Kendrick Scott Oracle: A Wall Becomes A Bridge
Joe Sanders | John Ellis | Kendrick Scott | Mike Moreno | Taylor Eigisti
Scott's 2015 debut We Are The Drum served notice of his ability as a composer-bandleader even though he had already...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2019
Kendrick Scott Oracle: We Are The Drum
Joe Sanders | John Ellis | Kendrick Scott | Lizz Wright | Mike Moreno | Taylor Eigisti
If good sidemen affect the music of leaders then the converse may also hold true. In some ways this enjoyable...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: Dec/Jan/2015/2016
Quiana Lynell: A Little Love
Cyrus Chestnut | Ed Cherry | George DeLancey | Jamison Ross | Monte Croft | Quiana Lynell
The first thing that strikes you when listening to album opener ‘We Are’ on this impressive debut album from Texas-born,...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: June/2019
Mark Turner: Yam Yam
Recorded in 1994, the Young Lions resurgence was well under way by the time Turner made this, his debut as...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2022
Aaron Parks: Arborescence
Aaron Parks is a young pianistcomposer who has very gradually grown in stature since his teenage years in Terence Blanchard's...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Dexter Gordon: Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard
Dexter Gordon | Louis Hayes | Ronnie Matthews | Stafford James | Woody Shaw
Dexter Gordon moved to Copenhagen in 1962. He sent back a couple of musical postcards from Paris, one in 1963,...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2021
Dr John: Ske Dat De Dat – The Spirit of Satch
Maybe they should have released Locked Down (the late good Doctor's 2012 collaboration with Black Keys hero Dan Auerbach) instead...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2020
Carlo De Rosa’s Cross-Fade: Brain Dance
Carlo De Rosa | Justin Brown | Mark Shim | Vijay Iyer
DeRosa is quite a revelation. Best known as a sideman on records with the likes of Ralph Alessi and Rudresh...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: March/2012
Samadhi Quintet: The Dance of Venus
Dominic J Marshall | Krzysztof Urbanski | Sam Bell | Sam Gardner | Sam Vicary
Released by the recording arm of the F-IRE Collective, Samadhi Quintet is led by a young ex-Leeds College of Music...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2015
Ivan Lins: My Heart Speaks
The album title, My Heart Speaks, is taken from the Lins composition, ‘The Heart Speaks,’ and was recorded on an...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2023
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