Reviews
Otto Kintet: Wildernis
Lukas Somers | Daniel Jonkers | Jeroen Capens | Martin Salemi | Otto Kint
According to his press blurb, Belgian bassist Kint has moved between genres during his playing career, taking in influences from...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2025
Daniel Sommer/ Arve Henriksen/ Johannes Lundberg: Sounds & Sequences
Arve Henriksen | Daniel Sommer | Johannes Lundberg
“Today some may see Nordic jazz or improvisation in the light of a certain long-term conventional notion of beauty: nature,...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: February/2025
Various Artists: Classic V-Disc Small Group Jazz Sessions
The American V-Disc programme – V standing for Victory – was a morale boosting initiative by the Music Section of...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2025
Archie Shepp: Live at the Panafrican Festival
Held in July 1969 in the city of Algiers, the inaugural Panafrican Cultural Festival was a melting-pot event that was...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2025
Satoko Fujii Quartet: Dog Days Of Summer
Natsuki Tamura | Satoko Fujii | Tatsuya Yoshida | Hayakawa Takeharu
There is, it seems, no limit to the energy and fecundity of the great Japanese pianist Satoko Fujii. Now 66,...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2025
Brubeck Bothers Quartet/Paul English Quartet/Horace Alexander Young / Houston Chamber Choir/Robert Simpson: The Voice of
Alongside his scintillating work in a variety of small groups, Dave Brubeck wrote and performed on a far larger scale,...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2025
Emil Storløkken Åse’s PHØNIX: Intergalloptic Roundtrip
Norwegian guitarist Emil Storløkken Åse’s two previous recordings were abrasive dystopian sci-fi epics, the latest – May 2024’s Electric Cave...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: February/2025
Snorre Kirk: What A Day!
Joe Webb | Snorre Kirk | Alexander Honey Boulton | Giacomo Smith | Anders Fjeldsted
Danish drummer-composer Kirk has graced our pages a few times recently and the present quartet (minus Boulton who appears on...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: February/2025
King Crimson: Sheltering Skies: Live In Frejus, France August 27, 1982
Adrian Belew | Robert Fripp | Bill Bruford | Tony Levin
The trick here is that Belew and Levin are currently touring this music as Beat, with Steve Vai taking the...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2025
Paquito D’Rivera: Who’s Smoking?
As part of Candid’s welcome reissue of its fine sessions from the years after 1989 when Alan Bates took over...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2025
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