Silence Blossoms
Gus Loxbo | Hanna Olivegren | Sam Andreae
This eponymous Anglo-Scandinavian debut is essentially an exploration of simple song forms – albeit one that places those songs in...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: July/2014
Vincent Herring: Preaching To The Choir
One of the less-lionised among the Young Lions of the 1990s, Herring perhaps didn’t get the same publicity because he...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: July/2021
Throttle Elevator Music Featuring Kamasi Washington: Retrospective
Ava Mendoza | Erik Jekabson | Gregory Howe | Kamasi Washington | Matt Montgomery | Thomas McRee
While the name Throttle Elevator Music suggests a group, the marketing doesn't leave the star status of one of its...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2017
John Bailey Quartet: Heart Horizons
The 28-year-old Preston-born, Leeds College of Music graduate is a world and folk-inflected classical guitarist and his improvising quartet includes...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014
Alex Hitchcock: Dream Band
Lockdown provided us all with a stream of solipsistic solo records. But Alex Hitchcock looks outside of himself on Dream...
Reviewed by Hugh Morris in issue: December/January/2021/2022
Wild Card: Cabin 19 Fever
Party-hearty Wild Card have been a popular live attraction for a decade. Their sixth release, Cabin 19 Fever, was largely...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: March/2023
Hank Crawford: Three Classic Albums Plus
This set – with some of the subject's best playing – collects three of Crawford's own albums and his feature...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2019
Julia Biel
Idris Rahman | Julia Biel | Rob Updegraff | Saleem Raman | Samy Bishai
The follow-up to 2015’s acclaimed Love Letters and Other Missiles, which garnered nominations for a MOBO and an Urban Music...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018
Vince Mendoza & Metropole Orkest: Olympians
I was a guest of vocalist Silje Nergaard when she recorded A Thousand True Stories in 2008 with the Metropole...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2023
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood Of Breath: Procession Live At Toulouse
It seems appropriate that this legendary ensemble was recorded at its creative peak in France, as this was, after all,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2013
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