Dayna Stephens: The Nepenthetic Place
Glib as it may sound, a marketing department may bill this as 1960s modernism àla Miles, Herbie, Evans et al,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: August/2013
Ben LaMar Gay: Certain Reveries
Ben LaMar Gay | Tommaso Moretti
Ben LaMar Gay has spent years in Chicago's black bohemian underground, contributing cornet, synths, vocals and poetry to an evocative...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: February/2023
Joshua Trinidad: In November
Jacob Young | Joshua Trinidad | Ståle Liavik Solberg
As good an example as any of a fruitful transatlantic creative exchange. Furthermore, this is an endorsement of perhaps a...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2018
Orrin Evans: The Magic of Now
Bill Stewart | Immanuel Wilkins | Orrin Evans | Vicente Archer
The most telling creative hallmark of long or deep experience is often an instinct for what to leave out. The...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2021
Trilok Gurtu: Spellbound
For his new CD, the veteran South Indian percussion maestro celebrates a triumvirate of jazz trumpet giants with the help...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2015
Melissa Aldana: Visions
Julian Anderson-Bowes | Leland Whitty | Matthew Chalmers | Matthew Tavares
The three-year gap between the 2013 Thelonious Monk Prize winner Melissa Aldana's fifth album, Visions, released on the East coast...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2020
Fabian Almazan Trio: Personalities
Fabian Almazan | Henry Cole | Karen Walluch | Linda Oh | Meg Okura | Megan Gould | Noah Hatfield
One of the best ways to succeed in music today, it seems, is to be associated with trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard....
Reviewed by Tony Hall in issue: February/2012
Jen Shyu & Jade Tongue: Zero Grasses: Ritual For The Losses
Since her emergence as a vital member of Steve Coleman's bands in the 2010s, vocalist Jen Shyu has gone on...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: June/2021
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
David Binney: Tomorrow’s Journey
Alto saxophonist-composer David Binney is also an in-demand producer and runs his own record label Mythology. Over a prolific recording...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2022
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