Reviews
BlankFor.ms/Jason Moran/Marcus Gilmore: Refract
Jason Moran | Marcus Gilmore | BlankFor.ms
There is a long, rich history of collaborations between producers-electronic artists and improvising musicians, and this is certainly one of...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2023
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension
Secret Society, says the sleeve notes, make music that is topical and unabashedly political. Well, thank goodness someone is. Railing...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2023
Balimaya Project: When the Dust Settles
Ten tracks. Ten big topics. Death. Grief. Truth. Anger. Pride. A multi-layered wall of Afro-centric rhythms played out on percussion...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2023
Billie Bottle’s Temple of Shibboleth
The ‘Lockdown Years’ generated much intriguing music, not the least Tori Freestone and Alcyona Mick’s sumptuous Make One Little Room...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2023
Susan Alcorn/José Lencastre/Hernâni Faustino: Manifesto
Susan Alcorn | Hernâni Faustino | José Lencastre
Pedal steel ace Susan Alcorn has single-handedly liberated her instrument from its traditional role in country music, recontextualising it as...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: October/2023
Idris Muhammad: Black Rhythm Revolution!
Two great drummers, two very different outcomes. Jazz was a part of New Orleans-born Idris Muhammad's upbringing early on, and...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: September/2023
John Stubblefield: Bushman Song
John Stubblefield | Victor Lewis | Geri Allenn | Charnett Moffett | Mino Cinelu
Sad as it may be to think that not just the leader of this session, John Stubblefield – an underrated...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2023
Naya Baaz: Charm
Satoshi Takeishi | Rez Abbasi | Josh Feinberg | Jennifer Vincent
Since his arrival on the jazz scene, Karachi-born, California-based guitarist Rez Abbasi has made excellent music as a bandleader, but...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2023
Itamar Borochov: Arba
Rick Rosato | Jay Sawyer | Rob Clearfield | Avri Borochov | Itamar Borochov
On his sixth album to date, this New York-based trumpeter-composer, who hails from Jaffa in Israel, stays close to his...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2023
James Mainwaring: Meditations 1A
Best known as one third of MOBO and Mercury Prize nominated Roller Trio, here saxophonist James Mainwaring turns away from...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: September/2023
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