Bill Laurance & The Untold Orchestra: Bloom
Bill Laurance | Rory Storm | The Untold Orchestra
It’s 10 years since classically-trained piano virtuoso Bill Laurance stepped out from the long (rather funky) shadow of Snarky Puppy...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: May/2024
Anthony Braxton: Quartet (Standards) 2020
Alexander Hawkins | Anthony Braxton | Neil Charles | Stephen Davis
While pursuing his path as an uncompromisingly original composer, Anthony Braxton has regularly visited ‘the tradition’ during his long career....
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2021
Hannes Bennich: When Losing A Dream To Reality
Britta Virves | Emil Norman | Hannes Bennich | Helen Salim | Tomas Sjödell
There’s an inviting warmth to the sound of this album, thanks presumably to Stockholm’s Yardhouse Studio, giving a rounded fullness...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: November/2022
The Gerry Mulligan Sextet: Night Lights + Butterfly With Hiccups
Two ex-Limelight albums combined, and featuring the short-lived 1960s Mulligan sextet, together with a couple of live tracks for good...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: August/2021
Bill Laurance: Flint
Cracking the nut that is creating organically hewn, as opposed to factory processed, jazz dance music is something that countless...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: August/2014
Nicholas Payton: Bitches
Cassandra Wilson | Chinah Blac | Esperanza Spalding | N'Dambi | Nicholas Payton | Saunders Sermons
Given the use of the b-word in the title and the fact that Payton, once touted as a serious contender...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2012
Steve Lawson: The Surrender of Time
If the concept of the studio as an instrument is one that's been around since the birth of multi-track recording...
Reviewed by Mike Flynn in issue: September/2016
Julia Hülsmann Quartet: Under the Surface
In June 2012 the Julia Hülsmann Trio became a quartet with the addition of Tom Arthurs on trumpet who stayed...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2025
Dee Byrne's Entropi: Moment Frozen
Andre Canniere | Dee Byrne | Matt Fisher | Olie Brice | Rebecca Nash
London-based altoist and LUME collective co-founder Dee Byrne cites astronomy, time, the intensity of John Coltrane, late period Miles Davis...
Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018
Sam Rivers Trio: Sam Rivers Archive Project Volume 6: Caldera
Anthony Cole | Doug Matthews | Sam Rivers
Throughout his lengthy career Sam Rivers had a seemingly inexhaustible reserve of energy and ideas, and his principle of ‘streams’...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: February/2023
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