Reviews
Mark Weinstein: Latin Jazz Underground
Roman Diaz | Mark Weinstein | Rashaan Carter | Gerald Cleaver | Aruán Ortiz
Mark Weinstein, who secured a PhD in Philosophy at City University of New York in 1973, has an astonishing background...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: November/2014
Wadada Leo Smith/Jamie Saft/Joe Morris/Balasz Pandi: Red Hill
Balazs Pandi | Joe Morris | Jamie Saft | Wadada Leo Smith
One of the great challenges for any free improvising group is balance. Given the democracy of the premise, everybody can...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2014
Tobias Christl: Wildern
From the Munich label's Young German Jazz series, this vocalist takes a singularly grungy jazz angle on everything from New...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014
Leo Appleyard: Pembroke Road
Eric Ford | Leo Appleyard | Neil Yates | Duncan Eagles | Max Luthert
Guitarist Leo Appleyard makes his debut as a leader on CD with this thoughtful collection of eight originals and one...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: November/2014
Gene Ammons: Blue Groove/Preachin'
Gene Ammons never really enjoyed whatever success he ought to have had as both a prolific and popular recording artist,...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: November/2014
Eyot: Similarity
Get The Blessing bassist/producer Jim Barr liked this Serbian prog-jazz quartet enough when they met at their country's Nis jazz...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2014
Colin Webster/Mark Holub: Viscera
Three albums in, and the duo of Webster and Holub are really starting to get their sound together. Holub, of...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: November/2014
Nina Simone: Little Girl Blue
Nina Simone's finest early work from Bethlehem has been out on loads of labels since, but it remains a classic,...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2014
Nomad Collective: Soundscapes of a Bedouin Rudeboy
A hypnotic, trippy debut from a seven-piece collective with a refreshingly subtle sense of rhythm coming mostly from Jamaican and...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2014
Hubert Laws: Crying Song/Afro-Classic/The Rite of Spring
What a fascinating little time-capsule this double-CD reissue is. The three albums, recorded for Creed Taylor's CTI label between 1969...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: November/2014

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