Review of Various Artists: This Is Flying Dutchman 1969-1975

Various Artists: This Is Flying Dutchman 1969-1975

Bob Thiele | Caesar | Esther Marrow | Gil Scott-Heron | Leon Thomas | Lonnie Liston Smith | Oliver Nelson | Ornette Coleman | Steve Allen

Editor's Choice

BGP

Rating: ★★★★

BGP, one of the foremost curators of classic independent black music, has issued many titles on the pioneering Flying Dutchman...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2023

Review of Immanuel Wilkins: The 7th Hand

Immanuel Wilkins: The 7th Hand

Adrian Somerville Jr. | Agyei Keita Edwards | Daryl Johns | Elena Pinderhughes | Immanuel Wilkins | Jamal Dickerson | Kweku Sumbry | Micah Thomas | Yao Akoto

Editor's Choice

Blue Note 602438327508

Rating: ★★★★

Following the buzz around his debut Omega released in 2020 on Blue Note, the 24-year-old Philadelphia born-and-raised alto saxophonist-composer Immanuel...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2022

Review of Jason Palmer: Rhyme And Reason

Jason Palmer: Rhyme And Reason

Jason Palmer | Kendrick Scott | Mark Turner | Matt Brewer

Giant Step Arts

Rating: ★★★★

Improvising musicians have long adapted each other’s songs to create new work, and this album is an invigorating example of...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2019

Review of Various Artists: Liberation Music

Various Artists: Liberation Music

Angela Davis | Bob Thiele Emergency | Chico Hamilton | Gil Scott-Heron | Horace Tapscott Quintet | Leon Thomas | Lonnie Liston Smith | Oliver Nelson

Rating: ★★★★

The latest installment in BGP’s Flying Dutchman reissue programme is a compilation that shines a spotlight on the politically charged...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2013

Review of Kristian Borring: Nausicaa

Kristian Borring: Nausicaa

Arthur Lea | Jon Scott | Kristian Borring | Spencer Brown | Will Vinson

Ultra Sound Records

Rating: ★★★

This young London-based, Danish guitarist-composer attended the Amsterdam Consevatorium, then studied at the Guildhall and has been a sideman for...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2012

Review of Diego Pinera: Odd Wisdom

Diego Pinera: Odd Wisdom

Ben Monder | Diego Pinera | Donny McCaslin | Scott Colley

ACT

Rating: ★★

Berlin-based drummer Diego Pinera, who hails from Montevideo, Uruguay, says he studied music in places where it came from –...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2021

Review of Dominick Farinacci: Short Stories

Dominick Farinacci: Short Stories

Alison Rayner | Buster Birch | Deirdre Cartwright | Diane McLoughlin | Steve Lodder

Blow the Fuse

Rating: ★★★

Initially mentored by Wynton Marsalis, this Ohio-raised trumpeter offers a package of updated ‘classic’ jazz with guests that include Christian...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Review of Edward Simon with Afi nidad & Imani Winds: Sorrows & Triumphs

Edward Simon with Afi nidad & Imani Winds: Sorrows & Triumphs

Adam Rogers | Brian Blade | David Binney | Edward Simon | Gretchen Parlato | Jeff Scott | Luis Quintero | Mark Dover | Monica Ellis | Rogerio Boccato

Sunnyside Records SSC

Rating: ★★★

Venezuela-born, US-based pianist-composer Edward Simon is, according to JazzTimes, “less talked about than many other important jazz pianists from the...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2018

Review of Francesco Cataldo: Spaces

Francesco Cataldo: Spaces

Clarence Penn | David Binney | Erik Friedlander | Francesco Cataldo | Salvatore Bonafede | Scott Colley

Alfa Music

Rating: ★★★

Francesco Cataldo was born in Sicily. He is a musician of great sensitivity and, as a prolific composer his work...

Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: September/2013

Review of Maynard Ferguson: The Lost Tapes Bonus

Maynard Ferguson: The Lost Tapes Bonus

Maynard Ferguson | Ronnie Ross | Ronnie Scott

Sleepy Night SNRCD025

Rating: ★★

What are we supposed to make of this? As with Sleepy Night’s previous volume of archive Ferguson material, this is...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: February/2022

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