Reviews
Kendrick Scott: Corridors
Kendrick Scott | Reuben Rogers | Walter Smith III
The Texan drummer Kendrick Scott's major vehicle as leader-composer has been his Oracle band that he formed in 2006. Corridors,...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Joe Chambers: Dance Kobina
American drummer/composer Joe Chambers’ third Blue Note set investigates the connections between the music of West Africa and that of...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Various Artists: Transmissions From Total Refreshment Centre
Blue Note Records continues to play a savvy game with the UK market. After two editions of its Re:imagined series,...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Various Artists: Blue Note Re:imagined II
Don Was has maintained Blue Note's identity within the UMG monolith by broadening its range and deepening its roots, welcoming...
Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Robert Glasper: Black Radio (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
By the time he made Black Radio in 2012, Robert Glasper was one of the biggest new names in jazz,...
Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2022/2023
Bill Frisell Quartet: Four
Johnathan Blake | Bill Frisell | Gerald Clayton | Greg Tardy
With a lineup joining the Coltraneish postbop conceptions of experienced tenorist and clarinetist Greg Tardy, and the lyrical yet always...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
Charles Lloyd: Trios: Sacred Thread
Julian Lage | Charles Lloyd | Zakir Hussain
This is the third and final album in Blue Note's Charles Lloyd-dedicated ‘Trio of Trios’ series, with the orchestrally-resourceful guitarist...
Reviewed in issue November/2022
DOMi & JD Beck: NOT TIGHT
As Gen-Z jazzers go, DOMi & JD Beck are leaders of a new hyper-hip yet virtuosic pack. French keyboardist DOMi...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Various Artists: Here It Is: A tribute to Leonard Cohen
Artists have been covering the songs of Leonard Cohen since at least 1969, when Roberta Flack included ‘Hey, That's No...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Charles Lloyd: Trios: Ocean
Anthony Wilson | Gerald Clayton | Charles Lloyd
The joy of Lloyd’s Trios project is that each of the three bands is an on-the-road working band; they’ve not...
Reviewed in issue September/2022
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