Reviews
Osian Roberts: Bop Viveur
Jeremy Brown | Rob Barron | Matt Fishwick | Osian Roberts
By naming their jointly-founded label as they did, Roberts and the Fishwick brothers made clear their creative intentions and haven’t...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2024
Cassie Kinoshi’s seed.: gratitude
Casssie Kinoshi is staking a claim as one of the most ambitious members of what could be called the 2010s...
Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2024
Soft Machine: The Dew At Dawn/(Slightly) Slightly All The Time
Asaf Srkis | John Etheridge | Fred Thelonious Baker | Theo Travis
The second in My Only Desire's Brit Jazz 45s series – in which contemporary outfits record covers of British jazz...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: April/2024
Art Pepper Quintet: Smack Up
Frank Butler | Jimmy Bond | Pete Jolly | Jack Sheldon | Art Pepper
Craft’s Contemporary reissue programme continues apace, and there is no better place to start than with this Art Pepper release...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2024
Bruford: One of a Kind
Allan Holdsworth | Jeff Berlin | Bill Bruford | Dave Stewart
At what point does Jazz-Rock become Jazz-Rock Fusion or even that word dreaded by all jazz fans, Fusion? This album...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2024
Doncaster Jazz Alumni: 50 Years
Consider this remarkable double-CD as a kind of festschrift (or a sort of ‘commemorative document’ as the dictionary has it)...
Reviewed by Peter Vacher in issue: April/2024
Ulysses Owens Jr and Generation Y: A New Beat
The sharp press rolls, form-marking accents and rhythmic drive that mark Ulysses Owens Jrs’ approach to drumming are steeped in...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: April/2024
Azat Bayazitov: Expectations
Saxophonist Azat Bayazitov’s ambitious third album as a leader showcases his big sound and narrative intelligence on a wide-ranging all-original...
Reviewed by Mike Hobart in issue: April/2024
Fran & Flora: Precious Collection
Francesca Ter-Berg | Flora Curzon | Ursula Russell | Simon Roth
The annual Hidden Notes festival of contemporary and avant garde music sits well with the Cotswold market town of Stroud’s...
Reviewed by Tony Benjamin in issue: April/2024
Melissa Aldana: Echoes of the Inner Prophet
Pablo Menares | Kush Abadey | Melissa Aldana | Lage Lund | Fabian Almazan
The Manhattan-based Chile-born tenor saxophonist-composer Melissa Aldana’s star has been in the ascendant for about a decade now. In 2013...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2024
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