Little North: Finding Seagulls

This young Danish trio have some of the contemplative and minimalistic aspects of Nordic-toned jazz but without the sombre attitude;...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021

Branford Marsalis/Various: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom – Music from the Netflix Film

Branford Marsalis | Cedric Watson | Maxayn Lewis | Clint Johnson | Viola Davis

This is the official soundtrack to George C. Wolfe's excellent recent Netflix film based on the play of the same...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021

Vasko Atanasovski Adrabesca Quartet: Phoenix

The Slovenian saxophonist Vasko Atanasovski leads a quartet that includes the inimitable tubist Michel Godard, and delivers an intoxicating old-world...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021

Allan Harris: Kate's Soulfood

David Castañeda | Arcoiris Sandoval | Allan Harris | Nimrod Speaks | Shirazette Tinnin

Brooklyn-born, Harlem-based vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Allan Harris returns with a stirring, singularly personal paean to Harlem and in particular...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2021

Album Interview: Gary Bartz: JID 006

Elgin Clark | Adrian Younge | Greg Paul | Ali Shaheed Muhammed | Anita Castleberry | Saudia Yasmein | Gary Bartz | Loren Oden

Much excitement surrounds JID 006, another new studio album (following on from last year's acclaimed Night Dreamer Direct-to-Disc Sessions with...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2021

Fire!: Defeat

Andreas Werliin | Mats Aleklint | Mats Gustafsson | Johan Berthling | Goran Kajfes

With The Thing on extended hiatus, Fire! has emerged as Swedish hornsman Mats Gustafsson's key power trio – and an...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2021

Kendon/Ryall Sextet: There Will Be Time

Pete Adam Hill | Al Scott | Jack Kendon | Nigel Thomas | Imogen Ryall | Julian Nicholas

Recorded at the Retreat Studio, Ovingdean, mixed by Mark Edwards (who also contributes synth and tubular bells to a brace...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2021

Elephant9: Arrival of the New Elders

Torstein Lofthus | Nikolai Hængsle | Ståle Storløkken

Welcome to an acid-free altered state. The fiery onslaught of 2019's twin double-live albums, Psychedelic Backfire I and II, has...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2021

Santi Debriano: Flash of the Spirit

Santi Debriano

With a mind-blowing CV, especially as sideman, the Panamanian Brooklyn-raised bassist Santi Debriano should really be better known. Among the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021

Australian Art Orchestra: Sometimes Home Can Grow Stranger Than Space

Lizzie Welsh | Aviva Endean | Jaques Emery | Peter Knight | Georgie Darvidis | James Macaulay | Tilman Robinson | Andrea Keller | Simon Barker

Founded and directed by pianist Paul Grabowsky, a pillar of the Aussie jazz scene, the AAO existed ‘on the smell...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2021