Issie Barratt's Interchange: Donna's Secret

Helena Kay | Zoe Rahman | Laura Jurd | Alyson Cawley | Rosie Turton | Nikki Iles | Katie Patterson | Shirley Smart | Issie Barratt | Charlie Pyne

Both ad hoc band and composers’ showcase, communal resource and musical achievement, Interchange typifies Issie Barratt’s work as educator, activist...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2020

Nick Walters: Active Imagination

Nim Sadot | Rebecca Nash | Joseph Deenmamode | Nick Walters | Max Hallett | Ed ‘Tenderlonious’ Cawthorne | Jeff Guntren

London-based trumpeter Nick Walters is an excellent player with a distinctive sound. I particularly like the way he varies his...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: March/2020

Cherise: Paradise

Jonathan Silk | Louis Van Der Westhuizen | Joe Bristow | Sheila Maurice-Grey | Chelsea Carmichael | Andy Bunting | Cherise Adams-Burnett | Ernesto Marichales | Tal Janes

Vocalist, instrumentalist and composer Cherise Adams-Burnett was everywhere you looked in 2019. While she’s a featured vocalist with London-based collective...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: March/2020

Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton: Concert In Vilnius

Barry Guy | Evan Parker | Paul Lytton

Recorded live at the 2017 Vilnius Jazz Festival in Lithuania, this sonic postcard from the reliably inventive trio of Evan...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: March/2020

Red Kite: Theory of Colours

Jasper Høiby | Tim Giles | Esben Tjalve | Ross Hughes | Fulvio Sigurta | Hannes Riepler

Red Kite play a kind of wide-ranging, atomised fusion, meshing styles from noir score to reggae while instruments orbit in...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2020

Simon Thacker's Ritmata: Taradh

The debut from the acoustic guitarist-composer’s Scottish-based world-jazz quartet invokes a passionately percussive melting pot of influences from Native American,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2020

Landline

Chet Doxas | Zack Lober | Vinnie Sperazza | Jacob Sacks

One of several highlights on this well-crafted and enjoyable set is ‘Modern Jazz’. Its meaning is pleasingly open to interpretation....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2020

Yelena Eckemoff: Nocturnal Animals

Jon Christensen | Arild Andersen | Yelena Eckemoff | Thomas Strønen

Russian-born Eckemoff has appeared in these pages before, but her output seems to far outstrip our coverage. Fifteen albums in...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: March/2020

Yuri Goloubev: Two Chevrons Apart

John Turville | Asaf Sirkis | Yuri Goloubev | Tim Garland

Yuri Goloubev, the Moscow-born classical bassist who became a sought-after jazz player following his move to Italy in 2004, has...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: March/2020

Juan Vinuesa Jazz Quartet: Blue Shots from Chicago

Juan F.G. Vinuesa | Jason Roebke | Josh Berman | Mikel Patrick Avery

The blues promised by the album title emerge on the opening lines of ‘Red Line Ballad’, the album’s second track....

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: March/2020