Reviews
Ben Crosland Quintet: Solway Stories
Dylan Howe | Ben Crosland | Chris Allard | Steve Lodder | Steve Waterman
All musicians should dedicate at least one album to their mum. This one is dedicated to Huddersfield bassist and bandleader...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2021
Mike Clark & Michael Zilber: Mike Drop
Mike Clark | Peter Barshay | Matt Clark | Michael Zilber
I wanted to like this album more than I do. Clark is a player named in the press blurb as...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2021
Keshav Batish: Binaries in Cycle 1
Aron Caceres | Keshav Batish | Shay Salhov | Lucas Hahn
Keshav Batish, drummer, tabla and sitar virtuoso, is equally versed in Hindustani music and jazz. Here, he blends the two...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: August/2021
Srdjan Ivanovic Blazin'Quartet: Sleeping Beauty
Srdjan Ivanovic | Magic Malik | Andreas Polyzogpoulos | Mihail Ivanov | Federico Casagrande
This is the fourth album by Paris-based, Bosnian-born drummer Srdjan Ivanovic's pan-European group Blazin' Quartet, and it is not without...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2021
Roan Kearsey-Lawson: Mostly Me
Here's the ultimate in one-man-enterprise, for Kearsey-Lawson not only played all four instruments for the album, but six of the...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2021
Zoe Gilby: Aurora
Zoe Gilby | Mark Williams | Russ Morgan | Andy Champion | Noel Dennis
Any fans of the US trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer and arranger, Tom Harrell, will be delighted to hear that, following hot...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2021
Stephan Micus: Winter's End
A student and collector of instruments from around the world, Stephan Micus has been well described as a ‘one-man universe...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2021
JD Allen: Queen City
JD Allen joins the likes of Sonny Rollins and David Murray as one of the very few musicians to attempt...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2021
The Nick Kerkhoff Quartet: Here and Now
Nick Kerkhoff | Emanuele Pellegrini | Jesse Schilderik | George Panaite
The pandemic's impact on musicians' development will have been incalculable, and surely it has been most keenly felt by those...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: August/2021
George Cables: Too Close for Comfort
George Cables | Victor Lewis | Essiet Essiet
The New York pianist George Cables' ability to make the jazz of giants sound even better has serviced repertoires and...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: August/2021
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