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Review of The Messthetics And James Brandon Lewis

The Messthetics And James Brandon Lewis

Brendan Canty | Anthony Pirog | Joe Lally | James Brandon Lewis

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Rating: ★★★

The Messthetics get maximum points for a great name, but that's not all they have in their favour. Drummer Brendan...

Reviewed in issue June/2024

Review of Shabaka Hutchings: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

Shabaka Hutchings: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

Nduduzu Makathini | Jason Moran | Carlos Nino | Nasheet Waits | Charles Overton | Anum Lyapo | Laraaji | Marcus Gilmore | Eska | Miguel Atwood-Ferguson

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Rating: ★★★★

Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace can be seen and heard as a conceptual rejoinder to Afrikan Culture. That album...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Review of Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert

Alice Coltrane: The Carnegie Hall Concert

Archie Shepp | Cecil McBee | Ed Blackwell | Jimmy Garrison | Pharoah Sanders | Alice Coltrane | Clifford Jarvis | Tulsi | Kumar Kramer

Editor's Choice

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Rating: ★★★★

On 21 February 1971, Alice Coltrane took to the stage at New York’s Carnegie Hall as part of a benefit...

Reviewed in issue April/2024

Review of John Coltrane/Eric Dolphy: Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy

John Coltrane/Eric Dolphy: Evenings at the Village Gate: John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy

John Coltrane | Reggie Workman | Eric Dolphy | McCoy Tyner | Elvin Jones

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Rating: ★★★★

There have been some fascinating, and absorbing, discoveries of previously unissued Coltrane material culled from a variety of sources, but...

Reviewed in issue August/2023

Review of John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle

John Coltrane: A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle

Pharoah Sanders | Donald ‘Rafael’ Garrett | John Coltrane | Jimmy Garrison | Carlos Ward | McCoy Tyner | Elvin Jones

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Rating: ★★★★★

Three years ago the release of Both Directions At Once offered up something genuinely new; unearthed tapes of Coltrane playing...

Reviewed in issue November/2021

Review of Brandee Younger: Somewhere Different

Brandee Younger: Somewhere Different

Allan Mednard | Marcus Gilmore | Dezron Douglas | Rashaan Carter | Ron Carter | Brandee Younger | Chelsea Baratz | Maurice Brown | Anne Drummond

Editor's Choice

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Rating: ★★★★

From the inventive comping in the striking album opener ‘Reclamation’ to the heavy ostinato of the final track, ‘Tickled Pink’,...

Reviewed in issue October/2021

Review of Alice Coltrane: Kirtan: Turiya Sings

Alice Coltrane: Kirtan: Turiya Sings

Alice Coltrane

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Rating: ★★★★

In the past few years, the full extent of Alice Coltrane's talents has been coming into sharper focus, and this...

Reviewed in issue August/2021

Review of Sons of Kemet: Black to the Future

Sons of Kemet: Black to the Future

Shabaka Hutchings

Editor's Choice

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Rating: ★★★★

The fourth LP by the Shabaka Hutchings-led ‘super-quartet’ Sons of Kemet comes with a mission statement reinforcing the politics at...

Reviewed in issue June/2021

Review of Michael Brecker

Michael Brecker

Michael Brecker | Jack DeJohnette | Charlie Haden | Kenny Kirkland | Pat Metheny

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Although widely recognised as the most influential saxophonist since John Coltrane, and having already appeared on some 700 albums by...

Reviewed in issue February/2021

Review of Thelonious Monk: Palo Alto

Thelonious Monk: Palo Alto

Larry Gales | Thelonious Monk | Charlie Rouse | Ben Riley

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Rating: ★★★★

Yet another surprise in the now-annual parade of previously unreleased gems from the big names of the past, this is...

Reviewed in issue August/2020

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