Review of Madeleine Peyroux: Careless Love

Madeleine Peyroux: Careless Love

David Piltch | Dean Parks | Jay Bellerose | Kevin Hays | Larry Goldings | Lee Thornburg | Madeleine Peyroux | Matt Penman | Scott Amendola

Craft Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Billy Childs: The Winds of Change

Billy Childs: The Winds of Change

Ambrose Akinmusire | Billy Childs | Brian Blade | Scott Colley

Editor's Choice

Mack Avenue Records

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Frank Kimbrough Quartet: Monk's Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk

Frank Kimbrough Quartet: Monk's Dreams: The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Sphere Monk

Billy Drummond | Frank Kimbrough | Rufus Reid | Scott Robinson

Sunnyside

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Alex Sipiagin: Overlooking Moments

Alex Sipiagin: Overlooking Moments

Alex Sipiagin | Chris Potter | Eric Harland | Scott Colley

Criss Cross Jazz

Rating: ★★★★

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

Review of Andrew Woodhead: Pendulums: Music for Bellringers, Improvisers & electronics

Andrew Woodhead: Pendulums: Music for Bellringers, Improvisers & electronics

Alex Frye | Alicia Gardener-Trejo | Andrew Woodhead | Angie Wakefield | Charlotte Keeffe | Graham Kelly | Helen Papaioannou | Jonathan Thorne | Lee Griffiths | Matthew King

Leker

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Michel Sajrawy: Writings on the Wall

Michel Sajrawy: Writings on the Wall

Ameen Atrash | Evgeni Maistrovski | Franck Dhersin | Michel Sajrawy | Valeri Lipets

Ozella

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of R+R=Now: Live

R+R=Now: Live

Robert Glasper

Blue Note

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Michel Sajrawy: Arabop

Michel Sajrawy: Arabop

Adnan Hadda | Amiram Granot | Maali Klar | Michel Sajrawy | Nehaya Damouni | Samir Makhoul | Stas Zilberman | Valeri Lipets | Wisam Arram

Ozella

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Eric Johnson & Mike Stern: Eclectic

Eric Johnson & Mike Stern: Eclectic

Anton Fig | Chris Maresh | Christopher Cross | Eric Johnson | Guy Forsyth | Leni Stern | Malford Milligan | Mike Stern

Heads Up

Rating: ★★★

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

Review of Dan Wilson: Vessels of Wood and Earth

Dan Wilson: Vessels of Wood and Earth

Dan Wilson

Brother Mister/Mack Avenue

Rating: ★★★

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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