Reviews
Walter Bishop Jnr’s 4th Cycle: Keeper Of My Soul
Shakur M Abdulla | Walter Bishop | Woody Murray | Gerald Brown | Ronnie Laws | Bahir Hassan
Held in high regard in collectors’ circles for albums such as Soul Village and Coral Keys, pianist Walter Bishop Jnr...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Burnt Belief: Mutual Isolation
Vinny Sabatino | Andi Pupato | Aleksei Saks | Colin Edwin | Jon Durant
As with many current releases, Edwin and Durant weren’t able to come together to record, but instead shared files. To...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Steve Coleman & Five Elements: Live At Village Vanguard Vol. 2 (Mdw Ntr)
Jonathan Finlayson | Sean Rickman | Kokayi | Anthony Tidd | Steve Coleman
New York’s Village Vanguard could not have been a more adequate venue for Steve Coleman & Five Elements to celebrate...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022
James Brandon Lewis quartet: Code Of Being
Chad Taylor | Aruan Ortiz | Brad Jones | James Brandon Lewis
Having made a fine album with his Red Lily quintet in 2021, Jesup’s Wagon, tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis returns...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Irreversible Entanglements: Open The Gates
Camae Ayewa | Tcheser Holmes | Keir Neuringer | Aquiles Navarro | Luke Stewart
The Philadelphia, New York and Washington DC-based quintet’s third studio recording is their first double album – and finds them...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Various Artists: Bebop: Pioneers and Classic Performances 1941-49
We are regularly reminded that bebop was a stylistic revolution in jazz but also that, from the viewpoint of later...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2021/2022
The Elliott Henshaw Band: Who’d Have Guest?
‘Being heavily influenced by the likes of Dave Grusin, The Yellowjackets, Al Jarreau and David Sanborn,’ in-demand drummer and percussionist...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Pasquale Grasso: Pasquale Plays Duke
Keith Balla | Pasquale Grasso | Ari Roland | Sheila Jordan | Samara Joy
Reviewing Grasso’s last release, a solo guitar album dedicated to Bud Powell, and showing artistic interaction between subject and performer...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Vels Trio: Celestial Greens
Jack Stephenson Oliver | Dougal Taylor | Cameron Dawson
This long-awaited debut album sees the Brighton-to-London young guns finally follow up on their 2017 Yellow Ochre EP. The intervening...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Secret Sessions: Hoop
Paul Booth likes to set a challenge: the Secret Sessions are based on the precept that no-one knows who they...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: December/January/2021/2022
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