Articles by Chris May
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Etuk Ubong
Africa Today -
Joe Downard
Seven Japanese Tales -
Chris Montague
Warmer Than Blood -
AuB
AuB -
Dark Side Trio
Industrial Song -
Gary Bartz & Maisha
Night Dreamer Direct-To-Disc Sessions -
Dinosaur
To The Earth -
Blackmantis
Devil's Flower -
Let Spin
Steal The Light -
Ed "Tenderlonious" Cawthorne
The Piccolo: Tender Plays Tubby -
Chip Wickham
Blue To Red -
Zeñel
Extreme Sports -
Etuk Ubong
Purpose Of Creation / Etuk's Ritual -
Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey
Stir Crazy -
Rob Luft
Life Is The Dancer -
Pharoah Sanders
Live In Paris (1975) -
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Just Coolin' -
Funky Chemist
Groove Generator -
Tom Green Septet
Tipping Point -
Ted Poor
You Already Know -
Ian Shaw, Iain Ballamy, Jamie Safir
What's New -
Christian McBride
The Movement Revisited -
Robert Glasper
Canvas -
Freddie Hubbard
Open Sesame -
JZ Replacement
Disrespectful -
The New York All-Stars
Live Encounter -
Hailu Mergia
Yene Mircha -
Tina Brooks Quintet
The Complete Recordings -
Alison Rayner Quintet
Short Stories -
Moses Boyd
Dark Matter -
Shabaka & the Ancestors
We Are Sent Here By History -
Rebecca Nash
Peaceful King -
Nick Walters
Active Imagination -
Pulled By Magnets
Rose Golden Doorways -
Byron Wallen
Portrait -
Graham Costello's Strata
Cygnus -
Mezcla
Shoot The Moon -
Marcos Valle
Braziliance! -
Wild Card
Beast From The East -
Village of the Sun feat. Binker & Moses
Village of the Sun / Ted -
Jon Hassell / Farafina
Flash Of The Spirit -
Elliot Galvin
Live In Paris At Fondation Louis Vuitton -
Leon Thomas
Spirits Known And Unknown -
Alice Coltrane
Carnegie Hall '71 -
Yazz Ahmed
Polyhymnia -
Blue Note All Stars
Our Point Of View -
Piotr Damasiewicz & Power Of The Horns Ensemble
Polska -
The Darius Brubeck Quartet
Live In Poland -
Buddy Rich
Just In Time: The Final Recording -
The Calle Stenman Quintet
Mr Sands Is In The Dressing Room
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Published: 2020-06-03Interview
Idris Ackamoor: An Afro-Futurist Odyssey -
Published: 2020-06-01Building a Jazz Library
New Jazz From London: Top 20 Paradigm Shifting Albums -
Published: 2020-05-27Building a Jazz Library
Riverside Records: An Alternative Top Ten -
Published: 2020-05-16Building a Jazz Library
Bob Thiele's Flying Dutchman Records: Ten High Altitude Albums -
Published: 2020-05-14Interview
Laura Jurd: Getting Elemental -
Published: 2020-05-09Building a Jazz Library
Drummers as Bandleaders: An Alternative Top Ten Albums -
Published: 2020-05-05Building a Jazz Library
Afrobeat: An Alternative Top Ten -
Published: 2020-04-30Building a Jazz Library
Hard Bop: An Alternative Top Ten -
Published: 2020-04-27Book Review
Roy DeCarava: The Sound I Saw -
Published: 2020-04-24Building a Jazz Library
AACM: Together We Are Stronger -
Published: 2020-04-21Interview
Jon Hassell: Words with the Shaman -
Published: 2020-04-19Building a Jazz Library
Strata-East: Seizing the Time -
Published: 2020-02-13Interview
Camilla George: Warrior Charge -
Published: 2020-01-28Live Review
Dele Sosimi Afrobeat Orchestra at the Jazz Cafe -
Published: 2019-12-21Book Review
Black Case Volume 1 & 11: Return From Exile -
