Reviews
Various Artists: Blue Note Re:imagined
Blue Note Re:imagined shines a light on the fertile British scene and connects it to the tradition by inviting 15...
Reviewed in issue November/2020
Bill Frisell: Valentine
This might be their recording debut as a trio, but this threesome has toured hard for the last two years....
Reviewed in issue October/2020
Immanuel Wilkins: Omega
The Blue Note label's talent-scouting skills continue to resurface under current label-boss Don Was. Alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins first came...
Reviewed in issue October/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 in issue April/2016
Gerald Clayton: Happening: Live At The Village Vanguard
Marcus Gilmore | Logan Richardson | Gerald Clayton | Walter Smith III | Joe Sanders
In the same month that this set was recorded at New York's legendary Village Vanguard, West Coast resident Gerald Clayton...
Reviewed in issue August/2020
Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: Just Coolin’
Lee Morgan | Jymie Merritt | Bobby Timmons | Hank Mobley | Art Blakey
Now here's what you call an archival gold nugget!A rediscovered studio recording by the short-lived spring 1959 edition of Blakey's...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
Ambrose Akinmusire: On The Tender Spot Of Every Calloused Moment
Sam Harris | Harish Raghavan | Ambrose Akinmusire | Justin Brown
Putting the extreme vulnerability and complexity of the African-American condition – with possible solace amid the sufferation – into a...
Reviewed in issue July/2020
GoGo Penguin
Rob Turner | Nick Blacka | Chris Illingworth
Much of the beauty of the new London jazz scene has been the music's reunion with black listeners, a replenishment...
Reviewed in issue June/2020
Charles Lloyd: 8: Kindred Spirits Live from the Lobero
Charles Lloyd has been an unacknowledged genius working in plain sight for far too long. Ever since his remarkable series...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
Gregory Porter: All Rise
Troy Miller | Jahmal Nichols | Gregory Porter | Chip Crawford
Following 2017’s heartfelt dedication to his lifelong idol, Nat King Cole & Me, this sixth studio album marks a welcome...
Reviewed in issue May/2020
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