Reviews

Review of Ruth Goller: Skyllumina

Ruth Goller: Skyllumina

Emanuele Maniscalco | Bex Burch | Ruth Goller | Mark Sanders | Max Andrzejewski | Will Glaser | Sebastian Rochford | Tom Skinner | Jim Hart | Frank Rosaly

Editor's Choice

International Anthem

Rating: ★★★★

Italian-born bassist, vocalist and musical adventurer Ruth Goller prompted double takes with her deeply intimate, often unsettling 2021 debut Skylla,...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: April/2024

Review of Trio HLK: Anthropometricks

Trio HLK: Anthropometricks

Varijashree Venugopal | Evelyn Glennie | Ant Law | Natalie Clein | Rich Harrold | Rich Kass

Editor's Choice

Ubuntu

Rating: ★★★★

Anthropometricks applies the same process that Trio HLK employed on their debut Standard Time. Shards of standards are slivered from...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2024

Review of Selma Savolainen: Horror Vacui

Selma Savolainen: Horror Vacui

Okko Saastamoinen | Toomas Keski-Säntti | Max Zenger | Eero Tikkanen | Selma Savolainen | Tomi Nikku

Whirlwind Recordings

Rating: ★★★

The Latin title part-quotes Aristotle’s notion that “nature abhors a vacuum”, a suggestive phrase which helps Finnish singer-composer Selma Savolainen...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2024

Review of Lynne Arriale: Being Human

Lynne Arriale: Being Human

Alon Near | Lynne Arriale | Lukasz Zyta

Challenge Records

Rating: ★★★★

Picking up from her 2022 album The Lights Are Always On, which examined events and reactions around the Covid pandemic,...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2024

Review of Dexter Gordon: Daddy Plays The Horn

Dexter Gordon: Daddy Plays The Horn

Kenny Drew | Dexter Gordon | Larry Marable | Leroy Vinnegar

Bethlehem/Pure Pleasure

Rating: ★★★★★

In a perfect world, had things not gone all possession, penitentiary and parole boards, the 1950s could have been Dexter...

Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: April/2024

Review of Shabaka Hutchings: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

Shabaka Hutchings: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

Nduduzu Makathini | Jason Moran | Carlos Nino | Nasheet Waits | Charles Overton | Anum Lyapo | Laraaji | Marcus Gilmore | Eska | Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

Impulse!

Rating: ★★★★

Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace can be seen and heard as a conceptual rejoinder to Afrikan Culture. That album...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2024

Review of Rufus Reid & Sullivan Fortner: It’s the Nights I Like

Rufus Reid & Sullivan Fortner: It’s the Nights I Like

Sullivan Fortner | Rufus Reid

Editor's Choice

Sunnyside Communications

Rating: ★★★★

A bass and piano duo might not have to play gentle music, but when it does, the range of expression...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: April/2024

Review of Flo and The Murmurs: The Waves

Flo and The Murmurs: The Waves

Marie-Florence Burki | Sofia de Falco | Snejana Prodanova | Elodie Théry | Paula Hsu | Bernardette Köbele

Editor's Choice

La Buissonne

Rating: ★★★★

This bold and unusual debut recording features a string quartet and the pellucid voice of Marie-Florence Burki, who also wrote...

Reviewed by Peter Jones in issue: April/2024

Review of Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert

Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert

Archie Shepp | Cecil McBee | Ed Blackwell | Jimmy Garrison | Pharoah Sanders | Alice Coltrane | Clifford Jarvis | Tulsi | Kumar Kramer

Editor's Choice

Impulse!

Rating: ★★★★

On 21 February 1971, Alice Coltrane took to the stage at New York’s Carnegie Hall as part of a benefit...

Reviewed by Edwin Pouncey in issue: April/2024

Review of The GAB Trio: The GAB Album

The GAB Trio: The GAB Album

Rosie Frater Taylor | Clement Regert | Josie Taylor | Gianluca Corona | Steve Taylor | Bea Asurmendi

Top End Records

Rating: ★★★

This is the debut release by the GAB Trio, an exciting group comprised of Clement Regert and Gianluca Corona on...

Reviewed by Tom Spargo in issue: April/2024

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