Adam Nussbaum: The Lead Belly Project

Steven Cardenas | Adam Nussbaum | Ohad Talmore | Nate Radley

Those that rage against the appropriation of black music by white musicians may look askance at Nussbaum's re-visioning of Huddie...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2018

Kali: Riot

The piano-guitar-drums set-up Kali's new CD (featuring Nicolas Stocker from Nik Bärtsch's Mobile) sits somewhere between a hushed minimalism and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

Mickey Hart: RAMU

Jason Hann | Steve Kimock | Sekaa Jegog Yuskumara | Charles Lloyd | Tarriona ‘Tank’ Ball | Avey Tare | Jerry Garcia | Sikiru Adepoju | Zakir Hussain | Babatunde Olatunji

RAMU stands for ‘Random Access Musical Universe’, Mickey Hart's personal database and, as if it were ever in doubt, what...

Reviewed by Ken Hunt in issue: June/2018

Michael Gregory Jackson: Spirit Signal Strata

Guitarist Michael Gregory Jackson has veered between the free jazz scene in the 1970s (here he includes tributes to Ornette...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

The Matthew Read Trio: Anecdotes Vol. 2

Winner of the Dankworth Prize for big-band composition and arranging in 2016, the young Winchesterborn Matthew Read's attractive round-toned bass...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

Hely: Borderland

Are we in a new age of new age music? It unfortunately seems so, with Ronin's Nik Bärtsch-produced Hely, a...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

Jeff Williams: Lifelike

Sam Lasserson | Josh Arcoleo | Gonçalo Marquez | Jeff Williams | Kit Downes | John O'Gallagher

Over the past eight years of busy transatlantic gigging, and recordings for Michael Janisch's Whirlwind Recordings label, the Brooklyn and...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: June/2018

Other Animal

A quartet CD, led by the Berlin-basedMeyer Brothers on guitar and bass, takes the mournful, prog-inspired approach of their Melt...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

David Ake: Humanities

David Ake | Mark Ferber | Ralph Alessi | Ben Monder | Drew Gress

Ooh, I'm really feeling that guitar solo from Ben Monder on ‘Groundwork’! The rest of the group make themselves busy...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: June/2018

Aruan Ortiz Trio: Live In Zurich

Brad Jones | Chad Taylor | Aruan Ortiz

About three years ago, this writer was asked by Cuban pianist Ortiz to do the liner notes for an album...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2018