Album Interview: Led Bib: It's Morning

Sharron Fortnam | Liran Donin | Jack Hues | Chris Williams | Irene Kepl | Pete Grogan | Noid | Susanna Gartmeyer | Mark Holub | Elliot Galvin

Led Bib's sixth album, Umbrella Weather, rejuvenated a band set to quit rather than settle for half-measures. It's Morning sails...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2019

Magic Malik: Jazz Association

Olivier Laisney | Magic Malik | Damien Varaillon | Stefano Lucchini | Maxime Sanchez

Nearly two decades ago the Paris-based North African flautist Magic Malik was tipped as the next big star of world...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: November/2019

Kalle Kalima & Knut Reiersrud: Flying Like Eagles

Knut Reiersrud | Phil Donkin | Jim Black | Kalle Kalima

If you're looking for some authentic misty-mountain topped Nordic jazz from this Finnish-Norwegian guitar collaboration you've come to the wrong...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2019

Steve Lehman Trio + Craig Taborn: The People I Love

Matt Brewer | Damion Reid | Steve Lehman | Craig Taborn

Over the past decade Lehman has proved himself a thrilling forward thinker, recording several albums that vividly capture Internet Age...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2019

Kris Davis: Diatom Ribbons

Val Jeanty | Ches Smith | Esperanza Spalding | Marc Ribot | Terri Lyne Carrington | Kris Davis | Tony Malaby | JD Allen | Trevor Dunn | Nels Cline

Pianist-composer Kris Davis can be found among a small coterie of contemporary New York underground scene experimentalists, including Ingrid Laubrock,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2019

Daniel Casimir & Tess Hirst: These Days

Tobie Carpenter | Daniel Casimir | Olly Sarkar | Tess Hirst | Robert Mitchell

Tess Hirst's words give barbed force to Daniel Casimir's open-hearted music, which is grounded in hard bop while exploring a...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2019

Bill Evans: The East End

Wolfgang Haffner | Bill Evans | Etienne Mbappe | WDR Big Band Cologne

I blame Miles: just as Mike Stern still sports his curtains hair cut from his days with the Magus, so,...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2019

John Pearce: Just Friends

The young Bristol-based violinist is in the Stephane Grappelli mould whose quartet, including veteran pianist David Newton, comes from an...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2019

Wachsmann/Taylor/Mattos/Brighton: Strings

Philipp Wachsmann | Marcio Mattos | Ian Brighton | Trevor Taylor

Guitarist Ian Brighton ended a nearly 40-year hiatus from music making in 2016 with a comeback performance at a fundraiser...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2019

Trapper Keaper: Meets Tim Berne & Aurora

This drums and keys duo mix free-wheeling live acoustics and spacey electronic adornments to penetrating effect, with avant-saxophonist Tim Berne...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2019