Reviews
Matinier/Ambrosini: Inventio
French accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier and Italian Nyckelharpa player Marco Ambrosini favour a traditional, sensuous music informed by jazz, baroque and...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014
Rodrigo Amado Wire Quartet: Wire Quartet
Manuel Mota | Rodrigo Amado | Hernâni Faustino | Gabriel Ferrandini
The presence of freely-extemporising guitarist Manuel Mota within this all-Portuguese set-up pushes the creations of its bandleader into more radicalised...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: July/2014
Oran Etkin: Gathering Light
Ben Allison | Nasheet Waits | Curtis Fowlkes | Oran Etkin | Lionel Loueke
The hierarchy among reed instruments is bravely inverted here as the bass clarinet, often seen as the oddball member of...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2014
Mingus Dynasty: Chair In The Sky
The bookends of Mingus's second connection with Warner/Atlantic, with Moves being his first album since the recently reissued Columbias (Let...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2014
Album Interview: Joshua Redman: Trios Live
Joshua Redman | Matt Penman | Gregory Hutchinson | Reuben Rogers
Following last year's orchestral ensemble-backed recording Walking Shadows, featuring a set entirely made up of ballads, Redman has pared things...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014
Roan Kearsey-Lawson: Presence in Mind
This vibraphonist/marimba-composer's UK-based band is drawn in the main to the cool chamber sounds of MJQ and features multi-reedsman Duncan...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014
Charles Mingus: The Jazz Experiments Of Charles Mingus
John LaPorta | Charles Mingus | Teo Macero | Clem DaRosa | Jackson Wiley | Thad Jones
Disregarding those Baron Mingus 78s he cut in California in the 1940s, these are amongst the first steps Charles Mingus...
Reviewed by Roy Carr in issue: July/2014
Georgie Fame, Madeline Bell & Steve Gray: Singer
Recorded in 2004, Fame wrote the music/lyrics and Gray arranged this musical curio about a tragic fictional vocalist á la...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2014
The Chico Hamilton Quintet: A Different Journey
Albert Stinson | Charles Lloyd | George Bohanon | Gabor Szabor | Chico Hamilton
This valuable re-release is a part of Warner Japan's ‘Jazz: Best Collection 1000’ series of 24 bit remastered classics, mainly...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2014
Nicola Conte: Free Souls
Like his 2011 release, Love & Revolution, this latest album from Italian guitarist, DJ, producer and songsmith Nicola Conte features...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2014

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