Reviews
Donald Byrd: Four Classic Albums
The title of the first of the four Blue Note albums here is apt, as Off To The Races is...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2023
Dan Weiss: Dedication
Dan Weiss | Jacob Sacks | Thomas Morgan
Thinking from the groove up, and prioritising how improvisers might more often space and stretch melodies against beats more than...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: February/2023
Anat Cohen: Quartetinho
Tal Mashiach | James Shipp | Vitor Gonçalves | Anat Cohen
With a shared love of the Brazilian songbook serving as its aesthetic lodestar, this hugely enjoyable album from Anat Cohen's...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: February/2023
Monty Alexander: The Montreux Years
Opening with a stunning 1995 solo performance of Alexander's original ‘The Serpent’, there's immediately no doubt that this latest Montreux...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2023
Courtney Pine: Spirituality
Jenny Adejayan | Natalie Taylor | Zoe Rahman | Mira Glenn | Elaine Blair | Courtney Pine
Courtney's Pine's Spirituality comes at us like a soul-cleanse, a reminder to take stock and practice gratitude.Supported in part by...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: February/2023
Georg Gräwe Quintet: New Movements
Georg Gräwe | Harald Dau | Horst Grabosch | Hans Schneider | Achim Krämer
Born in 1956, pianist Georg Gräwe was part of the second generation of German improvisers who came up in the...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: February/2023
Chris Biscoe: Music Is: Chris Biscoe Plays Mike Westbrook
Mike Outram | Dave Whitford | Jon Scott | Kate Williams | Chris Biscoe
The only criticism you can have of Chris Biscoe's 50-plus years in jazz is why he's recorded so few projects...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: February/2023
Ben LaMar Gay: Certain Reveries
Tommaso Moretti | Ben LaMar Gay
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
Xhosa Cole: Ibeji
Difficult second album syndrome? Not for Xhosa Cole, the multi-award-winning Birmingham-based saxophonist whose bold artistic vision was given wings on...
Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: February/2023
Dave Liebman: Trust and Honesty
John Herbert | Ben Monder | Dave Liebman
If Dave Liebman is not the most recorded artist in jazz, then he must be pretty close. The liner notes...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: February/2023
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