Mark Kavuma & The Banger Factory: Arashi No Ato

Shayana Harris | Theon Cross | Marcina Arnold | David Mrakpor | Trevor Edwards | Leena Chabula | Livi Graham | Deji Ijishakin | Mussabinghi Brian Edwards | Felicia Thanide Bhebhe

Ugandan-British trumpeter Mark Kavuma has been one of the notable self-starters in UK jazz over the last decade or so.Banger...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2021

Julian Hesse: Troubleshooter

This Munich-based trumpeter-composer’s skeletal bass-drums trio probes the borders of free bop and rock music and although the ensemble dynamism...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021

Jake Baldwin: Where You’re Planted

The debut album from this Minneapolis born trumpeter has warm echoes of west coast lyricism mixed with a bit of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021

Täpp Collective: i do what i like//i like what i do

Rebekah Reid | Abbi Phillips | Is Phi | Ayo Salawu | Alex Hill | Contours | Rhodri Thomas | Delali and Chantelle Gabriella Jazz

Täpp Collective’s debut album, i do what i like//i like what i do, is a voyage through an intriguing, otherworldly...

Reviewed by Christine Hannigan in issue: November/2021

Madeleine Peyroux: Careless Love

Scott Amendola | Kevin Hays | David Piltch | Matt Penman | Lee Thornburg | Dean Parks | Larry Goldings | Madeleine Peyroux | Jay Bellerose

First issued back in 2004 on Rounder, Peyroux’s second album Careless Love was an instant, and massive, international hit. And...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: November/2021

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle

Pharoah Sanders | Donald ‘Rafael’ Garrett | John Coltrane | Jimmy Garrison | Carlos Ward | McCoy Tyner | Elvin Jones

Three years ago the release of Both Directions At Once offered up something genuinely new; unearthed tapes of Coltrane playing...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: November/2021

Paul Edis: The Still Point of the Turning World

There have been whispers among lovers of the previous century’s ‘classic’ jazz piano of a new hope in London-based pianist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021

Bakithi Kumalo: What You Hear Is What You See

A five times Grammy award-winning Johannesburg-born New York-based bassist retraces his sound odyssey through the African continent and US with...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2021

Asaf Sirkis: Solar Flash

Asaf Sirkis | Kevin Glasgow | Silwia Bialas | Sun Ra | Mark Wingfield | Gary Husband

Well-established überdrummer Asaf Sirkis is much in demand, so it’s maybe understandable that it’s been eight years and lineup changes...

Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: November/2021

Artifacts trio: …and then there’s this

Tomeka Reid | Mike Reed | Nicole Mitchell

The Artifacts Trio’s 2015 debut Artifacts was a vibrant celebration of key figures in the Association For The Advancement Of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2021