Reviews
Johnny Griffin Quartet: Live In Valencia ‘92
Johnny Griffin | Reggie Johnson | Hervé Sellin | Doug Sides
In a striking parallel with Don Byas a decade and a half earlier, Griffin left the USA in his mid-thirties...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2024
Wayne Shorter: Celebration Vol. 1
Brian Blade | John Patitucci | Danilo Pérez | Wayne Shorter
It’s something of a cliché that jazz is ‘different every time’, but in the case of this quartet, it was...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2024
Vijay Iyer/Boston Modern Orchestra Project: Trouble: Asunder/Crisis Modes
BMOP | Jennifer Koh | Vijay Iyer | Gil Rhodes
Although known first and foremost as a significant modern-day jazz pianist, Vijay Iyer is a composer of note who has...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2024
Angelica Sanchez/Chad Taylor: A Monster Is Just An Animal You Haven’t Met Yet
Chad Taylor | Angelica Sanchez
Blimey. Talk about expressing yourself without giving a shit about what anyone thinks! This free-spirited, uninhibited and at times positively...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2024
Sam Braysher: That’s Him: The Music of Kurt Weill
Sara Dowling | Dario Di Lecce | Sam Braysher | Steve Brown | Matyas Gayer
This third album from London-based alto saxist Sam Braysher pays tribute to Kurt Weill by deftly navigating the composer’s lesser-known...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2024
Nasheet Waits: New York Love Letter (Bitter Sweet)
Steve Nelson | Nasheet Waits | Rashaan Carter | Mark Turner
The 53 year-old New York drummer Nasheet Waits (raised by a famous percussionist father, Freddie Waits, and mentored by Max...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2024
Charlotte Glasson: Cosmo’s Cosmos
Charlotte Glasson | Chris Spedding | Chris Kibble | Mark Bassey | Sam Glasson | Lloyd Coote
There’s an irredeemably joyous element to all of Glasson’s releases, but there is a very special reason why the eighth...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2024
Die Like A Dog: Fragments of Music, Life and Death of Albert Ayler
Hamid Drake | William Parker | Toshinori Kondo | Peter Brötzmann
From his earliest days, the late Peter Brötzmann’s tenor tone was routinely compared to that of Albert Ayler, and there...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2024
Kevin Figes: You Are Here
Pete Judge | Riaan Vosloo | Kevin Figes | Jim Blomfield | Tony Orrell | Raphael Clarkson
You Are Here as a band were assembled by Figes specifically to celebrate the music of Bristolian Keith Tippett and...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2024
Album Interview: Eliane Elias: Time And Again
If Eliane Elias’ remarkable 2021 album of duets with Chucho Valdés and Chick Corea, Mirror Mirror, focused on her dazzling...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2024
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