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Ruth Goller: Below My Skin

by Chris May
February 7, 2024

Since the mid noughties, Italian-born, British-based bassist Ruth Goller has been one of the backline-going-on-frontline heroes of British jazz, starting with her work with Acoustic Ladyland and Melt Yourself Down and continuing through an honour roll of convention-defying bands. “Below My Skin," on which Goller is joined by drummer Tom Skinner (Sons Of Kemet, The Smile), ...

Article: Album Review

Champagne Dub: Rainbow

by Chris May
January 30, 2024

Rainbow is not a jazz album, not in a million light years, but it is a blast, and the two core members of Champagne Dub are British jazz-and-beyond musicians who have made careers out of going off piste. Good reasons for lending an ear. The renegade twosome are Max Hallett (aka Betamax), who ...

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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: 72 Jazz Thrillers

The Most Exciting Jazz Albums since 1969: 2020-2023

by Robert Middleton
December 26, 2023

In the 72 Jazz Thrillers series we've gone from 1969 to 2023, an expansive 54-year journey. From the jazz vanguard of Bitches Brew to the dynamic movie soundtrack of Roy's World, from the sublime guitar of Bill Frisell to the singing guitar of Charlie Ballantine, the thing that all these jazz albums have in common is ...

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: 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 ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Favorite Jazz of 2022

by Jerome Wilson
January 4, 2023

This show looks back at 2022 by playing my favorite jazz recordings of the past year. Musicians featured include Nate Wooley (with his group Columbia Icefield), Hedvig Mollestad, Tyshawn Sorey, Wayne Shorter, and Bill Frisell. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of ...

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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.

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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).