Marcos Valle & Stacey Kent: Nice to Meet You Ao Vivo

Alberto Continentino | Aldivas Ayres | Marcelo Martins | Luiz Brasil | Jim Tomlinson | Jessé Sadoc | Marcos Valle | Renato ‘Massa’ Calmon | Stacey Kent

Released to celebrate his half-century as a singer songwriter, this live album recorded in Rio's Miranda concert hall sees the...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2015

Ma: Live

Gerald Watkins | Jason Marsalis | Jasen Weaver | Oscar Rossignoli

I saw Ma playing live three or four years ago, during the period from which these three tracks date –...

Reviewed by Marcus O'Dair in issue: August/2020

Tom Green Septet: Skyline

As readers will know by now, Green is something of a latter-day phenomenon, his recent adoption as a Jerwood/Serious Take...

Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: June/2015

Stefan Pasborg Carsten Dahl: Live at SMK

Danish duo of pianist Carsten Dahl and drummer Stefan Pasborg live from Copenhagen's National Gallery with the spirit of Paul...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

Avishai Cohen Trio: From Darkness

Avishai Cohen | Nitai Hershkovitts | Daniel Dor

The tried and tested axiom of ‘new players, new life’ or rather ‘younger players, greater energy’ acquires much credence here....

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2015

Dave Bass: NYC Sessions

A committed if over familiar kind of US straightahead quartet session led by Cincinnati pianist-composer Dave Bass but with the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015

Marc Cary: Rhodes Ahead Vol.2

Jabari Exum | Sharif Simmonds | Marc Cary | Aurelian Budynek | Burniss ‘Earl’ Traviss | Daniel Moreno | Igmar Thomas | Tarus Mateen | Terreon ‘Tank’ Gully | Arun Ramamurthy

As the title makes clear this is the second installment of Cary's celebration of the electric piano, the first rightfully...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2015

Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth: Epicenter

Tony Malaby | Chris Lightcap | Chris Cheek | Craig Taborn | Gerald Cleaver

Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth have quietly been accumulating favourable reviews for almost 10 years now, but they really began to get...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2015

Various Artists: Highlife on the Move Selected Nigerian and Ghanaian recordings from London & Lagos 1954-66

Fela Ransome-Kuti | Awotwi Paynin & his Ghanan Rockers | The Highlife Rakers | West African Rhythm Brothers

In the 1970s, Highlife became a crucial component of Afrobeat, although for Fela Kuti, who is usually credited with defining...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2015

Mohamed Abozekry: Ring Road

Trained in classical Arabic music, this Egyptian, France-based oud player has a larger frame of reference infusing elements from flamenco,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2015