Reviews
Coleman Hawkins: Four Classic Albums
Reissues in this series either catch an artist at a crucial developmental phase, or when they already have it all...
Reviewed by Brian Priestley in issue: June/2025
Natsuki Tamura/Satoko Fujii/Ramón López: Yama Kawa Umi
Natsuki Tamura | Satoko Fujii | Ramón López
Satoko Fujjii – recently and memorably described by Cadence magazine as “the Ellington of free jazz” – is a woman...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2025
Eric Scott Reed: Out Late
Joe Farnsworth | Peter Washington | Eric Alexander | Nicholas Payton | Eric Scott Reed
For this album, pianist and composer Reed has drawn together musicians he has worked with over the years, but who...
Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: June/2025
Pentangle: The Albums 1968-1972
Danny Thompson | Bert Jansch | John Renbourn | Terry Cox | Jacqui McShee
There are many things I adore about Britain, but its folk music is not among them: English folk is too...
Reviewed by Kevin Whitlock in issue: June/2025
The Quantum Blues Project: Quantum Blues
Will Calhoun | Jamaaladeen Tacuma | Tisziji Munoz | Paul Shaffer
Munoz’s distorted guitar blurts out with a Coltrane-like invocation to set the tone for this spectacular if sprawling session; this...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2025
Julian Nicholas and Emil Viklicky: Food of Love
Robert Balzar | Dave Wickins | Julian Nicholas | Emil Viklicky
The big moral here is, get tested for prostate cancer. Now. Food of Love is dedicated to the memory of...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2025
Donovan Haffner: Alleviate
Harry Ling | Harry Pearce | Jay Verma | Donovan Haffner | Francisco Garcia de Paredes
Donovan Haffner is the latest in a long line of young lions to emerge from the Tomorrow’s Warriors school, demonstrating...
Reviewed by Eddie Myer in issue: June/2025
Mark Ribot: Map of a Blue City
A fizzing catherine wheel of guitar talent, either in his own bands like the raging Ceramic Dogs or in cahoots...
Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2025
Christoph Irniger Pilgrim: Human Intelligence – Live
Christoph Irniger | Raffaele Bossard | Dave Gisler | Stefan Aeby | Michael Stulz
The quintet Pilgrim, formed by the now 45-year-old Swiss saxophonist and composer Christoph Irniger back in 2009, is an exploratory,...
Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2025
Enrico Pieranunzi Trio: Suite for Sienna: Live 1991
Enrico Pieranunzi | Francesco Petreni | Enzo Pietropaoli
There is surely nothing more exhilarating, or absorbing, than maestro Enrico Pieranunzi getting in the zone in front of a...
Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: June/2025
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