Reviews

Review of Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Magical Incantation

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Magical Incantation

Ivo Perelman | Matthew Shipp

Soul City Sound

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of A fab foursome: Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans: Know What I Mean?

A fab foursome: Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans: Know What I Mean?

Paul Chambers Pierre Michelot | John Coltrane | Jimmy Cobb | Kenny Burrell | Tommy Flanagan

Editor's Choice

New Jazz/OJC/Craft Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Krononaut: Krononaut II

Krononaut: Krononaut II

Martin France | Leo Abrahams

Palomino

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Fania All Stars: Latin–Soul–Rock

Fania All Stars: Latin–Soul–Rock

Willie Colon | Billy Cobham | Jan Hammer | Lou Soloff | Ray Barretto | Mongo Santamaria | Victor Paz | Jorge ‘Malo’ Santana | Manu Dibango

Fania/Craft Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Champian Fulton Trio: Flying High: Big Band Canaries Who Soared

Champian Fulton Trio: Flying High: Big Band Canaries Who Soared

Champian Fulton | Vanessa Perea | Jane Monheit | Olivia Chindamo | Carmen Bradford | Charles Ruggiero | Mike Gurrola | Gretje Angell | Fukushi Tainaka | Neal Miner

Jazz at the Ballroom

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Three Way: Harken!

Three Way: Harken!

John Etheridge | Steve Lodder | Ben Crosland | Steve Waterman

Jazz Cat

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Elaine Delmar: Speak Low

Elaine Delmar: Speak Low

Barry Green | Simon Thorpe | Jim Mullen | Elaine Delmar | Andy Panayi

Editor's Choice

Ubuntu Music

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Ant Law & Brigitte Beraha: Ensconced

Ant Law & Brigitte Beraha: Ensconced

Ant Law | Ivo Neame | Kit Downes | Jamie Murray | Adam Kovacs | Petros Klampanis | Brigitte Beraha | Ernesto Simpson | Max Luthert | Matt Calvert

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Album Interview: Nduduzo Makhathini: uNomkhubulwane

Album Interview: Nduduzo Makhathini: uNomkhubulwane

Nduduzo Makhathini | Zwelakhe-Duma Bell le Pere | Francisco Mela

Blue Note Records

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Gary Brunton: Gwawr

Gary Brunton: Gwawr

Emil Spányi | Andrea Michelutti | Paul Lay | Gary Brunton | François Jeanneau

Juste Une Trace

Rating: ★★★

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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