Reviews
Nina Simone: Blackbird: The Colpix Recordings 1959–1963
Colpix Records, founded in 1958, was a subsidiary of film company Columbia Pictures-Screen Gems. Most of its output consisted of...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2024
Adam Rudolph & Tyshawn Sorey: Archaisms I & II
Sae Hashimoto | Adam Rudolph | Tyshawn Sorey | Russell Greenberg | Levy Lorenzo
The meeting of two rhythm masters of different generations produces expectedly interesting results. Active since the 1970s percussionist Adam Rudolph...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2024
John Abercrombie/Dave Holland/Jack DeJohnette: Gateway
Jack DeJohnette | Dave Holland | John Abercrombie
Abercrombie had debuted as a leader in his own right on the ECM label in 1974 with a trio comprising...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2024
Julius Rodriguez: Evergreen
Drummer, pianist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer and (since he’s still only 25) wunderkind Julius Rodriguez has spent several years as a...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: July/2024
Orlando le Fleming: Wandering Talk
British bassist-composer le Fleming and his Romantic Funk Band’s 2020 release The Unfamiliar was an unexpectedly fresh and pulsating work,...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2024
Chick Corea/Béla Fleck: Remembrance
By the time a teenage banjoist called Béla Fleck had become entranced by Chick Corea’s music in the 1970s, the...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2024
Diane McLoughlin & The Casimir Connection: Reflection
Tim Fairhall | Diane McLoughlin | Alcyona Mick | Kit Massey
“In physics, the Casimir Effect is an electromagnetic energy drawing elements together,” explains Diane McLoughlin, leader of The Casimir Connection....
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2024
Duke Ellington: Copenhagen 1958 (Bonus: After Hours 1950)
This is by no means the first collection released posthumously from Ellington’s 1958 European tour, and the opening two-thirds of...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2024
Jo Harrop: The Path of a Tear
Jo Harrop | Anthony Wilson | Victor Indrizzo | Larry Klein | David Piltch | Jim Cox
Iggy Pop has declared that Jo Harrop is a fine jazz singer, and she won Jazz Album of the Year...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2024
Harold Land: Choma (Burn)
By the time this came to be made, Harold Land’s rapid rise to national attention with Clifford Brown and Max...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2024
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