Review of Billy Jenkins: True Love Collection

Billy Jenkins: True Love Collection

Billy Jenkins | Christine Tobin | Dave Ramm | Django Bates | Iain Ballamy | Martin France | Mike Pickering | Steve Noble | Steve Watts | The Fun Horns of Berlin

VOTP

Rating: ★★★★

It's yesterday once more… the Man from Lewisham may currently be enjoying an episode of silence but here's a world...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2017

Review of Jo Berger Myhre: Unheimlich Manoeuvre

Jo Berger Myhre: Unheimlich Manoeuvre

Jana Anisimova | Jo Berger Myrhe | Jo David Lysne | Kaven Mahmudiyan | Morten Qvenild | Olatur Bjorn Olaffson | Vivian Wang

RareNoiseRecords RN0131

Rating: ★★★

Pour a sloe gin slowly as you savour your slow-cooked supper, because you are about to enter the oh so...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2022

Review of Nérija: Blume

Nérija: Blume

Cassie Kinoshi | Lizy Exell | Nubya Garcia | Rio Kai | Rosie Turton | Sheila Maurice-Grey | Shirley Tetteh

Editor's Choice

Domino (CD/LP)

Rating: ★★★★

This long-awaited debut album from one of the most exciting young groups on the UK scene sounds like classic Blue...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: September/2019

Review of Polly Gibbons: All I Can Do

Polly Gibbons: All I Can Do

James Pearson | Mark McLean | Paul Bollenback | Polly Gibbons | Richie Goods | Shedrick Mitchell | Tamir Hendelman

Editor's Choice

Resonance Records

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded before an invited audience at NYC's Power Station Studios, this third Resonance release from Polly Gibbons is one of...

Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: July/2019

Review of Roswell Rudd: Trombone For Lovers

Roswell Rudd: Trombone For Lovers

Aaron Comess | Bob Dorough | Dennis Nelson | Fay Victor | Gary Lucas | Ira Coleman | John Medeski | Matthew Finck | Michael Ducret | NYC Labor Chorus

Sunnyside

Rating: ★★★

As it says on the tin: the veteran trombonist delivers a set of unabashedly tender, heartstringspulling fare which harks back...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2014

Review of Ingrid Laubrock + Aki Takase: Kasumi

Ingrid Laubrock + Aki Takase: Kasumi

Aki Takase | Ingrid Laubrock

Intakt

Rating: ★★★

All the accumulated wisdom and curiosity of a half-century at the sharp end of jazz – but none of the...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: February/2020

Review of Abdullah Ibrahim: Ancient Africa

Abdullah Ibrahim: Ancient Africa

Abdullah Ibrahim

Sackville

Rating: ★★★★

This exemplifies the mature period of Ibrahim when, following his late 1950s-early 60s South African band work and his 1960s...

Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2017

Review of Randal Despommier ft. Ben Monder: A Midsummer Odyssey

Randal Despommier ft. Ben Monder: A Midsummer Odyssey

Ben Monder | Randal Despommier

Editor's Choice

Sunnyside Records

Rating: ★★★★

Some of his fellow Swedes somewhat disparagingly called Lars Gullin a crafter of ‘cattle-shed jazz’ (‘fäbodjazz’), the implication being that...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: August/2022

Review of Bojan Z/Julien Lourau: Duo

Bojan Z/Julien Lourau: Duo

Bojan Zulfikarpasic | Julien Lourau

2Birds1stone Productions

Rating: ★★

The Serbian-born pianist/keyboardist Bojan Z and saxophonist Julien Lourau are both internationally acclaimed French-based jazz musicians sharing a background in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2016

Review of Vector Families: For Those About To Jazz/Rock We Salute You

Vector Families: For Those About To Jazz/Rock We Salute You

Anthony Cox | Brandon Wozniak | Dave King | Dean Granros

Sunnyside

Rating: ★★★

Panic not, this isn’t, Zeus save us, another Colosseum reissue (or even an AC/DC tribute, though that would’ve been fun):...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2018

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