Reviews
Bokanté: History
Bokanté began as a studio project centred around the collaboration between Guadeloupian singer/songwriter Malika Tirolien and Snarky Puppy bass player...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: July/2023
Charlie Parker: The Long Lost Bird Afro-Cubop Recordings
The ‘Afro-Cubop’ moniker is derived from Norman Granz's idea to feature Parker with Machito and his Afro-Cuban Orchestra on December...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2023
Eric Alexander: Alto Saxophone with Strings
Joe Farnsworth | John Webber | David Hazeltine | Eric Alexander | Bill Dobbins
Eric Alexander recorded his first ‘with strings’ album just over a decade ago, although it wasn't finally released until the...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: July/2023
Meshell Ndegeocello: The Omnichord Real Book
One of the key musical adventurer-eclectics of the last three decades, Meshell Ndegeocello remains pleasingly difficult to second guess. The...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2023
Peace Flag Ensemble: Astral Plains
Listening to ‘You Can't Pin Joy Like A Moth', the second track on Astral Plains, there's a sense of wavelets...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: July/2023
Miles Davis Quintet: Workin’
Paul Chambers Pierre Michelot | Philly Joe Jones | John Coltrane | Miles Davis | Red Garland
The first in the new series of all-analogue remastered (by Kevin Gray), reissues of the old OJC label in facsimile...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2023
Walter Bishop Jr: Bish at the Bank – Live in Baltimore
Harold Vick | Lou McIntosh | Dick Berk | Walter Bishop, Jr
This double album set is another find from the archives of the Left Bank Jazz Society in Baltimore, produced by...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2023
Cecilia Smith: The Mary Lou Williams Resurgence Project Volume 1
This fabulous album from vibist, composer, arranger and Artistic Director of the Mary Lou Williams Resurgence Project, Cecilia Smith, is...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2023
Alexander Hawkins Trio With Neil Charles & Stephen Davis: Carnival Celestial
Stephen Davis | Neil Charles | Alexander Hawkins
Hawkins – who must now vie with Shabaka Hutchings as the most ubiquitously hard-working man on the UK jazz scene...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2023
Lorenzo De Finti: Lullabies From An Unknown Time
Fabrizio Bosso | Lorenzo De Finti
For thousands of years across all cultures, lullabies have existed in one form or another as a way to soothe,...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: July/2023
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