Matt Calvert: Million Seller
Calvert takes his cues from Herbie Hancock’s 1971 classic Mwandishi. And if you thought Hancock’s ground-breaking use of electric keys...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: December/January/2023/2024
WorldService Project: Hiding in Plain Sight
Arthur O’Hara | Ben Powling | Dave Morecroft | Kieran McLeod | Luke Reddin-Williams
WorldService Project's personnel have changed markedly since their first embattled Brexit response, Serve (2018), but the assaultive, defiant intent remains....
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: November/2020
Snowpoet: Wait For Me
The word Snowpoet, alone, steers the ear toward the intimate and abstracted landscapes of this album. The duo of Chris...
Reviewed by Debra Richards in issue: April/2021
Quadraceratops
Take your eyes off the action on the young jazz scene for one moment and a whole load of new...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2014
Orrin Evans: Liberation Blues
Bill Stewart | JD Allen | Joanna Pascale | Luques Curtis | Orrin Evans | Sean Jones
What a great CD with which to start a new year! Every Evans recording seems so fresh. Each of his...
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2015
Kenny Burrell: Four Classic Albums
Originally inspired by Charlie Christian, Burrell, now in his 92nd year, must be counted as one of the jazz world's...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2023
Joe McPhee: Nation Time
“What time is it?” “Nation time!” From the incantatory call-and-response intro echoing poet Amiri Baraka’s impassioned, Afro-centric call to action,...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: Feb/2019
Vula Viel: Good is Good
Bex Burch | Dan Nicholls | Dave De Rose | George Crowley | Jim Hart | Simon Roth | Stephen Bure
Learning hand-to-hand triplets on the djembe before studying classical percussion at the Guildhall, the Yorkshire-born Bex Burch had set off...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2015
Ollie Howell: Sutures and Stitches
Duncan Eagles | Mark Perry | Matt Robinson | Max Luthert | Ollie Howell
None other than Quincy Jones saw something very special in this now London-based drummer when he saw him perform in...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: Dec/Jan/2013/2014
Phil Haynes’ 4 Horns & What?: The Complete American Recordings
Not a name that immediately springs to mind when recalling the 1980s-to-early-90s New York Downtown scene, drummer-percussionist-composer Phil Haynes was...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2024
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