Nicole Mitchell: Maroon Cloud

Tomeka Reid | Nicole Mitchell | Aruán Ortiz | Fay Victor

Flautist-composer Mitchell's substantial quantity of releases has been matched by quality, and this is no exception to the rule. Again...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2018

Dan Weiss: Starebaby

Ben Monder | Dan Weiss | Matt Mitchell | Trevor Dunn | Craig Taborn

There are two important dedications in this CD's booklet. One is to Ron Saint Germain, a ‘sacré monstre’ in the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2018

Ramon Lopez/Percy Pursglove/Rafa³ Mazur: Threefold

Percy Pursglove | Rafał Mazur | Ramon Lopez

By his own account, attending a Max Roach solo concert in 1980 changed Ramon Lopez's musical life – his later...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2018

Antonio Carlos Jobim: Tide/Stone Flower

Hermeto Pascoal | Urbie Green | Joao Palma | Hubert Laws | Airto Moreira | Antonio Carlos Jobim | Joe Farrell | Jerry Dodgion | Ron Carter | Eumir Deodato

What more can be said about Rio-born songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim, deemed ‘the greatest composer of the Americas’ by Sinatra,...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: September/2018

Denis Gäbel: The Good Spirits

Denis Gabel | Kevin Hays | Clarence Penn | Scott Colley

The German saxophonist's first album, 2007's Keep on Rollin', was a piano-free tribute to Sonny Rollins and his second, released...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: September/2018

Otomo Yoshihide/ Paal Nilssen-Love: 19th Of May 2016

Incendiary guitarist Otomo Yoshihide has been a frequent guest of powerhouse Norwegian drummer Nilssen-Love's jazz slash-fest combo The Thing on...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018

Dana Murray: Negro Manifesto

The percussionist and synth player's oddly jumbled dystopian collage of politically-charged sampled speeches, soundbites and rap has the fi ne...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2018

Nick Costley-White: Detour Ahead

Sam Rapley | Nick Costley-White | Dave Hamblett | Matt Robinson | Conor Chaplin

This debut from young guitarist Nick Costley-White, one of the founders of influential London night the Jazz Nursery, mixes knotty...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: September/2018

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: Sweet Sister Suite

Bill Fleming | Lorne Cowieson | Laura Jurd | Michael Owers | Liam Shortall | Sean Gibbs | Konrad Wiszniewski | Pete Johnstone | Chris Greive | Rob Luft

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra mastermind Tommy Smith commissioned this Kenny Wheeler suite of ruefully lyrical themes from the late great...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2018

Abbey Lincoln: Four Classic Albums

Finally, an Abbey Lincoln release that pulls together her best early work, including the celebrated Abbey is Blue and the...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020