Reviews
Darius Jones/Matthew Shipp: Cosmic Lieder: The Darkseid Recital
Four years on from Cosmic Lieder, Shipp and Jones reprise the title but add a new heading to suggest a...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2014
Conte Candoli: Sincerely Conte
Meagre 23 minute playing time doesn't mar this reissue of Candoli's high-powered 1954 hard bop quintet originally cut for Bethlehem...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: October/2014
Miguel Zenón: Identities Are Changeable
Very few jazz musicians have gained more respect on cultural levels in recent years than the superb saxophonist Miguel Zenón....
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: October/2014
Jim Black Trio: Actuality
Elias Stemeseder | Jim Black | Thomas Morgan
Have Germany's Winter & Winter label stopped doing their special cardboard CD design packaging? Well, as they say, it's the...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014
Farmers By Nature: Love and Ghosts
William Parker | Craig Taborn | Gerald Cleaver
Jazz industry convention would call FBN a piano trio but that would be something of a restrictive term. Cleaver, Parker...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2014
David Sancious: Forest Of Feelings/Transformation (The Speed Of Love)
David Sancious | Gayle Moran | Billy Cobham | Ernest Carter | Gerald Carboy
Springsteen fans must have had a shock if they sought out these releases having clocked Sancious on The Boss' first...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2014
Stan Getz: England 1958/Chicago 1957
Norman Granz's Jazz At The Philharmonic troupe made their first UK national tour in May 1958, opening at the Gaumont...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: October/2014
Rotem Sivan Trio: For Emotional Use Only
An impressive sounding NYC-based Israeli guitarist-composer with a fleet lyricism influenced by deep-rooted traditions as well as Middle Eastern and...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014
Bearetown: Leaning Jazz
Former Brighton-based tenor saxophonist Sigi Beare settled in Italy following her studies at the prestigious Siena Jazz School and her...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014
Mammal Hands: Animalia
Jesse Barrett | Jordan Smart | Nick Smart
If the musicians Matthew Halsall welcomes onto Manchester's Gondwana label share an MO, it's for meditatively circling passages, rhythmic drive...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: October/2014

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