Reviews
Nduduzo Makhathini: In the Spirit of Ntu
This is the second album by Makhathini to be issued on the Blue Note imprint; the first – Modes of...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2022
Ole Matthiessen: Social Distancing
The influential Danish pianist-producer Matthiessen, now 75, worked on these 13 pieces during 2020’s lockdown and says they look to...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2022
Nicole Johänntgen: Solo II
Last year, hard-working and just as hard-to-pigeonhole Swiss saxophonist Nicole Johänntgen released Henry III, the third instalment of her New...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: July/2022
Neil Ardley: Kaleidoscope of Rainbows
This is the final part of an Ardley trilogy, preceded by two highly collectable British jazz vinyl albums, Greek Variations...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: July/2022
Dettmar Quartet: Escales
Francois Laizeau | Guillaume Dettmar | Bernard Cochin | Alexandre Jouravksy
Middle Eastern and Mediterranean music – in the broadest sense – have long had an influence on European musicians, and...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2022
Satoko Fujii/Joe Fonda: Thread of Light
Thread of Light is the fifth collaboration since 2015 between the great Japanese pianist and improviser/composer Satoko Fujii, and the...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2022
Barney Wilen: Zodiac
Barney Wilen | Jacques Thalot | Carl Heinz Berger | Jean-Francois Jenny Clarke
French tenor saxophone player Barney Wilen is now probably best remembered for his work with Miles Davis on the soundtrack...
Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: July/2022
Mark Murphy: Four Classic Albums
Avid’s double-CD concentrates, first, on Murphy’s earliest work, with Decca’s Meet Mark Murphy and Let Yourself Go albums from 1956...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: July/2022
Ray Charles: The Singles Collection 1949-62
If ever a 5-CD set were devised to act as the curtain raiser for the recently-issued True Genius 6-CD set...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: July/2022
Benny Maupin & Adam Rudolph: Symphonic Tone Poem For Brother Yusef
Although Yusef Lateef was a noted pioneer of improvised music that drew extensively on ‘other sounds’ from Africa, Asia and...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2022
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