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On his third outing for the Blue Note label, alto-Sax maestro Immanuel Wilkins serves up his most ambitious record to date. Blues Blood is an expansive suite of tracks woven together by themes of personal and ancestral memory and above [...]
The release of Dance, No One’s Watching sees London quintet Ezra Collective riding the crest of a wave of popularity that started building in 2018. Their last album Where I’m Meant to Be took them to places few thought a [...]
Four years after their debut, Paradise Cinema return with another genre blending project on ‘returning, dream’. This eight-track set features many of the hallmarks of that 2020 album, with dense West-African polyrhythms, cycling drones and a penchant for blending sounds [...]
Among aficionados of contemporary UK jazz, Raffy Bushman is something of a cult figure. He has developed a serious reputation, particularly among other musicians, having been musical director of the influential Unit 31, a precursor to the likes of the [...]
Celebrated Norwegian sax maestro Marius Neset and his compatriot classical pianist Leif Ove Andsnes here unite their skills to create an exciting hybrid, composed music that sounds improvised. That’s most evident on the title track of their album, Who We [...]
Russian-born tenor sax maestro and flautist Art Baden delivers a stirring debut, evoking legends of his instrument such as Wayne Shorter, while finding a distinct voice and improvisational style. On How Much Of It Is Real? Baden is flanked by [...]
Led by Czech-born guitarist Honza Kourimsky, Mahuki is a funky, versatile ensemble whose debut CD recalls everything from Ezra Collective to Balkan and Eastern European folk music. Gratitude is a fusion record that deftly hops between musical influences, from synchronised [...]
British guitarist Ant Law joins forces here with Milan-born Turkish-British singer Brigitte Beraha for a short but emotionally potent set. Law is a stalwart of the UK jazz scene, but this album represents a couple of significant musical departures for [...]
Lakecia Benjamin’s new set, as the name suggests, is a live re-tooling of music from her much lauded, triple Grammy-nominated 2023 album Phoenix (Whirlwind Recordings). Riffing on the music from that set, she weaves in additional influences, brings on guests [...]
On No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin, bassist and band leader Meshell Ndegeocello distils the personal and artistic influence that James Baldwin has had on her into a seventeen-track set that reverberates with the themes of the writer’s [...]
