Reviews
The Jazzanians: We Have Waited Too Long
This is an important album that slots into the continuing evolution of South African jazz. Dating back to the 1980s,...
Reviewed in issue August/2024
Ant Law & Brigitte Beraha: Ensconced
Law’s musical palette grows ever wider: Ensconced finds him principally playing steel string acoustic, most rare for him, and collaborating...
Reviewed in issue August/2024
Richard Fairhurst: Inside Out
Dave Whitford | Tim Giles | Richard Fairhurst
Richard Fairhurst has an impressive pedigree. Five years after beginning to learn the piano at the age of 15, he...
Reviewed in issue July/2024
Tim Garland: Moment of Departure
A double CD set that effectively celebrates the return of the Lighthouse Trio for a 20th anniversary tour, and, if...
Reviewed in issue June/2024
Trio HLK: Anthropometricks
Varijashree Venugopal | Evelyn Glennie | Ant Law | Natalie Clein | Rich Harrold | Rich Kass
Anthropometricks applies the same process that Trio HLK employed on their debut Standard Time. Shards of standards are slivered from...
Reviewed 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 in issue April/2024
QOW Trio: The Hold Up
Spike Wells | Eddie Myer | Riley Stone-Lonergan
Spike Wells came to jazz on the 1960s bandstand with Bobby Wellins and Tubby Hayes, Eddie Myer out of autodidactic...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
Jon Lloyd Quartet: Earth Songs
Jon Lloyd | John Law p) | Alex Goodyear | Nick Pini
Commenting on this new release, Ubuntu’s Martin Hummel says he was only recently introduced to Lloyd’s music. Me, too. Hummel...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
Karim Saber: Transmission
Alex Wilson | Karim Saber | Jack Thomas | John Jones | Matt Cook
It was Phronesis founder Jasper Høiby who first brought rising guitarist and composer Karim Saber to the attention of Ubuntu...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
Rob Cope: Gemini
Andy Scott | Paul Clarvis | Liam Noble | Rob Cope
Cope curates The Jazz Podcast and many of the values exhibited therein shine on this debut: generous dialogue, good humour,...
Reviewed in issue February/2024
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