Reviews
Johnathan Blake: Passage
Johnathan Blake | Immanuel Wilkins | Dezron Douglas | David Virelles | Joel Ross
Running through this varied and absorbing record are Johnathan Blake's reflections on and tributes to his late father, the violinist...
Reviewed in issue September/2023
Artemis: In Real Time
Renee Rosnes | Noriko Ueda | Allison Miller | Ingrid Jensen | Alexa Tarantino | Nicole Grover
This, the second album from Artemis following 2020’s eponymous debut, produces a far better realisation of the band – out...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Walter Smith III: Return to Casual
Walter Smith III expresses his deep modern jazz roots with an airy tenor sax tone and a ferocious but understated...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Julian Lage: The Layers
Bill Frisell | Dave King | Jorge Roeder | Julian Lage
Julian Lage has not only been prolific but gone up a few gears creatively with this being his third recording...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
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
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