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This album sees her fronting her current quintet and tends toward personal and general introspection, ref lecting as it does the events of the past couple of years. Aldana never confuses introspection... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
Certainly, Kind of Blue must be measured by musical influence. Ask any number of influential music-makers who have been around, such as Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, and the like, they all agree.... — Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the WorldMore…
Release Date:
16th Oct 2015
Catalogue No: 88875111921
Label: Columbia
Awards:
Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
Penguin Guide to Jazz, Crowned
Rolling Stone, Best Jazz Albums of All Time
The New Yorker, Top 100 Jazz Albums
Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
Though known for her Ella Fitzgerald-esque skill at interpreting songbook standards and French chanson, Salvant has proven herself a literate and nuanced songwriter in her own right. — AllMusic, March 2022, 4 and a half out of 5 starsMore…
There are many fine jazz records coming out of London currently. Source, with its adventurous, kinetic, and sophisticated approach in wedding modern composition, improvisation, and production... — AllMusic, August 2020, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
With Bitches Brew the jazz-rock message was handed down from the mount on tablets of stone. From the title track with Davis, Shorter and Maupin emerging from the matrix of the mix before being... — Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the WorldMore…
Release Date:
20th Nov 2015
Catalogue No: 88875111901
Label: Columbia
Awards:
Grammy Awards, 14th Awards (1971), Best Instrumental Jazz Performance – Large Group or Soloist with Large Group
Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
Rolling Stone, Best Jazz Albums of All Time
The New Yorker, Top 100 Jazz Albums
Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Top 100 (Pre-1980)
1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
Another thing Evans once said is, “I have a reason that I arrive at myself for every note I play.” One would have known that without him saying it, merely by sitting him down at a piano. But... — Downbeat, June 2022More…
Release Date:
17th Jun 2022
Catalogue No: 7226254
Label: Craft Recordings
Length: 58 minutes
Awards:
Downbeat, Editor's Pick, June 2022
Presto Recording of the Week, 17th June 2022
2 Vinyl Records
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Black to the Future is a staggering achievement. Musically and culturally, Sons of Kemet not only holistically conceive of a future, they begin to create one right now. — AllMusic, May 2021, 4 and a half out of 5 starsMore…
Night Train is the epitome of this [new] approach: cool, funky, incredibly concentrated and well thought-through, it hangs together as a perfect modernist tribute to the funky roots of jazz… — Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the WorldMore…
Release Date:
22nd Nov 2013
Catalogue No: 5345889
Label: Verve
Awards:
Jazzwise, 100 Albums That Shook the World
Penguin Guide to Jazz, Core Collection
Presto Music, Classic Jazz Recording
Jazz 100, Top 100 Jazz Albums, Next 100 (Pre-1980)
1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die, Jazz Recommendation
Saving the best until last though ‘Beyond Darkness’ sees Frisell in more garage-y downtown mood with Lloyd’s butterfly-like flute offering deep shade as well as light, and ‘Dorotea’s Studio’... — Jazzwise, July 2022More…
Golden-era jazz runs right through pianist Bill Charlap and it pours from his fingertips…It’s not all standards and the trio’s take on Kenny Burrell’s dapper ‘Your Host’ is a polished gem. Altogether,... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, 5 out of 5 starsMore…