Reviews
Dell/Lillinger/Westergaard ft. Bob Degen: Supermodern Vol. II
Jonas Westergaard | Christopher Dell | Christian Lillinger | Bob Degen
Beautifully recorded and produced by legendary MPS engineer Friedhelm Schulz at the famous MPS Black Forest studio, this stunning-sounding album...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2024
Joachim Kühn & Michael Wollny: Duo
The piano duo is hardly a new, novel or modern idea. The finest early example, from 1779, is Mozart’s Piano...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2024
Sam Newsome & Jean-Michel Pilc: Cosmic Unconsciousness Unplugged
Sam Newsome | Jean-Michel Pilc
Reunited in the studio after their 2017 duo album Magic Circle, Newsome and Pilc started out on this project with...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2024
Mike Westbrook: Live 1972
Mike Westbrook | Gary Boyle | George Khan | Butch Potter | Alan Jackson
Happy birthday Cadillac! Okay, bit late now for their 50 years knees up, but Live 1972 is a fitting marker...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2024
Tito Puente: El Rey Bravo
Puente was more than a decade into his professional career when he released El Rey Bravo in 1962. It was,...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: February/2024
Joey Alexander: Continuance
John Davis | Theo Croker | Kris Funn | Joey Alexander
In 2014, when he was 10, the Indonesian piano prodigy Joey Alexander caught the ear of Wynton Marsalis, and the...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: February/2024
Ethan Iverson: Technically Acceptable
Ethan Iverson | Kush Abadey | Rob Schwimmer | Thomas Morgan | Vinnie Sperrazza | Simón Willson
The pianist-composer Ethan Iverson, since parting company with The Bad Plus in 2017, has been maintaining a steady profile with...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2024
João Gilberto: Ao Vivo No SESC — 1998 (Live at SESC)
In 1998, João Gilberto, one of the fathers of the Bossa Nova revival and an expert in Samba, was living...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2024
Yuhan Su: Liberated Gesture
Dan Weiss | Matt Mitchell | Caroline Davis | Marty Kenney | Yuhan Su
The Taiwanese-born New Yorker’s second Sunnyside release explores the sharp-angled rhythms and modal harmonies that characterised Bobby Hutcherson’s first Blue...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: February/2024
Phil Upchurch: Tell The Truth
Vince Wilburn Jnr | David Arnay | Kevin Axt | Phil Upchurch
Phil Upchurch, one of the great soul jazz guitarists of the 1970s, who cut killer albums such as Darkness, Darkness...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2024
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