Binker Golding: Abstractions Of Reality Past & Incredible Feathers

Daniel Casimir | Sam Jones | Binker Golding | Joe Armon-Jones

Saxophonist Golding shows his versatility on an enjoyable set. This is a markedly different proposition to the duos formed with...

Reviewed in issue November/2019

Abdullah Ibrahim: The Balance

Alec Dankworth | Cleave Guyton | Andrae Murchison | Abdullah Ibrahim | Lance Bryant | Adam Glasser | Noah Jackson | Marshall McDonald | Will Terrill

If your back catalogue with Ekaya includes such essential albums as The Mountain and Water From An Ancient Well, then...

Reviewed in issue August/2019

Dwight Trible: Mothership

Mark de Clive-Lowe | Dwight Trible | Ramses Rodriguez | John B. Williams | Kamasi Washington

LA-based vocalist Dwight Trible's career traverses collaborations with Kenny Garrett, Charles Lloyd and Pharoah Sanders on the one hand, J...

Reviewed in issue May/2019

Album Interview: Theon Cross: Fyah

Nubya Garcia | Nathaniel Cross | Theon Cross | Tim Doyle | Moses Boyd | Artie Zaitz | Wayne Francis

Having built momentum with EPs, gigs and a gathering media storm, many of London’s new jazz generation are finally making...

Reviewed in issue April/2019

Butcher Brown: Camden Session

Marcus Tenney | Devonne Harris | Morgan Burrs | Corey Fonville | Andrew Randazzo

This Richmond, Virginia band play a kind of hushed fusion. Though the inspiration of the likes of Weather Report and...

Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Thelonious Monk: Mønk

Thelonious Monk | John Ore | Frankie Dunlop | Charlie Rouse

Here's a 42-minute concert set you've never heard before, unless you're a collector circulating Monk bootlegs. One of at least...

Reviewed in issue October/2018

Album Interview: Binker and Moses: Alive In The East?

Yussef Dayes | Tori Handsley | Byron Walle | Moses Boyd | Evan Parker | Binker Golding

The second disc of last year's Journey To The Mountain Of Forever album by jazz-rooted, but generically free-thinking, young MOBO...

Reviewed in issue August/2018

Ana Silver: Oracles

The London-based contemporary alt.folk singer-songwriter comes over like Kate Bush without that siren's pop sensibilities, favouring a cathartic tone and...

Reviewed in issue August/2018

Dexter Gordon: Fried Bananas

Henk Haverhoek | Eric Ineke | Dexter Gordon | Rein De Graaff

Dexter Gordon is one of those rare players in jazz where almost everything he recorded is of great interest today...

Reviewed in issue February/2017

Binker And Moses: Dem Ones

Moses Boyd | Binker Golding

Noted for their work with the likes of Zara McFarlane, Peter Edwards and Denys Baptiste among others, Golding and Boyd...

Reviewed in issue June/2015