Reviews

Review of Ant Law: The Sleeper Wakes

Ant Law: The Sleeper Wakes

Ant Law

Edition

Rating: ★★★

Ant Law's fourth album as leader is unhurried and unmoved by fashion. Among his usual, strong quintet, Ivo Neame adds...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2020

Review of Kamaal Williams: Wu Hen

Kamaal Williams: Wu Hen

Kamaal Williams

Black Focus

Rating: ★★★★

The fuzzy boundaries of jazz are perpetually expanding; on his sophomore album, Wu Hen, Kamaal Williams roams and tests their...

Reviewed by Christine Hannigan in issue: September/2020

Review of Mino Cinelu/Nils Petter Molvær: SulaMadiana

Mino Cinelu/Nils Petter Molvær: SulaMadiana

Min Cinelu

Modern Recordings/BMG

Rating: ★★★

Nils Petter Molvær must surely be one of Norway's most successful exports – every year he mounts two and sometimes...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2020

Review of Charles Lloyd Quartet: The Flowering

Charles Lloyd Quartet: The Flowering

Cecil McBee | Keith Jarrett | Charles Lloyd | Jack DeJohnette | Jack Dejohnette

Rating: ★★★★

Years before Miles Davis started wooing the rock and hippie crowds at the Fillmore and the Isle of Wight, there...

Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014

Review of TRYPL

TRYPL

Trevor Mires

Ubuntu Music

Rating: ★★★

Saxophonist Paul Booth is one of the co-leaders of TRYPL, the other two being trumpeter Ryan Quigley and trombonist Trevor...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2020

Review of Erroll Garner: Magician

Erroll Garner: Magician

Erroll Garner

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★

Preceding Plays Gershwin and Kern, the concluding record in this reissue series of Garner's Octave recordings (reviewed in the July...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2020

Review of Deerhoof & Wadada Leo Smith: To Be Surrounded By Beautiful, Curious, Breathing, Laughing Flesh Is Enough

Deerhoof & Wadada Leo Smith: To Be Surrounded By Beautiful, Curious, Breathing, Laughing Flesh Is Enough

Satomi Matsuzaki

Joyful Noise Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Deerhoof's quarter-century career has carved an avant-garde indie-rock corner of their own, at once sweet and abrasive, corralling punk impulses...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: September/2020

Review of Lara Jones: Ensō

Lara Jones: Ensō

Lara Jones

self-released

Rating: ★★★

This solo release has been constructed wholly on saxophonist Lara Jones' experience of travel within a period of her life...

Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: September/2020

Review of Ran Blake/Christine Correa: When Soft Rains Fall

Ran Blake/Christine Correa: When Soft Rains Fall

Ran Blake

Red Piano Records

Rating: ★★★

The latest in a lengthy series of recordings for this label featuring the duo of Blake and Correa, with her...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: September/2020

Review of John Beasley MONK’estra: MONK’estra Plays John Beasley

John Beasley MONK’estra: MONK’estra Plays John Beasley

John Beasley

Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★

John Beasley has an impressive CV – work with Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Al Jarreau, Steely Dan and...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2020

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