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The Messthetics And James Brandon Lewis
Brendan Canty | Anthony Pirog | Joe Lally | James Brandon Lewis
The Messthetics get maximum points for a great name, but that's not all they have in their favour. Drummer Brendan...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
Shabaka Hutchings: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace can be seen and heard as a conceptual rejoinder to Afrikan Culture. That album...
Reviewed in issue April/2024
Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert
On 21 February 1971, Alice Coltrane took to the stage at New York’s Carnegie Hall as part of a benefit...
Reviewed in issue April/2024
John Coltrane/Eric Dolphy: Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy
John Coltrane | Reggie Workman | Eric Dolphy | McCoy Tyner | Elvin Jones
There have been some fascinating, and absorbing, discoveries of previously unissued Coltrane material culled from a variety of sources, but...
Reviewed in issue August/2023
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle
Three years ago the release of Both Directions At Once offered up something genuinely new; unearthed tapes of Coltrane playing...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Brandee Younger: Somewhere Different
From the inventive comping in the striking album opener ‘Reclamation’ to the heavy ostinato of the final track, ‘Tickled Pink’,...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Alice Coltrane: Kirtan: Turiya Sings
In the past few years, the full extent of Alice Coltrane's talents has been coming into sharper focus, and this...
Reviewed in issue August/2021
Sons of Kemet: Black to the Future
The fourth LP by the Shabaka Hutchings-led ‘super-quartet’ Sons of Kemet comes with a mission statement reinforcing the politics at...
Reviewed in issue June/2021
Michael Brecker
Michael Brecker | Jack DeJohnette | Charlie Haden | Kenny Kirkland | Pat Metheny
Although widely recognised as the most influential saxophonist since John Coltrane, and having already appeared on some 700 albums by...
Reviewed in issue February/2021
Thelonious Monk: Palo Alto
Larry Gales | Thelonious Monk | Charlie Rouse | Ben Riley
Yet another surprise in the now-annual parade of previously unreleased gems from the big names of the past, this is...
Reviewed in issue August/2020
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