Reviews
Tom Zé: Todos Os Olhos
The impact of the military regime in Brazil, especially in the latter half of the 1960s, was that of a...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2024
Barney Kessel: The Contemporary Years – Selected Recordings 1953-57
Kessel’s Contemporary albums have often been reissued, what with an earlier series on Original Jazz Classics, and then a pair...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2024
Osmar Milito: Viagem
The impact of the military regime in Brazil, especially in the latter half of the 1960s, was that of a...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2024
Leon Thomas: Full Circle
An acclaimed singer in his own right, Leon Thomas is also synonymous with the music of Pharoah Sanders but it...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2024
Sarah Gillespie: Half Cut
Chris Montague | James Maddren | Sarah Gillespie | Kit Downes | Tom Cawley | Conor Chaplin
Half Cut may not have the political edge of Gillespie’s early collaborative works with Gilad Atzmon. This is a more...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2024
Fire!: Testament
Andreas Werliin | Johan Berthling | Mats Gustafsson
This Swedish trio follow free jazz’s concept of sometimes feral discord designed to touch jazz’s raw roots, sometimes reaching right...
Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: April/2024
Ill Considered: Precipice
Liran Donin | Emre Ramazanoglu | Idris Rahman
There’s a fitting back to basics approach to Precipice, the London trio revelling in a menacing minimalism (underscored by song...
Reviewed by Tom Berry in issue: April/2024
Various Artists: DJ Natoya Presents Funk Tide: Tokyo Jazz Funk from Electric Bird 1978-1987
Ah, it’s guilty pleasure time. Japanese jazz-funk is a many-splendoured thing, with various highways and byways to get pleasantly lost...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: April/2024
Emile Parisien: Let Them Cook
Julien Touéry | Ivan Gélugne | Julien Loutelier | Emile Parisien
The misty, mysterioso atmosphere with which this album starts says much about the Emile Parisien quartet’s evocative ability. A similar...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2024
Album Interview: Lizz Wright: Shadow
Celebrating 20 years since her debut Salt, released on Verve Records in 2003, Shadow represents vocalist and songwriter Lizz Wright’s...
Reviewed by Peter Quinn in issue: April/2024
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