Susanna Aleksandra: The Siren

Susanna Aleksandra | Joonas Haavisto | Ville Pynssi | Joonas Tuuri | Abdissa ‘Mamba’ Assefa

Here's something to warm the heart in these dark, sad times. A new CD from an Estonian singer I'd never...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: March/2021

The Drive: Can You Feel It?

Bheki Mseleku | Nelson Mgwaza | Danny Sithole | Stanley Sithole | Anthony Sauli | Bunny Luthuli | Henry Sithole

We Are Busy Bodies follow last year's excellent Armitage Road by Heshoo Beshoo with another essential release from the mid...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2021

Fahir Atakoğlu: For Love

Fahir Atakoğlu | Fatih Ahiskali | Ugur Varol | Mustafa Boztuy | Cagatay Cetin | Bob Franceschini | Fahir Atakoglu | Aimée Allen | Luciana Souza | Alain Caron

Fahir Atakoğlu is well-known as a prolific film and TV composer in his homeland. Furthermore, he has made close to...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021

François Lana Trio: Cathédrale

Lana, a 30-something French pianist who inhabits a space somewhere between Monk and Andrew Hill, makes an impressive debut where...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2021

Rempis/Parker/Flaten/Cunningham: Stringers And Struts

Dave Rempis | Hamid Drake | Jeremy Cunningham | Jeff Parker | Ingebrigt Håker Flaten

Jeff Parker is probably still best known for contributing guitar to the intricate, genre-hopping compositions of Chicagoan post-rock group Tortoise...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2021

Mister Barrington: Regenerate

Oli Rockberger | Owen Biddle | Zach Danziger

Mister Barrington have been a cult muso favourite for the last decade – boasting a line up of seasoned pros...

Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: February/2021

Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry: Garden of Expression

Carmen Castaidi | Joe Lovano | Marilyn Crispell

This is Joe Lovano's second album as a leader for ECM after leaving Blue Note records in 2014, having recorded...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2021

Tom Smith's Gecko: Gecko

Tom Smith | Will Barry | Jonny Mansfield

On their debut album Gecko, the saxophonist-composer Tom Smith and his trio sound like old hands at the kind of...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2021

William Parker: Migration Of Silence Into And Out Of The Tone World

William Parker | Ellen Christi | Jalalu-Kalvert Nelson | the Universal Tonality String quartet | Lisa Sokolov | Jean-Carla Rodeo | Fay Victor | Hamid Drake | Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez | Eri Yamamoto

As William Parker told Jazzwise in 2020, he had in the years prior to the Covid-19 pandemic been through a...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2021

LRK Trio: Memory Moment

An individualistic young Russian-based contemporary power piano trio spearheaded by pianist Evgeny Lebedev, draws from native folk and classical traditions,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2021