Reviews
Bill Frisell: Orchestras
Bill Frisell has been conjuring an inspired solo soundscape for electric guitar for so long that the world has grown...
Reviewed in issue May/2024
A requiem for Ron: Ron Miles: Old Main Chapel
Bill Frisell | Brian Blade | Ron Miles
It’s hard to process that Ron Miles is no longer with us. In our present world of disharmony, his generous...
Reviewed in issue June/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 in issue April/2024
Julian Lage: Speak To Me
Dave King | Jorge Roeder | Julian Lage | Kris Davis | Levon Henry | Patrick Warren
Over the years since he was discovered as a 12 year-old prodigy, gigs with Gary Burton, John Zorn and Charles...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
Joel Ross: nublues
Jeremy Dutton | Jeremy Corren | Gabrielle Garo | Immanuel Wilkins | Kanoa Mendenhall | Joel Ross
Young vibraphone star Joel Ross went back to an unfinished music degree at New York's New School in 2020, when...
Reviewed in issue March/2024
Ethan Iverson: Technically Acceptable
Ethan Iverson | Kush Abadey | Rob Schwimmer | Thomas Morgan | Vinnie Sperrazza | Simón Willson
The pianist-composer Ethan Iverson, since parting company with The Bad Plus in 2017, has been maintaining a steady profile with...
Reviewed in issue February/2024
Cautious Clay: Karpeh
Ohio-born multi-instrumentalist Joshua Karpeh – aka Cautious Clay (yes, it’s a play on Muhammed Ali’s birth name) – is perhaps...
Reviewed in issue December/January/2023/2024
Joshua Redman: where are we
The world-class jazz saxophonist-composer Joshua Redman’s debut for the Blue Note label also turns out to be his first ever...
Reviewed in issue November/2023
Harold López-Nussa: Timba a la Americana
Cuban pianist and composer Harold Lopez-Nussa has seen his star rise at dizzying, swinging speed since his feature on Gilles...
Reviewed in issue September/2023
Johnathan Blake: Passage
Johnathan Blake | Immanuel Wilkins | Dezron Douglas | David Virelles | Joel Ross
Running through this varied and absorbing record are Johnathan Blake's reflections on and tributes to his late father, the violinist...
Reviewed in issue September/2023
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