Chris Barber: A Trailblazer's Legacy

Chris Barber

When Chris Barber died in March this year, no one obituarist, myself included, quite conveyed the full range and extent...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2021

Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet

Wadada Leo Smith

Turning 80 seems to be rejuvenating the already youthful Wadada Leo Smith. These two very different releases by the trumpeter...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2021

Jason Sharp: CST154

A lengthy solo performance by a Montreal-based saxophonist-composer working in the avant garde, specifically drone and durational music, is heavy...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2021

Skuli Sverrisson/Bill Frisell: Strata

Bill Frisell

A re-formatting of a vinyl-only release from 2017, programmed to fit with the A/B side nature of an LP; so...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: July/2021

Creative Arts Ensemble: One Step Out

Kaeef Ruzadun

South London reissue specialist Pure Pleasure now seems to be repeating the superb job it’s been doing over the past...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2021

Guido Spannocchi: Perihelion

Guido Spannocchi

Austrian-born, London-based saxophonist Spannocchi's considerable personal charm is abundantly evident on this set of recordings of his original compositions that...

Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: July/2021

HUMANBEING

The Italian composer-keyboardist Rossano Baldini's HUMANBEING project is part Aphex Twin-inspired electronica, part chamber acoustic and is much closer to...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2021

Steve Cole: Smoke And Mirrors

Smooth Jazz, although now confined to the niche, is painfully, yet somehow reassuringly, still with us; one of those still...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2021

Ches Smith's We All Break: Path Of Seven Colors

Ches Smith

For many it is hard to see past the stigma attached to Haitian voodou. Depictions in western popular culture of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2021

Gary Bartz NTU Troop: Live in Bremen 1975

Gary Bennett

Gary Bartz began his career by jamming with Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan and Pharoah Sanders, moved up a step in...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2021