Susan Alcorn & Phillip Greenlief: Prism Mirror Lens
Phillip Greenlief | Susan Alcorn
What a delectable dance of dappled textures. Baltimore-based pedal-steel player Susan Alcorn has garnered a deserved reputation for just this...
Reviewed by Spencer Grady in issue: February/2020
Takeo Moriyama: East Plants
Hideaki Mochizuki | Shuichi Enomoto | Takeo Moriyama | Toshiko Inoue | Yohji Sadanari
The BBE Jazz Masterclass reissue series continues apace with another fine offering from Japan. Drummer Moriyama is not well known...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2018
Steve Melling: Keys To The Upper Story
Melling's work with Peter King, Alan Skidmore and Clark Tracey has led to some people taking his excellent pianism for...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: February/2013
Meg Morley Trio: Can't Get Started
Emiliano Caroselli | Meg Morley | Richard Sadler
A sometime pianist for silent-cinema by night, Morley swiftly followed 2017's solo piano debut Through the Hours by forming a...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: May/2018
Claire Daly Quintet: 2648 West Grand Boulevard
Claire Daly | Jerome Harris | Mary Ann McSweeney | Peter Grant | Steve Hudson
Arriving as a seeming response to our March reader's letter about Motown, this album (though doubtless recorded earlier) refers in...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: May/2017
Bill Frisell: Floratone II
Frisell's contribution to American music, especially over the last decade, cannot be doubted. So here's the heresy: Floratone just don't...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2012
Dave Liebman/Billy Hart/Adam Rudolph: Beingness
Adam Rudolph | Billy Hart | Dave Liebman
The music for this CD was recorded in live performance in John Zorn’s venue The Stone, formerly in Greenwich Village,...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2025
Album Interview: Geri Allen: Grand River Crossings
David McMurray | Geri Allen | Marcus Belgrave
If Flying Toward The Sound (2010) paid homage to Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock, and A Child Is...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: September/2013
Album Interview: Fatoumata Diawara: Fatou
The Malian singer/songwriter and former backing vocalist Fatoumata Diawara – aka Fatou – is currently making waves with her sweet-voiced...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: October/2011
Trevor Watts: The Lantern Tree
Trevor Watts doth bestride the saxophone like a colossus and has done so these past four score years and five....
Reviewed by Chris Welch in issue: March/2025
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