Purbayan Chatterjee: Abaad - Unbounded

Antonio Sanchez | Gary Husband | Ustad Rashid Khan | Ustad Zakir Hassain | Pratibha Singh Baghel | Purbayan Chatterjee | V Selvaganesh | Jordan Rudess | Gayathri Asokan | Shankar Mahadevan

As its English title suggests, this music heeds no boundaries of genre or geography. Abbad Unbounded has a dizzying reach,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2021

Petter Eldh: Projekt Drums Vol 1

Nate Wood | Petter Eldh | Richard Spaven | Eric Harland | James Maddren | Kit Downes | Wanja Slavin | Gard Nilssen | Jonas Kullhammar | Johannes Lauer

The branding doesn’t help, but studio-based music made since the 1990s, sometimes labelled as Nu-jazz or Jazztronica, to the jazz...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021

Dave Okumu: Knopperz

Guitarist-singer Okumu, a Mercury prize nominated artist from London’s F-ire Collective, follows his own understatedly inventive and spacious, genre-twisting vein...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021

Daniel Casimir: Boxed In

Ria Moran | Faye MacCalman | Samuel Rapley | Miranda Lewis | Tom Dunnet | Rosie Turton | Nubya Garcia | Sean Gibbs | Daniel Casimir | Rhiannon Dimond

Bassist Daniel Casimir’s thick, even tone and precise articulation have become a familiar sound on the new London jazz scene:...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: November/2021

Maraton

Lasse Sonne | Jonathan Ludvigsen | Maria Dybbroe | Christian Haase

At this stage, it’s difficult to pinpoint who was the first person to propose the idea of music conceived as...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2021

Chris Standring: Wonderful World

David Karasony | Randy Brecker | Harvey Mason | Geoff Gascoyne | Darek Oles | Kathrin Shorr | Chuck Berghofer | Chris Standring | Peter Erskine

Buckinghamshire -raised, LA-based guitarist Chris Standring has written a lot of original material across the past 30 years or so,...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2021

Barry Altschul's The 3dom Factor: Long Tall Sunshine

Recorded on a 2019 tour, the Paul Bley-associated drummer Altshul heads a power trio featuring prolific saxophonist Jon Irabagon and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021

Hiromi: Silver Lining Suite

Hiromi Urehara | Tatsuo Nishie | Meguna Naka | Sohei Birmann | Wataru Mukai

If anyone was going to come out fighting against the pandemic it was bound to be Hiromi Urehara. With the...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2021

Stan Getz/Astrud Gilberto: Live at the Berlin Jazztage 1966

Stan Getz | Roy Haynes | Chuck Israels | Gary Burton | Astrud Gilberto

This previously unissued concert by the Getz quartet with Gary Burton divides into what are in effect two distinctly different...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2021

Ray Charles: True Genius

Joe Newman | Clark Terry | Earl Warren | Al Grey | George Dorsey | Urbie Green | Roy Haynes | John Frosk | Joe Wilder | Freddie Green

When Ray Charles left Atlantic Records in 1960 and set up his own label Tangerine in partnership with ABC Paramount,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2021