Jeff Ellwood: Sounds Around the House

Although he's performed live for a few star names over the years, California-based tenor saxophonist is yet to make his...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021

Roots

Barney Rachabane | Dennis Mpale | Peter Morake | Jabu Nikosi | Sipho Gumede | Duke Makasi

Led by saxophonist Barney Rachabane, Roots formed in South Africa in 1975 and recorded just two albums before disbanding. This...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2021

Tricotism: Nostalgia

Nigel Price | Craig Milverton | Sandy Suchodolski

These three have done this sort of thing before, inspired by the great Peterson, Pass, Ray Brown trio, and here...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2021

J Frisco: Cut Throat

Lara Jones | Megan Roe | Jemma Freese

Cut Throat invites an expansive view of music; it follows the line of jazz as a raw roar of expression,...

Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: March/2021

Alexander Hawkins: Togetherness Music For Sixteen Musicians ft. Evan Parker + Riot Ensemble

Alexander Hawkins

So industrious and productive (his discography is prodigious) is British pianist Alexander Hawkins that it's remarkable to note that he's...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2021

Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo: El Arte Del Bolero

Luis Perdomo | Miguel Zenón

Cuban bolero's stately tempos, love-song lyrics and heartfelt passions are unlikely source material for an intimate duet for piano and...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2021

Jørgen Emborg: Swan Songs

Hans Ulrik | Lars Jansson | Johan Dynnesen | Mathias Heise | Sinne Egg | Thomas Fonnesbaek | Morten Lund

The veteran Danish pianist-composer Jørgen Emborg is sadly unable to play anymore after his struggle with Parkinson's disease took a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021

Shai Maestro: Human Racing: Human

Philip Dizack | Ofri Nehemya | Shai Maestro | Jorge Roeder

Witnessing a performance by Israeli composer/bassist Avishai Cohen at London's Union Chapel in 2011 left abiding memories – not just...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2021

Amanda Tosoff: Earth Voices

An ambitious Toronto-based pianist sets poetry as far apart as Poe, Whitman, the 13th Century Persian poet Rumi and Pablo...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021

Theo Bleckman and The Westerlies: This Land

Theo Bleckman | The Westerlies brass quartet

Bleckman is a shape-shifting artist whose work has embraced everything from radical art installations to Star Trek. A protégé of...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2021