Reviews
Roy Ayers: Jazz Is Dead 02
Über-producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad put A Tribe Called Quest in the hip-hop hall of fame by way of extensive beat-mining...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2020
Christian Lillinger: Open Form for Society Live
Mostly recorded Live at JazzFest Berlin in 2019, the German drummer Lillinger's international 10-piece (including British cellist Lucy Railton and...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2020
BukkyLeo: Evolution
Still going strong today, British-Nigerian saxophonist Bukky Leo was our own Pharoah Sanders in the late 1980s. His breakout album...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2016
Michael Landau: Liquid Quartet Live
Such is Landau's reputation as an A-list side and I session man, it's easy to overlook that he's an old...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2020
Adam Nussbaum: Lead Belly Reimagined
Drummer Adam Nussbaum claims an affinity to the legendary Lead Belly dating back to age five. And indeed there's something...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: September/2020
Pasquale Grasso: Solo Bud Powell
It should come as no surprise that the Italian-born, New York-based guitarist Pasquale Grasso should devote an entire solo album...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: September/2020
Cat Toren's Human Kind: Scintillating Beauty
You don't have to be high to appreciate this Brooklyn-based keyboardist-composer's band's salute to the socially-conscious eastmeets-west jazz of the...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2020
Jo Stafford: Four Classic Albums
Jo Stafford had been a singer with the close harmony Pied Pipers, when she was plucked from their ranks for...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: February/2020
Clifford Jordan: These Are My Roots: Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly
First released on Atlantic Records in 1965, in some senses this is an album decades ahead of its time. Indeed,...
Reviewed by Simon Spillett in issue: September/2020
Ralph Peterson & The Messenger Legacy: Onward and Upward
This step-change release for Ralph Peterson, the 58 year-old Art Blakey-inspired drummer and bandleader, brings together no less than 14...
Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: September/2020
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