Perlin Noise: John eats Bacon with Francis in the Cage

Featuring Led Bib’s Mark Holub on drums, an avant chamber 5-piece musically recreates the complexity of nature through bassist Alessandro...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020

Moses Boyd: Dark Matter

Nubya Garcia | Arnaud Gichaud | Klein | Poppy Ajudha | Nathaniel Cross | Theon Cross | Moses Boyd | Joe Armon Jones | Artie Zaitz | Phillip Harper

Moses Boyd has a knack for melding genres and for presenting his work in a way that makes it not...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: April/2020

Fay Victor: Barn Songs

Like a more experimental Nina Simone, the unique NYC vocalist Fay Victor fronts an organic-sounding cello-sax trio and manages to...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020

Lakecia Benjamin: Pursuance: The Coltranes

Malcolm Parson | Meshell Ndegecello | Lakecia Benjamin | Sharp Radway | Marcus Gilmore | Keyon Harrold | Greg Osby | David Bryant | Dee Dee Bridgewater | Jazzmeia Horn

New York City altoist Lakecia Benjamin has assembled an intergenerational all-star cast for this tribute to Alice and John Coltrane,...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: April/2020

Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Live In Nuremberg

Matthew Shipp | Ivo Perelman

Brazilian saxophonist Perelman’s recent appearance at London’s Hundred Years Gallery saw him take the bold step of working with strings...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2020

Joachim K໨n/Mateusz Smoczyñski: Speaking Sound

Mateusz Smoczyñski | Joachim K໨n

It would be interesting to know if the work of Australian composer Dale Cornelius has crossed the horizons of either...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2020

Manteca: Augmented Indifference

Formed in Toronto in 1979, this percussive world-jazz octet’s thirteenth recording boasts four originals inspired by Weather Report and Beach...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2020

Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey: Invisible Ritual

Tyshawn Sorey | Jennifer Curtis

Such is his unflaggingly prolific output, that it has been hard to keep up with Sorey in the last decade....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2020

Charlie Parker: The Immortal Charlie Parker

Curley Russell | Tommy Potter | Tiny Grimes | Max Roach | Bud Powell | Nelson Boyd | Miles Davis | Charlie Parker | Argonne Thornton | Jimmy Butts

No doubt we can expect a few Parker compilations in his centenary year, but this is a strange one. The...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: April/2020

Manny Albam: Classic Recordings 1957

Stu Williamson | Tom Mitchell | Al Cohn | Urbie Green | Hank Jones | Red Mitchell | Burt Collins | Shelly Manne | Charlie Mariano | Gerry Mulligan

There are several Manny Albam compilations on the market, all with slightly different permutations of the albums he made as...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2020