Review of Archie the Goldfish: Water & Light

Archie the Goldfish: Water & Light

Aidan Thorne | Chris Bestwick | Graeme Flowers | Kishon Khan | Nadia Basurto

Funkiwala Records

Rating: ★★★

Archie the Goldfish is a new project from Graeme Flowers and Chris Bestwick, who first played together over two decades...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: September/2021

Review of Michelle Lordi: Two Moons

Michelle Lordi: Two Moons

Caleb Curtis | Eric Revis | Matthew Parrish | Michelle Lordi | Nasheet Waits | Orrin Evans

Imani

Rating: ★★★

Michelle Lordi, who hails from Philadelphia, has taken the slightly unusual step of recording a jazz concept album. And what...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: February/2024

Review of Wolfgang Muthspiel: Dance of the Elders

Wolfgang Muthspiel: Dance of the Elders

Brian Blade | Scott Colley | Wolfgang Muthspiel

Editor's Choice

ECM ECM

Rating: ★★★★

Nine years after his ECM debut Driftwood, Muthspiel may consider himself one of the ‘elders’ in the title of his...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: November/2023

Review of Xhosa Cole: On A Modern Genius (Vol.1)

Xhosa Cole: On A Modern Genius (Vol.1)

Heidi Vogel | Josh Vadiveloo | Liberty Styles | Nathan England Jones | Steve Saunders | Xhosa Cole

Editor's Choice

Stoney Lane

Rating: ★★★★

Birmingham saxophonist Xhosa Cole cements his reputation as one of the UK’s most exciting improvisers on this tribute to Thelonious...

Reviewed by Thomas Rees in issue: February/2025

Review of Album Interview: Scott Kinsey: We Speak Luniwaz

Album Interview: Scott Kinsey: We Speak Luniwaz

Arto Tunöboyaciyan | Bobby Thomas | Gergö Borlai | Hadrien Feraud | Jimmy Haslip | Katisse Buckingham | Scott Kinsey

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★

Scott Kinsey got to know Joe Zawinul in the last years of his life and was namechecked as an ‘Assistant...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2019/2020

Review of Bill Laurance & Michael League: Where You Wish You Were

Bill Laurance & Michael League: Where You Wish You Were

Bill Laurance | Michael League

ACT Music

Rating: ★★★★

Bill Laurance and Michael League are the most prominent members of Grammy-winning supergroup Snarky Puppy, not the least because of...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2023

Review of Rachel Musson: Dreamsing

Rachel Musson: Dreamsing

Rachel Musson

577 Records

Rating: ★★★★

With so little opportunity for collaboration, instrumentalists have gone down the solo route, One such musician-composer is London-based experimental saxophonist...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2021

Review of Lionel Beuvens: Trinité

Lionel Beuvens: Trinité

Alexi Tuomarila | Brice Soniano | Kalevi Louhivuori | Lionel Beuvens

Igloo

Rating: ★★★

The brilliant young Finnish pianist Alexi Tuomarila studied jazz piano at the Brussels Conservatory and remained on the Belgian scene...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: May/2013

Review of Jeremy Pelt: Water and Earth

Jeremy Pelt: Water and Earth

Angela Roberts | Burniss Earl Travis | Dana Hawkins | David Bryant | Fabiana Masili | Frank Locrasto | Frank LoCrasto | Jeffrey Haynes | Jeremy Pelt | Ra-Re Valverde

High Note

Rating: ★★★

Jeremy Pelt's latest CD turns from the free-flowing exuberance of his highly-praised acoustic quintet to a loose-limbed keyboard-heavy jam featuring...

Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: June/2013

Review of Franco Ambrosetti: Lost Within You

Franco Ambrosetti: Lost Within You

Franco Ambrosetti | Jack DeJohnette | John Scofield | Renee Rosnes | Scott Colley | Uri Caine

Unit UTR

Rating: ★★★★

There are those who, in the past, have sniped at the stellar company with whom the trumpeter Franco Ambrosetti has...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2021

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