Reviews
Melissa Aldana: Echoes of the Inner Prophet
Pablo Menares | Kush Abadey | Melissa Aldana | Lage Lund | Fabian Almazan
The Manhattan-based Chile-born tenor saxophonist-composer Melissa Aldana’s star has been in the ascendant for about a decade now. In 2013...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2024
The Clark Tracey Quintet featuring Emily Masser: Introducing Emily Masser
Clark Tracey | Graham Harvey | James Owston | Emily Masser | Alex Clarke
Tracey needs no introduction here: among his many strengths is his eye for new talent. This time it’s the vocals...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2024
Roberta Flack: Lost Takes
Bernard Sweetney | Roberta Flack | Marshall Hawkins
Best known these days as a soul chanteuse, a peerless purveyor of ballads such as ‘First Time Ever I Saw...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: April/2024
Lonnie Smith: Afrodesia
Hammond organ legend Lonnie Smith made a string of essential albums between the late 1960s and mid 70s, and Afrodesia...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2024
Mark Solborg: BABEL
Simon Toldam | Mark Solborg | Francesco Bigoni | Susana Santos Silva | Anders Banke | Peter Bruun
Danish/Argentinian guitarist and composer, Mark Solborg, here assembles a deep-thinking ensemble of crack improvisers to help populate a high-concept project...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2024
Charles Lloyd: The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
Jason Moran | Brian Blade | Charles Lloyd | Larry Grenedier
After the artistic success of A Trio of Trios in 2023, a trilogy of three quite different trios – the...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2024
QOW Trio: The Hold Up
Spike Wells | Eddie Myer | Riley Stone-Lonergan
Spike Wells came to jazz on the 1960s bandstand with Bobby Wellins and Tubby Hayes, Eddie Myer out of autodidactic...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2024
Alex Bonney/Paul Dunmall/Mark Sanders: The Beholder’s Stare
Mark Sanders | Paul Dunmall | Alex Bonney
One of Sun Ra’s great contributions to improvised music was the notion of using the synthesiser not as a melodic...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2024
Amanda Gardier: Auteur: Music Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson
Dave King | Amanda Gardier | Charlie Ballantine | Jesse Wittman
Amanda Gardier, a young Baltimore-based alto saxophonist, won’t be a name familiar to most UK jazz listeners.But she steps out...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2024
John Donegan – The Irish Sextet: Light Streams
Linley Hamilton | Richie Buckley | Dan Bodwell | Michael Buckley | John Donegan | John Daly
We reviewed the Irish pianist-composer John Donegan’s earlier release Shadows Linger in Jazzwise 286 and gave it a well-earned four...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: March/2024
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