Published: 2019-12-07
Year in Review
Chris May's Best Releases of 2019 -
Published: 2019-11-30Live Review
Yazz Ahmed & The Guildhall Jazz Orchestra -
Published: 2019-11-25Live Review
Art Ensemble of Chicago 50th Anniversary -
Published: 2019-11-21Film Review
Blue Note Records Beyond The Notes -
Published: 2019-10-05Live Review
Edward Burra, Aaron Douglas: Into The Night: Cabarets and Clubs... -
Published: 2019-09-15Live Review
Respect to Aretha at Barbican Hall -
Published: 2019-08-19Live Review
Dwight Trible at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club -
Published: 2019-07-28Live Review
Mark Kavuma: Celebrating Lee Krasner: Living Colour &... -
Published: 2019-07-25Profile
We Out Here: The Fast-Forward Evolution of British Jazz -
Published: 2019-07-12Live Review
Steve Williamson & Guildhall Jazz Orchestra: Celebrating... -
Published: 2019-05-28Live Review
Binker Golding Quartet and Denys Baptiste Quartet at the London... -
Published: 2019-05-15Live Review
Electronic Explorations in Afro-Cuban and UK Jazz -
Published: 2018-12-16Year in Review
Chris May's Best Releases of 2018 -
Published: 2018-09-15Live Review
Binker & Moses At London's Jazz Cafe -
Published: 2013-12-22
Afrobeat Diaries
Felabration 2013 -
Published: 2013-05-29
Afrobeat Diaries
Saluting the Black President: London, UK, May 17, 2013 -
Published: 2013-02-14Afrobeat Diaries
EMEFE: Good Future -
Published: 2013-01-28Live Review
Bassekou Kouyate / Tamikrest / Sidi Toure: London, January 26,... -
Published: 2013-01-14African Jazz
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Jama Ko -
Published: 2012-12-20Year in Review
Chris May's Best Releases of 2012 -
Published: 2012-12-16Year in Review
Chris May's Best Jazz Books of 2012 -
Published: 2012-10-24Catching Up With
Stan Sulzmann: Neon Quartet -
Published: 2012-08-08Book Review
Bob Willoughby: Jazz - Body and Soul -
Published: 2012-07-30
Book Review
Funny Valentine - The Story of Chet Baker -
Published: 2012-06-19Catching Up With
Christian Scott: Shining a Light -
Published: 2012-06-16Afrobeat Diaries
Criolo: Nó Na Orelha -
Published: 2012-05-18Afrobeat Diaries
Part 25 - Ben Zabo: It's a Blinder - But It's Not Afrobeat -
Published: 2012-04-01Profile
Jazz Musicians with Eccentricities -
Published: 2012-03-25Book Review
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise - Listening To The Twentieth... -
Published: 2012-03-10Book Review
John Caps: Henry Mancini - Reinventing Film Music -
Published: 2012-02-03African Jazz
Senegal’s Orchestra Baobab and Guinea’s Authenticite... -
Published: 2012-01-31Catching Up With
Ahmad Jamal -
Published: 2012-01-06Book Review
David Kastin: Nica’s Dream - The Life and Legend of the Jazz... -
Published: 2011-12-26Reassessing
Charles Lloyd Quartet: Love-In -
Published: 2011-12-23Just For Fun
Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: Jazz Aphorisms
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Building a Jazz Library
Prestige Records: An Alternative Top 20 Albums
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Album Review
Jon Hassell: Seeing Through Sound: Pentimento Volume Two
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Album Review
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids: Shaman!
