Alex Hitchcock: Dream Band

Chris Cheek | Will Barry | Deschanel Gordon | Midori Jaegar | Cherise Adams-Burnett | Alex Hitchcock | Will Sach | Luisito Quintero | Jas Kayser | Jason Brown

Lockdown provided us all with a stream of solipsistic solo records. But Alex Hitchcock looks outside of himself on Dream...

Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Fred Frith Trio with Lotte Anker & Susana Santos Silva: Road

Susana Santos Silva | Jordan Glenn | Fred Frith | Lotte Anker | Jason Hoopes

Over the last couple of decades, Fred Frith has honed his extremely inventive solo electric guitar sets, for which he...

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

Fay Claassen & David Linx: And Still We Sing

Magnus Lindgren | Fay Claassen | David Linx

And Still We Sing would be an outstanding album based purely on the sirenic power of its two outstanding lead...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Rudolph Johnson: The Second Coming

Rudolph Johnson | Kent Brinkley | Kirk Lightsey | Doug Sides

In 1973 Ohio-born tenor sax player Rudolph Johnson and the other members of his quartet were still mining the rich...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Ayumi Tanaka Trio: Subaqueous Silence

Christian Meaas Svendsen | Ayumi Tanaka | Per Odvaar Johansen

The 35-year-old Japanese pianist moved to Norway 10 years ago, and has recorded one previous album with this trio and...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Allan’s Legacy: The 19 Men of Tain - A Tribute to Allan Holdsworth

Sebastiaan Cornelissen | Joel Taylor | Mike Stern | John Etheridge | Steve Lodder | Antoine Fafard | Alex Lofoco | Enrico Pinna | Ollie Usiskin | Jimmy Pallagrosi

Four years in the making, this intends to be the first of many releases from a charity project called Allan’s...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: December/January/2021/2022

Denise Donatelli: Whistling in the Dark – The Music of Burt Bacharach

Vocalist Donatelli sets out on a tastefully low-key exploration of both the lesser known and more popular hits of a...

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

Farzin Farhadi Trio and String Quartet: The Cure

American-Iranian saxophonist-composer Farhadi tugs at the heart strings with his string-laden contemporary jazz originals that chime with the achingly...

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

Itai Kriss & Telavana: Supermoon

This young Israeli-born flautist-composer knows how to have a good time in his music blending Afro-Cuban and funk sounds with...

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

Amir ElSaffar: The Other Shore

Dena ElSaffar | Mohamed Saleh | Tarek Abboushi | John Escreet | Carlo De Rosa | Ole Mathiesen | Amir ElSaffar | Zafer Tawil | George Ziadeh | Nasheet Waits

Encounters of African-American and Middle Eastern music have deep historical roots, as the work of anybody from Yusef Lateef and...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2021