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Article: Album Review

Shabaka Hutchings: Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

Read "Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
April 24, 2024

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ... Since signing with with Impulse! in 2018, Shabaka Hutchings has become best known for his incendiary work on tenor saxophone with Sons Of Kemet, The Comet Is Coming and Shabaka & The Ancestors. Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace marks the start of a gentler, more instrospective phase in his music ...

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Come With Fierce Grace

By Alabaster DePlume

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sibomandi (feat. Falle Nioke); What Can It Take; To That Voice And Say; Greek Honey Slick; Give Me Away; Fall On Flowers; Did you Know (Feat. Momoko Gill); Levels Of Human; Not Even Sobbing; The Best Thing In The World; Naked Like Water (feat. Donna Thompson); Broken Again.

Article: Year in Review

Chris May's Best Albums Of 2023

by Chris May
December 4, 2023

Another great year for recorded jazz. Fourteen of 2023's most special albums are presented here. Eight are new recordings and six are reissues or previously unreleased archive items. Joint Number One Best New Albums Of 2023 Irreversible Entanglements Protect Your Light Impulse! There are two contendors for the slam-dunk ...

Article: Live Review

London Brew At Barbican Centre

by Chris May
November 22, 2023

London Brew Barbican Centre, Main Hall London BrewLondon November 18, 2023 Three years later than originally planned, London Brew made it to the Barbican stage. The star studded ensemble's concert tribute to Miles Davis' Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970) had been intended to mark the fiftieth anniversary of that album. ...

Article: Album Review

Gigi Masin & Greg Foat: Dolphin

by Chris May
July 5, 2023

Dolphin is billed as a collaboration between a jazz musician, British keyboard player Greg Foat, and an ambientist-electronicist, Italian synthesizer player Gigi Masin. Depending on taste, you may find the album mellifluous and relaxing, or vacuous and inconsequential. Unintentionally but irrefutably, Foat and Masin's project highlights the unbridgeable disconnect between jazz and ambient. ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Nubya Garcia & Shabaka Hutchings Meditate Together On Bitches Brew

by Chris May
March 13, 2023

New releases from London doff the hat to two 20th century American masterpieces. Both of the new albums feature tenor saxophonists Nubya Garcia and Shabaka Hutchings, playing alongside each other and kicking up a storm alongside other luminaries of the London scene. The double album London Brew (Concord) is to be released on ...

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Dreamers

By Mark Lockheart

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Dreamers; Weird Weather; Jagdish; King Of The World (Jagdish Reprise); Gangster Rat; Nature V Nurture; Flourescences; Marmalade Skies; Mirage; Sixteen; Dream Weaver; Mingle Tingle.

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GOLD – Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love

By Alabaster DePlume

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: A Gente Acaba; Don't Forget You're Precious; Fucking Let Them; The World Is Mine; The Sound Of My Feet On This Earth Is A Song To Your Spirit; I'm Gonna Say Seven; Do You Know A Human Being When You See One?; Visitors YT15B – Jerusalem, Palestine; I'm Good At Not Crying; Now (Stars Are Lit); Again (feat. Falle Nioke); Mrs Calamari; People – What's The Difference; Visitors XT8B – Oak; Who Is A Fool; I Will Not Be Safe; Visitors YT15 – Krupp Steel Condition Pivot; Broken Like; Now (Pink Triangle, Blue Valley).

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Voices Of Bishara

By Tom Skinner

Label: Brownswood/International Anthem/Nonesuch
Released: 2022
Track listing: Bishara; Red 2; The Journey; The Day After Tomorrow; Voices (Of The Past); Quiet As It’s Kept.

Article: Interview

Tom Skinner: The Son Of Kemet Shines A Light

by Chris May
November 8, 2022

Tom Skinner has been a vital presence on the alternative London jazz scene for close on twenty years. Yet, remarkably, only now in November 2022 is the drummer and composer releasing his first album under his own name. Voices Of Bishara features Skinner alongside four friends and fellow radicals: tenor saxophonists Nubya Garcia and Shabaka Hutchings, ...