Reviews
Mina Agossi + AGE7: Lonely Whales
Fabien Miezianowski | Eric Jacot | Mina Agossi | Marc Charrière
“But is it jazz?” is a question that one is often tempted to ask, especially when listening to albums for...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2024
Cut The Sky: Esz Kodesz
Hubert Zemler | Wacław Zimpel | Alex Roth
With its origins in Alex Roth’s 2018 tenure as artist-in-residence at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Kraków, Esz Kodesz (Hebrew...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: February/2024
Aruan Ortiz: Pastor’s Paradox
“This sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom. And...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2024
Geri Allen & Kurt Rosenwinkel: A Lovesome Thing
Geri Allenn | Kurt Rosenwinkel
The passing of Geri Allen in 2017 robbed the jazz world of a hugely talented composer-improviser and source of inspiration...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2024
Johnny Hartman: Smooth & Swinging: The Singles & Albums Collection 1947-58
The velvet-toned baritone vocalist, Johnny Hartman, will forever be remembered for the ballads album he recorded with John Coltrane’s classic...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2024
John Pope Quintet: Citrinitas
Johnny Hunter | Graham Hardy | Jamie Stockbridge | Faye MacCalman | John Pope
Newcastle-native double bassist John Pope here leads his quintet through seven new originals on the follow up to the group’s...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2024
David Duffy Quartet: Where the Branches Begin
Warren Walker | Davie Ryan | Emil Nerstrand | David Duffy | Marc Martin
This debut disc as bandleader from Barcelona-based Irish bassist, composer and producer David Duffy is steeped in widescreen atmospherics –...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2024
Rich Halley: Fire Within
Michael Bisio | Newman Taylor Baker | Matthew Shipp | Rich Halley
Saxophonist-leader-composer Rich Halley has proved notably consistent over the past decade, recording mostly in a piano-less quartet in which the...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2024
Anaïs Reno: At PizzaExpress Live - In London
Josh Morrison | Dave Green | Pete Malinverni | Anaïs Reno
As anyone who heard Swiss-born, NYC-based vocalist Anaïs Reno’s debut album, Lovesome Thing, will know, her musicality at the age...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2024
Leon Spencer: Where I’m Coming From
Texas-born Spencer (1945–2012) is today little-known, but was in the early 1970s an in-demand jazz organist, playing on sessions for...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2024
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