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Franklin Kiermyer: Scatter The Atoms That Remain

Read "Scatter The Atoms That Remain" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
September 16, 2026

Scatter The Atoms That Remain is a harrowing, yet affirming statement from drummer/composer Franklin Kiermyer. With a fine, fit, and hale conglomerate creating alongside him--drummer Ra Kalam Bob Moses, pianists Aaron Parks and Davis Whitfield, trumpeter Keyon Harrold, saxophonists Isaiah Collier and the ever-present Linda Sikhakhane, vocalists Jeff Bhasker, Jasbir Jassi, Melanie Charles and the Temitope Momorebe Gospel Singers, percussionist Carlos Niño, guitar synthesist Nate Mercereaux, and bassists Geraud Portal and Otto Gardner--Scatter The Atoms That Remain carries the free jazz ...

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Ella Fitzgerald: Ella Fitzgerald Live at Falkoner Theatre Copnhagen 1966

Read "Ella Fitzgerald Live at Falkoner Theatre Copnhagen 1966" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
July 2, 2026

The night before Ella Fitzgerald's historic concert with Duke Ellington in Stockholm, she played two concerts in Copenhagen. For Ella Fitzgerald, this was like playing at home because she had an apartment in the city. It was one place where she felt relaxed and it shows in the music. It is Fitzgerald at her most at ease. In fact, she sings more at this concert than she did in Stockholm The tape emanates from a Danmarks Radio broadcast, ...

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Knats: A Great Day In Newcastle

Read "A Great Day In Newcastle" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
March 18, 2026

Led by two lifelong friends from Newcastle, bassist Stan Woodward and drummer King David Ike Elechi, Knats are not the easiest band to pin down to a single genre. So they created their own: “Geordie Jazz," or as they sometimes call it, “Geordie Noir." Drawing on their Tyneside roots (a “Geordie" being a person from the Tyneside area in the North East of England), the name captures their edgy fusion of soaring melody, driving danceable rhythms, rock energy, and spoken-word ...

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Art Blakey And His Jazz Messengers: Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers Strasbourg 82

Read "Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers Strasbourg 82" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
December 6, 2025

This album captures a special concert and a pivotal moment in the history of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. It documents the re--formation of the band following the departure of trumpet player Wynton Marsalisand saxophonist Branford Marsalis. The new recruits--trumpeter Terence Blanchard and alto saxophonist Donald Harrison--were eager to prove their abilities, injecting the band with palpable energy. As was his custom, Blakey, the veteran bandleader, played with the fire and intensity of a musician just starting out. The ...

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Dwight Trible: Ancient Future

Read "Ancient Future" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
March 2, 2023

This adventurous album takes spiritual jazz's premier vocalist out of his comfort zone and into the deep blue yonder. It is a work of extremes, beginning with a storm of avant-rock, funk and electronics and ending by spinning off into abstract space accompanied by a virtual headful of Stanley Owsley's finest. In short, Ancient Future will shave your ass. The album is the follow-up to Trible's outstanding Mothership (Gearbox, 2019), but aside from being on the same ...

Album Review

Binker Golding: Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy

Read "Dream Like A Dogwood Wild Boy" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
May 31, 2022

Acknowledged as one of the top UK saxophonists since the 2010s, Binker Golding established himself as half of the duo Binker and Moses with drummer Moses Boyd. On the same Gearbox Records label, Golding issued his first solo album Abstractions of Reality Past & Incredible Feathers in 2019. A departure from the uninhibited free improvisation and lashing dance rhythms that Binker and Moses are known for, Abstractions... featured a less raw, sophisticated hard bop vibe. Golding's latest, Dream Like a ...

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Binker & Moses: Feeding The Machine

Read "Feeding The Machine" reviewed by Karl Ackermann

by Karl Ackermann
February 11, 2022

After saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd released their debut album, Dem Ones (Gearbox Records, 2015), the duo earned the U.K. Jazz FM Awards' “Best Jazz Act" trophy (2016). Unquestionably the soul of their own machine, Binker and Moses have rarely functioned simply as a duo. By their second Gearbox release, Journey To The Mountain Of Forever (2017), they had added a guest roster including Evan Parker, Sarathy Korwar (Ill Considered), harp, trumpet, and additional percussionist. The two subsequent ...

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Binker & Moses: Feeding The Machine

Read "Feeding The Machine" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
February 4, 2022

Many of us who are fully paid-up intravenous-feed junkies for Binker and Moses would be happy if the semi-free London duo stuck to their well-honed paradigm of acoustic visceralism until The Time Of The Last Persecution. Tenor saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd, however, have been restless for a while, wanting to reconfigure their music. With Feeding The Machine they have done so, and radically, making electronicist Max Luthert an equal partner in this, their fifth full-length album.

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Binker & Moses: Feed Infinite

Read "Feed Infinite" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
December 17, 2021

For a nutritious seasonal feast, forget the Holiday dreck that swamps the jazz world every December and instead get your gnashers round London-based semi-free duo Binker & Moses' single “Feed Infinite." Having released four outstanding albums (two studio and two live) since 2015, tenor saxophonist Binker Golding and drummer Moses Boyd have been looking to tweak their paradigm and “Feed Infinite" maps out a possible new trajectory. The track retains the duo's raw, romping, in-the-moment, acoustic visceralism ...

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Abdullah Ibrahim: Solotude

Read "Solotude" reviewed by Gareth Thompson

by Gareth Thompson
November 19, 2021

Abdullah Ibrahim once told a seminar at his M7 Academy in Cape Town, “The devil lives on the stage. This is where the ego comes out." On the strength of Solotude, recorded live on his eighty-sixth birthday, Ibrahim has crushed such personal demons and now lets angels guide his performing. One takes his point though, given that even the most spiritual music needs some sense of conceit to create and promote it. But this is an artist with nothing left ...