Jazz Articles about Lukmil Perez

About Lukmil Perez

Album Review

Nduduzo Makhathini: The Myth We Choose

Read "The Myth We Choose" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
June 17, 2026

With the spirit winds and the sounds of Ladysmith Black Mambazo at his back, pianist/composer/shaman/philosopher Nduduzo Makhathini embarks, throughout the whole of The Myth We Choose, with an inspired, ancestral magic. Chanting, speaking, conjuring. Elegant but never stand-offish, it is the joyful music of a resilient, triumphant, spiritual people. It is the music of a people equidistant to Heaven and Earth. The Myth We Choose is certainly that and never, ever hard to listen to, absorb, and manifest. ...

Album Review

Eva Slongo: Souffle

Read "Souffle" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
July 14, 2022

Improvisation was once a norm for classical musicians, and not just for geniuses such as Bach, Mozart, Liszt or Paganini. That freedom has, to a very large degree, been curtailed by classical music institutions, along with composition. On Souffle, her second album following Inspirations (Unit Records, 2016), Swiss-born, Paris-based violinist Eva Slongo breaks a few metaphorical eggs in bringing the worlds of classical music and jazz together. Of the nine tracks, six are originals, with Slongo's arrangements of Fauré, Beethoven ...