Reviews

Santana IV

Santana

The ground-breaking Afro-Latin rock fusion of Carlos Santana and his band set alight the 1969 Woodstock festival and opened the...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

The Happiest Man in the World

Eric Bibb & North Country Far & Danny Thompson

Eric Bibb refutes the stereotype of the bluesman as bad-ass drunkard who would sell his soul so to play music...

Reviewed in issue July/2016

The Woman at the End of the World

Elza Soares

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

Guinga & Maria João

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

Leyla McCalla

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

MAKU Soundsystem

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

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

Alfredo Rodriguez

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

Got Myself Together (Ten Years Later)

Danny Barnes

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

Cortijo

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