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Album Review
Fela Ransome Kuti & His Highlife Rakers: Fela's First
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Album Review
Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela: Rejoice
Publish Day: 12
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Album Review
Bloto: Erozje
Publish Day: 14
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Album Review
Muriel Grossmann: Reverence
Publish Day: 16
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Album Review
Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes: Expansions
Publish Day: 17
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Album Review
Thiago Nassif: Mente
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Published: 2008-11-11Album Review
Stan Getz: Stan Getz: The Bossa Nova Albums -
Published: 2010-08-20Extended Analysis
Various Artists: Africa: 50 Years of Music - 50 Years of Independence -
Published: 2010-03-29Extended Analysis
Ray Charles: Ray Charles: Original Album Series -
Published: 2009-10-25African Jazz
Franco & Le TPOK Jazz: Francophonic 2: Africa's Greatest: A Retrospective: Vol.2: 1980 - 1989 -
Published: 2010-06-01African Jazz
Senegal's Etoile de Dakar featuring Youssou N'Dour and south London's Yaaba Funk -
Published: 2010-12-05African Jazz
Compilations: Doing The Right Thing -
Published: 2009-05-25African Jazz
Tony Allen: Secret Agent -
Published: 2018-02-21Album Review
Sons of Kemet: Your Queen Is A Reptile -
Published: 2011-12-15Reassessing
Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out -
Published: 2009-04-09African Jazz
The Rail Band: Belle Epoque Vol. 3 - Dioba -
Published: 2007-10-08Album Review
Max Roach: We Insist! Freedom Now Suite -
Published: 2012-06-11
Extended Analysis
Christian Scott: Christian Scott: aTunde Adjuah -
Published: 2019-07-25
Profile
We Out Here: The Fast-Forward Evolution of British Jazz -
Published: 2009-10-16Extended Analysis
John Coltrane: John Coltrane: Side Steps -
Published: 2011-03-12Afrobeat Diaries
Part 21 - Final Fela Kuti Masterpieces Reissued -
Published: 2010-01-25Album Review
Christian Scott: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow -
Published: 2008-07-04Extended Analysis
Grant Green: Grant Green: Idle Moments -
Published: 2009-01-07African Jazz
Franco and Le TPOK Jazz: Francophonic - Africa's Greatest - A Retrospective - Vol. 1 1953 - 1980 -
Published: 2009-01-05Album Review
Joshua Redman: Compass -
Published: 2011-07-09Afrobeat Diaries
Part 24 - Ghariokwu Lemi: Fela Kuti And Me -
Published: 2011-12-08Reassessing
Antonio Carlos Jobim: Wave -
Published: 2009-10-01Album Review
Various Artists: Rocksteady: The Roots Of Reggae -
Published: 2018-02-20Album Review
Yazz Ahmed: La Saboteuse -
Published: 2010-09-29African Jazz
The Majestic “Return” of King Sunny Ade & His African Beats -
Published: 2009-09-04Afrobeat Diaries
Part 2 - Fela Anikulapo Kuti and the sack of Kalakuta Republic -
Published: 2009-01-21Extended Analysis
John Coltrane: John Coltrane: The Impulse! Albums - Volume Three -
Published: 2010-11-30Album Review
Charlie Haden Quartet West: Sophisticated Ladies -
Published: 2009-08-25Afrobeat Diaries
Part 1 - Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70: Alagbon Close / Why Black Man Dey Suffer -
Published: 2005-08-15Interview
Ingrid Laubrock: Playing with the Future -
Published: 2008-07-01Extended Analysis
Pharoah Sanders: Pharoah Sanders: Tauhid -
Published: 2010-12-22Record Label Profile
Storyville Records: A Treasure Trove of Swinging Jazz -
Published: 2007-09-28Extended Analysis
Getatchew Mekurya: Getatchew Mekurya: Negus Of Ethiopian Sax -
Published: 2011-10-27Multiple Reviews
Alice Coltrane: The Flowering of Astral Jazz -
Published: 2018-03-28Album Review
Toshio Matsuura Group: Loveplaydance: 8 Scenes From The Floor -
Published: 2018-04-03
Album Review
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids: An Angel Fell -
Published: 2011-12-23
Just For Fun
Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: Jazz Aphorisms -
Published: 2008-10-25Album Review
Wes Montgomery: The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery -
Published: 2018-02-24Album Review
Various Artists: We Out Here -
Published: 2012-04-01
Profile
Jazz Musicians with Eccentricities -
Published: 2010-01-28African Jazz
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: I Speak Fula -
Published: 2007-08-16Album Review
John Coltrane: My Favorite Things: Coltrane Live At Newport -
Published: 2012-01-31Extended Analysis
Ahmad Jamal: Ahmad Jamal: Blue Moon -
Published: 2007-04-18Extended Analysis
Kenny Clarke: Kenny Clarke: Klook's The Man -
Published: 2005-03-24Album Review
Polar Bear: Held On The Tips Of Fingers -
Published: 2018-03-19Album Review
Sun Ra: Exotica -
Published: 2009-02-28African Jazz
Oumou Sangare: A New Masterpiece from Mali -
Published: 2013-01-14
African Jazz
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Jama Ko -
Published: 2010-07-13Interview
Nat Birchall: Alone In The Music -
Published: 2018-10-22Album Review
Charles Mingus: Jazz In Detroit / Strata Concert Gallery / 46 Selden -
Published: 2012-02-03
African Jazz
Senegal’s Orchestra Baobab and Guinea’s Authenticite Movement Show Their Roots
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