Large Unit Fendika: Ethiobraz

Mats Äleklint | Paal Nilssen-Love | Paulinho Bicolor | Klaus Ellerhusen Holm | Andreas Wildhagen | Melaku Belay | Ketil Gutvik | Habetamu Yeshambel | Fasika Hailu | Kristoffer Berre Alberts

Paal Nilssen Love’s ever-changing Large Unit has already touched on the drummer/composer’s affinity for Brazilian music on the 2016 album...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: May/2020

Wolfgang Muthspiel: Angular Blues

Wolfgang Muthspiel | Brian Blade | Scott Colley

In 2014, the lyrical, meticulously nuanced music of the Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel found its way to the ECM label...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2020

Tim Berne's Snakeoil: The Fantastic Mrs 10

Tim Berne | Ches Smith | Matt Mitchell | Marc Ducret | Oscar Noriega

For a band that features a good deal of New York composer/ saxophonist Tim Berne’s signature methods – knotty, muscular...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: May/2020

Ross McHenry: Nothing Remains Unchanged

Bassist Ross McHenry’s superb quartet line-up, featuring the likes of saxophonist Ben Wendel and drummer Eric Harland, delivers the goods...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Per Oddvar Johansen: The Quiet Cormorant

Torben Snekkestad | Per Oddvar Johansen | Hedvig Mollestad | Helge Lien

To say Per Oddvar Johansen is a drummer for all seasons is a bit of an understatement. Neither flashy nor...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2020

Matthew Tavares & Leland Whitty: Visions

Leland Whitty | Matthew Tavares | Julian Anderson-Bowes | Matthew Chalmers

This new release from Matthew Tavares and Leland Whitty, two members of the pioneering Canadian jazz-hip hop outfit Bad Bad...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: May/2020

Charles Mingus: Pithecanthropus Erectus

Mal Waldron | George Barrow | Eddie Bert | Charles Mingus | J.R. Monterose | Willie Jones | Jackie McLean

Being reissued on purple vinyl doesn’t feel exactly the appropriate apotheosis of Pithecanthropus, whose programmatic title-track elaborates on Mingus’ storyline...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2020

Kandace Springs: The Women Who Raised Me

Kandace Springs | Clarence Penn | Steve Cardenas | Scott Colley

Following her critically acclaimed 2016 debut, Soul Eyes, and 2018’s Karriem Riggins-produced Indigo, the singer that Prince said possesses ‘a...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: May/2020

Muneer Nasser: A Soldier's Story

This dedicated, heartfelt musical companion to the trumpeter’s biography of his father/bassist Jamil Nasser is also his debut, and it’s...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020

Nat King Cole: The Complete Nelson Riddle Studio Sessions

Archie Freeman | Bill Miller | Joe Koch | Irving Ashby | Nelson Riddle | Conrad Gozzo | Jimmy Rowles | Barney Kessel | Joe Comfort | Si Zentner

Hard on the heels of the excellent Hittin’ The Ramp 1936-43 set on Resonance comes this exemplary package collating all...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2020