Reviews
Josephine Davies’ Satori: Weatherwards
James Maddren | Dave Whitford | Josephine Davies | Alcyona Mick
Following 2020’s Buddhism-themed How Can We Wake? this fourth album from Josephine Davies’ Satori takes the saxophonist back to her...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: November/2024
OPA: Goldenwings
Ringo Thielmann | George Fattoruso | Airto | Hermeto Pascoal | Hugo Fattoruso | David Amaro
It would be glib to tag OPA as ‘the Uruguyan Azymuth’, but the brothers Fattoruso, keyboardist Hugo and drummer George,...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: November/2024
Anat Cohen: Bloom
Vitor Gonçalves | Tal Masiach | Anat Cohen | James Shipp
Cohen’s band Quartetinho (Portuguese for ‘little quartet’) already has one album to its name, and many years’ experience of the...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: November/2024
Claire Martin: Almost In Your Arms
Almost In Your Arms sees Martin reuniting with the all-Swedish trio featured on her superb 2019 album, Believin’ It, augmented...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: November/2024
Mark Cherrie Quartet: Any Anxious Colour
"The steel pan of course has no particular history in jazz music itself, unlike many other instruments,” explains bandleader and...
Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2024
Kurtis Li: In Bloom
London-based guitarist and Berklee alumnus Kurtis Li possesses a formidable array of credentials, yet the mood of his debut album...
Reviewed by Gail Tasker in issue: October/2024
Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii: Aloft
For their ninth album together, these two prolific Japanese jazz giants continue their almost telepathic musical rapport while also providing...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: October/2024
Franco Ambrosetti: Sweet Caress
Scott Colley | John Scofield | Franco Ambrosetti | Sarah Caswell | Alan Broadbent | Peter Erskine
An important figure in European jazz since the 1960s, Ambosetti was a founding member (and later associate director) of fellow...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2024
Phil Haynes’ 4 Horns & What?: The Complete American Recordings
Not a name that immediately springs to mind when recalling the 1980s-to-early-90s New York Downtown scene, drummer-percussionist-composer Phil Haynes was...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: October/2024
Arashi with Takeo Moriyama: Tokuzo
Paal Nilssen-Love | Takeo Moriyama | Johan Berthling | Akira Sakata
The Scandinavian rhythm section of double bassist Johan Berthling and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love first hooked up with veteran fire-breathing Japanese...
Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: October/2024
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