barak Mori | Avishai Cohen

This haunting album is barely 37 minutes long, but since the trumpet-playing Avishai Cohen is a master of doing more...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2022

Kinetika Bloco: Legacy

Sheila Maurice Grey | Theon Cross | Nubya Garcia | Claude Deppa | Paul Goumou | Richie Seivwright | Artie Zaitz | Shayanna Dyer Harris | David Mrakpor | Kaidi Akinnibi

Kinetika Bloco are a phenomenon – over the last 20 years the percussion-and-horn-heavy collective have evolved their own irresistible version...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: March/2022

Kit Downes/Petter Eldh/James Maddren: Vermillion

James Maddren | Kit Downes | Petter Eldh

UK jazz lovers will recognise this trio as ENEMY, although here each individual member is credited. It’s Downes’ third album...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2022

Red Kite: Apophenian Bliss

Even Helte Hermansen | Torstein Lofthus | Bernt André Moen | Trond Frones

Elephant9’s recent epic releases have made them the breakthrough band in Norway’s hard jazz-rock scene, which uses electric Miles and...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2022

Daniel Blumberg: The World To Come (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Yoni Silver | Josephine Foster | Alex Ward | Daniel Blumberg | Ute Kanngiesser | Steve Noble | Peter Brötzmann | Tom Wheatley | Billy Steiger

London-based artist and musician Daniel Blumberg has an eclectic portfolio that includes collaborations with saxophonist Seymour Wright as the duo...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2022

Bodhiheart (featuring Mark Egan): Love Rules

The cellist Noah Hoffeld at times can sound like a pedal steel guitar or an achingly romantic classical singer heading...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2022

Harriet Riley & Alex Garden: Sonder II

Alex Garden | Harriet Riley | Pete Judge | Stevie Toddler

The Bristol-based BLOOM collective is a network of remarkably open-minded young musicians whose various incarnations include Japanese art-pop, contemporary neo-classical...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: March/2022