Immanuel Wilkins: The 7th Hand

Immanuel Wilkins | Jamal Dickerson | Elena Pinderhughes | Daryl Johns | Kweku Sumbry | Micah Thomas | Adrian Somerville Jr. | Agyei Keita Edwards | Yao Akoto

Following the buzz around his debut Omega released in 2020 on Blue Note, the 24-year-old Philadelphia born-and-raised alto saxophonist-composer Immanuel...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2022

Joe Venuti & Eddie Lang: Stringing The Blues – their 52 finest 1926-1933

Benny Goodman | Eddie Lang | Bud Freeman | Bix Beiderbecke | Arthur Schutt | Jimmy Dorsey | Roger Wolfe Khan | Annette Hanshaw | Don Murray | Miff Mole

Retrospective’s 2-CD selection of the music produced by these two Italian-American swing virtuosos together and occasionally, separately, is a welcome...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2022

Mark Lockheart: Dreamers

Mark Lockheart | Elliot Galvin | Tom Herbert | Dave Smith

If jazz is the music of sweet certain surprise, then Lockheart is the man for you. His last two Edition...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2022

Christian Lillinger: Konus

Want to know what avant-jazz German drummer Lillinger got up to in lockdown? Then listen to this rather quirky one-man...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2022

Sinne Eeg & Thomas Fonnesbæk: Staying In Touch

Sinne Eeg | Karen Johanne Pedersen | Thomas Fonnesbæk | Andrea Gyarfas Brahe | Jesper Riis | Live Johansson | Deanna Said

To my shame, I have to admit that this is my first encounter with Danish singer Sinne Eeg. Where her...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2022

Archie Shepp & Mal Waldron: Left Alone

Mal Waldron | Archie Shepp

Almost two decades have elapsed since the release of this gorgeous album, an object lesson in the art of the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Nala Sinephro: Space 1.8

Eddie Hick | Wonky Logic | Nubya Garcia | Lyle Barton | Shirley Tetteh | Rudi Creswick | Ahnansé | James Mollison | Jake Long | Twm Dylan

The debut album of Nala Sinephro – composer, harp and synthesizer player – is vast but not desolate, weaving a...

Reviewed by Christine Hannigan in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson: Searching For The Disappeared Hour

Sylvie Courvoisier | Mary Halvorson

Swiss pianist and long-term Brooklyn resident Sylvie Courvoisier, and NYC guitarist Mary Halvorson first recorded together in 2017, releasing the...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Abdullah Ibrahim: Solotude: My Journey My Vision

Abdullah Ibrahim

Every solo concert by Abdullah Ibrahim is a journey, a pianistic monologue that tells stories from past and present and...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Chris Maddock: The Hunt EP

Sticking to a tried-and-tested format runs the risk of sounding too derivative but Birmingham Conservatoire grad saxophonist-composer Chris Maddock’s take...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: December/January/2021/2022