Reviews

MŸA

Robinson Khoury

Given the slide trombone’s valveless construction – and notwithstanding its long history in jazz – it’s a wonder it hasn’t...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Orile to Berlin

RAH & The Ruffcats

Infectious grooves, Afro-funk riffs and hip-hop attitude! RAH & The Ruffcats are definitely paying a vibrant and up-to-date tribute to...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Sean Khan Presents…The Modern Jazz and Folk Ensemble

The Modern Jazz and Folk Ensemble

This is an intriguing set in which classic songs from the folk-rock era of the late 60s and early 70s...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Ayıp Olmasın

Yalnayak

The work of communist poet Nâzım Hikmet has served as an inspiration to Turkish musicians throughout the decades – from...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Night Reign

Arooj Aftab

Aftab’s 2021 album Vulture Prince transcended art music obscurity to enjoy blanket broadsheet coverage. It won the Pakistani-American artist a...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Temporal Waves

Temporal Waves

Canadian tabla player Shawn Mativetsky has performed and recorded across many genres for the past 25 years, but this is...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Ishtirak

Ishtirak

This debut album is an improvised masterpiece coming to us out of Beirut, the city that has suffered so many...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Birth & Death

Phil Bancroft & Gyan Singh

Scottish jazz saxophonist-composer Phil Bancroft founded the Myriad Streams label as a grass-roots alternative to the overwhelming choices of platforms...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Neynik (Mirror)

Eléonore Fourniau

Listening to Neynik, if there is one thing that we would not suspect, it is that Eléonore is French… This...

Reviewed in issue August/September/2024

Dala Toni

Ajate

Dala Toni is the third album to be released by the Japanese-Afrobeat fusion collective Ajate. Led since 2009 by Junichiro...

Reviewed in issue July/2024