Reviews
GoGo Penguin
Rob Turner | Nick Blacka | Chris Illingworth
Much of the beauty of the new London jazz scene has been the music's reunion with black listeners, a replenishment...
Reviewed in issue June/2020
Charles Lloyd: 8: Kindred Spirits Live from the Lobero
Charles Lloyd has been an unacknowledged genius working in plain sight for far too long. Ever since his remarkable series...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
Gregory Porter: All Rise
Troy Miller | Jahmal Nichols | Gregory Porter | Chip Crawford
Following 2017’s heartfelt dedication to his lifelong idol, Nat King Cole & Me, this sixth studio album marks a welcome...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
Kandace Springs: The Women Who Raised Me
Kandace Springs | Clarence Penn | Steve Cardenas | Scott Colley
Following her critically acclaimed 2016 debut, Soul Eyes, and 2018’s Karriem Riggins-produced Indigo, the singer that Prince said possesses ‘a...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
Don Grolnick: Nighttown
Don Grolnick pretty much reached the top of his profession as a first-call New York studio musician in the 1970s...
Reviewed in issue April/2020
Bobby Hutcherson: Montara
Like many jazz musicians weaned on Bird and Diz, Hutcherson embraced Latin rhythms throughout his career, and this beautiful album,...
Reviewed in issue February/2020
Big John Patton: Oh Baby!
Grant Green | Ben Dixon | John Patton | Harold Vick | Blue Mitchell
Though Patton is one of the ‘Hammond heroes’ indelibly associated with the 1960s heyday of the instrument he enjoyed a...
Reviewed in issue February/2020
Bill Frisell: HARMONY
Petra Haden | Luke Bergman | Bill Frisell | Hank Roberts
Look no further than the title. Harmony in music, harmony of the soul, harmony in community: Frisell evokes it all...
Reviewed in issue November/2019
Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles
Freddie Hubbard | Herbie Hancock | Ron Carter
Along with Maiden Voyage, Empyrean Isles represents Herbie Hancock’s finest work for Blue Note. Empyrean Isles is Hancock’s fourth album...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
Andrew Hill: Point of Departure
Andrew Hill | Eric Dolphy | Joe Henderson | Kenny Dorham | Richard Davis | Anthony Williams
Andrew Hill’s reputation in jazz is based on the solid foundations of 12 Blue Note albums he made between 1963...
Reviewed in issue April/2019
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