Reviews
Charles Lloyd: Trios: Ocean
Anthony Wilson | Gerald Clayton | Charles Lloyd
The joy of Lloyd’s Trios project is that each of the three bands is an on-the-road working band; they’ve not...
Reviewed in issue September/2022
Julian Lage: View With a Room
Bill Frisell | Dave King | Julian Lage | Jorge Roeder
Following closely on the heels of last year's Blue Note debut, Squint, View With A Room offers a change of...
Reviewed in issue September/2022
Ronnie Foster: Reboot
Reboot couldn’t be more aptly named, as it marks Foster’s Blue Note return some fifty years after his debut Two...
Reviewed in issue September/2022
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 in issue July/2022
Charles Lloyd: Trios: Chapel
Bill Frisell | Thomas Morgan | Charles Lloyd
Last year’s Tone Poem album by his Marvels band was always going to be a tough act to follow, being...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Trombone Shorty: Lifted
This new 10-track album from the New Orleans multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Trombone Shorty is his first in five years, the...
Reviewed in issue July/2022
Norah Jones: Come Away With Me: 20th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition
Dan Rieser | Brian Blade | Lee Alexander | Adam Levy | Norah Jones | Jesse Harris
A little over 20 years ago, a 14-track debut album from a relatively unknown singer-songwriter and pianist was released on...
Reviewed in issue June/2022
Tina Brooks: True Blue
Freddie Hubbard | Sam Jones | Art Taylor | Duke Jordan | Tina Brooks
Tina Brooks was the most enigmatic of all the Blue Note recording artists. This album, the only one issued under...
Reviewed in issue February/2022
Makaya McCraven: Deciphering the Message
Jeff Parker | Joel Ross | Makaya McCraven | Marquis Hill | Junius Paul | De’Sean Jones | Greg Ward
Being signed to Blue Note has several advantages. There’s the kudos. The guarantee of quality. Then there’s the access to...
Reviewed in issue December/January/2021/2022
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: First Flight to Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings
Art Blakey | Bobby Timmons | Wayne Shorter | Jymie Merritt | Lee Morgan
Recorded live at the Hibiya Public Hall in Tokyo at the end of Blakey’s first ever tour of Japan, the...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
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