Aki Takase: Auge

Christian Weber | Michael Griener | Aki Takase

Now 73 years old, the Berlin-based Japanese pianist Aki Takase, has lost none of her restlessly creative zeal and unique...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2021

Michael Gregory Jackson: Frequency Equilibrium Koan

Pheeroan aKLaff | Abdul Wadud | Julius Hemphill | Michael Gregory Jackson

This download-only release of an early New York ‘Loft Jazz' jam session led by avant garde guitarist Michael Gregry Jackson...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2021

Various Artists: J Jazz Master Series Volume 3

Tatsuya Nakamura | Kohsuke Mine | Hiroshi Murakami | Koichi Matsukaze | Featuring Aki Takase Trio | Yasuhiro Kohno

The third instalment of BBE's fascinating trawl through the more obscure waters of Japanese jazz does not disappoint. As was...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2021

Albare: Plays Jobim Vol. 2

Most of the Antônio Carlos Jobim bossa classics have been done to death and while it's normally good to hear...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2021

Jimmie Noone: The Apex of Jazz Clarinet 1923-1944

Jimmie Noone

Retrospective specialises in expertly curated compilations – much like ASV used to – focussing on key stylists from the traditional...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2021

Various Artists: Actions For Free Jazz

Diskaholics Anonymous Trio | Original Silence | Kieran Hebden | Jim O'Rourke | Otomo Yoshihide | Joe McPhee | Thurston Moore | Offonoff | Yoshimi | Two Bands and a Legend

The phrase ‘Actions For Free Jazz' – pinched from Don Cherry and Krystzof Penderecki's ‘Actions for Free Jazz Orchestra' –...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2021

Out of Necessity…: Paul Taylor: Via

Paul Taylor

The fourth edition of the Newcastle Festival of Jazz and Improvised Music was set to run in October 2020 until...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: April/2021

Ali Akbar Khan: That Which Colors The Mind

Ali Akbar Khan | Indranil Bhattacharya | Zakir Hussain

One of the turning points in the 20th century musical arts occurred when the sarod virtuoso Ali Akbar Khan and...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: April/2021

R+R=Now: Live

Robert Glasper

After the 2018 studio set Collagically Speaking comes a live album drawn from a month-long residency by Robert Glasper, biggest...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2021

Timo Lassy & Teppo Mäkynen: Live Recordings, 2019-2020

Teppo Mäkynen | Timo Lassy

Their first CD was a series of minimalistic encounters which may have sat well in a world of diminishing attention...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2021