Madeleine Peyroux: Careless Love
First issued back in 2004 on Rounder, Peyroux’s second album Careless Love was an instant, and massive, international hit. And...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: November/2021
Billy Childs: The Winds of Change
Ambrose Akinmusire | Billy Childs | Brian Blade | Scott Colley
The title track was originally written for Roy Hargrove and a large accompanying orchestra, but Childs' mission on this album...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: May/2023
Frank Kimbrough Quartet: Monk's Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk
Billy Drummond | Frank Kimbrough | Rufus Reid | Scott Robinson
This fascinating project brings together four extremely versatile musicians and all 70 known pieces of Monk magic, from the much-celebrated...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: Feb/2019
Alex Sipiagin: Overlooking Moments
Alex Sipiagin | Chris Potter | Eric Harland | Scott Colley
Criss Cross boss-producer Gerry Teekens is astonishingly loyal to his artistes. Take Russian trumpeter Sipiagin, for years now an in-demand...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: June/2013
Andrew Woodhead: Pendulums: Music for Bellringers, Improvisers & electronics
In his famous journal, the 14th century Moroccan scholar and explorer, Ibn Battuta, relates how, on hearing the bells of...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: August/2021
Michel Sajrawy: Writings on the Wall
Ameen Atrash | Evgeni Maistrovski | Franck Dhersin | Michel Sajrawy | Valeri Lipets
Recorded in 2007, Writings on the Wall hasn't been sealed hermetically in the vaults for the past five years but...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013
R+R=Now: Live
After the 2018 studio set Collagically Speaking comes a live album drawn from a month-long residency by Robert Glasper, biggest...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2021
Michel Sajrawy: Arabop
Michel Sajrawy, a Palestinian of Christian faith with an Israeli passport and a British conservatory education, is a fusionist for...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: February/2013
Eric Johnson & Mike Stern: Eclectic
Here's an unalloyed pleasure from two masters of their art: and there is much art in these fleet fingered maestros,...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2014/2015
Dan Wilson: Vessels of Wood and Earth
On much of this album there's a fine live feeling in the studio. ‘The Reconstruction’, has some burning solos from...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2021
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