Reviews
Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Magical Incantation
Over a decade into their collaboration, tenor saxophonist Ivo Perelman and pianist Matthew Shipp have achieved the important goal of...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2024
A fab foursome: Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans: Know What I Mean?
Paul Chambers Pierre Michelot | John Coltrane | Jimmy Cobb | Kenny Burrell | Tommy Flanagan
Craft Recordings’ peerless Original Jazz Classics reissue campaign continues apace with these four exceptional all-analogue vinyl re-releases. Three were cut...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: August/2024
Krononaut: Krononaut II
As a jazz drummer Martin France needs no introduction – he has been at the top of the UK jazz...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: August/2024
Fania All Stars: Latin–Soul–Rock
The audience for this event, held at the Yankee Stadium in New York, topped 40,000, and photographs in the liner...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2024
Champian Fulton Trio: Flying High: Big Band Canaries Who Soared
Bookended by deeply swinging instrumental takes on two much beloved 1930s standards, ‘On the Sunny Side of the Street’ and...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2024
Three Way: Harken!
John Etheridge | Steve Lodder | Ben Crosland | Steve Waterman
Sometimes straight ahead is how it has to be. From the clarion call of Waterman’s horn on ‘Welshcake’, you know...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2024
Elaine Delmar: Speak Low
Barry Green | Simon Thorpe | Jim Mullen | Elaine Delmar | Andy Panayi
A beautiful collection of songs selected from Elaine Delmar’s 50-plus-year career, Speak Low begins with a wondrously atmospheric version of...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: August/2024
Ant Law & Brigitte Beraha: Ensconced
Law’s musical palette grows ever wider: Ensconced finds him principally playing steel string acoustic, most rare for him, and collaborating...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: August/2024
Album Interview: Nduduzo Makhathini: uNomkhubulwane
Nduduzo Makhathini | Zwelakhe-Duma Bell le Pere | Francisco Mela
Despite the contemporary praise for its ‘African authenticity’, on Makhathini’s 2020 Blue Note debut, Modes of Communication: Letters From the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: August/2024
Gary Brunton: Gwawr
Emil Spányi | Andrea Michelutti | Paul Lay | Gary Brunton | François Jeanneau
Gary Brunton’s last album, Trên Dydd, took listeners on a musical train journey of sorts – the title is Welsh...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2024
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