Reviews
The Woman at the End of the World
Elza Soares has been one of Brazil's most controversial samba singers ever since her career began in the late 1950s,...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Mar Afora
Over the last three decades, Portuguese jazz singer (and former black-belt aikido athlete) Maria João, and Brazilian singer-songwriter Guinga have...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
A Day for the Hunter, a Day for the Prey
A former touring member of award-winning African-American string band Carolina Chocolate Drops, cellist Leyla McCalla made her solo debut with...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Mezcla
This mezcla (mix) of Colombian energy and New York savvy promises much, but delivers even more. To their native Afro-Colombian...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Dori Freeman
Dori Freeman is a singer-songwriter from the town of Galax, Virginia – a tiny place in the Appalachian mountains and...
Reviewed in issue July/2016
Tocororo
This young Cuban jazz pianist's third album starts with a radical reinvention of the old Compay Segundo favourite, ‘Chan Chan’:...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
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Got Myself Together (Ten Years Later)
An interesting concept is this latest album by singer-songwriter and banjo-picker extraordinaire Edward D (for Danny) Barnes. A Texas native,...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
The Ansonia Years 1969-71
Arguably the star of Vampisoul's collection Saoco!, percussionist Rafael Cortijo is now heard here on his own compilation. The album...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Getz/Gilberto ’76
When João Gilberto and Tom Jobim slowed down samba and gave birth to bossa nova, a languorous song form that...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
Tales of Mozambique
Count Ossie & the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari
As curators of the excellent 100% Dynamite series, Soul Jazz introduced many to the lesser-known wonders of Jamaican music. On...
Reviewed in issue June/2016
