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Alice Coltrane: Translinear Light
by Chris May
To say that we've been waiting 26 years, since her last commercial release, Transfiguration, for Alice Coltrane to return to the serene “Eastern" astral jazz which she and Pharoah Sanders developed in the late '60s, is not entirely accurate. That would imply the expectation that such a return would, one day, be made--and since Coltrane withdrew ...
Grand Union Orchestra at LSO St Luke's, London
by Chris May
Billed, irresistibly, as 'World Musicians United In A Journey Through Bhangra, Babylon & The Blues,' these two performances (on 23 & 24 October) by the 19-piece world-jazz Grand Union Orchestra promised much, and delivered it all - including the London premiere of the band's most recent major work, the impassioned raga-based suite If Paradise... , inspired ...
Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet: Change Is
by Chris May
Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet Change Is BGO Records 2004 After being out of catalogue for many years, over twenty of the finest '60s/'70s albums by British jazz masters Don Rendell and Ian Carr are now available again. The duo are key collaborators on the crucially important Integration and ...
Blake Wilner: The Reprieve
by Chris May
An Australian based in London since '00, Blake Wilner is currently touring the UK in support of this, his latest and third album. And if you like either post-Wes Montgomery straight-ahead jazz or fx-spiced funk and rock grooves--or both--then you should check him out, for he cuts it convincingly and infectiously in both those worlds.
Chick Corea Elektric Band: To The Stars
by Chris May
Here's a question. How could an artist with as much talent as Chick Corea--for the pretty and the trippy ( In A Silent Way ) and the flaming and the visceral ( Miles Davis Live At The Fillmore East 1970 ) and, some thirty years later, for the sophisticated and the swinging ( Origin: Live At ...
Neil Ardley/Ian Carr/Don Rendell: Greek Variations & Other Aegean Exercises
by Chris May
Another masterpiece of British jazz reissued on Universal's outstanding Impressed Re-pressed series, where it joins other long unavailable classics such as Amancio D'Silva's Integration , reviewed last month. Recorded in '69, Greek Variations & Other Aegean Exercises is irresistible on two counts. First, for its daringly conceived and brilliantly performed music, inspired by Greek ...
Tony Kofi Quartet: Plays Monk (All Is Know)
by Chris May
First making a name for himself on the British jazz scene in '91 as a member of the high profile young Turks the Jazz Warriors, Tony Kofi went on to guest with a wide variety of artists during the first half of the '90s--from the David Murray Big Band, Jazz Jamaica and Eddie Henderson to Queen ...
Amancio D'Silva: Integration
by Chris May
This is a really thrilling, wonderful and profoundly enjoyable album--a trailblazing and stirring adventure in world music and world jazz recorded long before either term was invented. Made in '69, in London, by Indian guitarist Amancio D'Silva and four of Britain's finest jazzmen, it serves up a chili-rich dish of hard bop, Indian raga, ...
Jessica Williams: Live At Yoshi's Volume One
by Chris May
It's all too easy to let piano trio albums pass you by. The format is so familiar, and the palette so thoroughly explored, that the prospect of adventure and surprise may seem remote. If it's not the Esbjorn Svensson Trio or the Bad Plus, packing their radical hairstyles and digital effects, the music can find itself ...
The Johnny Smith Quintet: Moonlight In Vermont
by Chris May
This may be the greatest “forgotten" jazz album of its time. “Moonlight In Vermont" was originally released as the B side of a single in '52. Its lush, gorgeous, laid back groove--caressed into life by Smith and Stan Getz--made it an immediate radio hit and it was voted Jazz Record Of The Year by Downbeat. Over ...
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