Category: Album Reviews

September 26, 2021 / Album Reviews - Archive

STATE OF PLAY (ReR) 9/10 Some improvisers paint themselves into sonic corners, where they naively regurgitate their prior much-masticated exploits. Then there’s Jon Rose. Forty years on and Rose still surprises the hell out of me with his sheer audacity; still dumfounds me as if I’m encountering beauty in music…

September 20, 2021 / Album Reviews - Archive

ALL KNAVERY AND COLLUSION (Cadillac) 9/10 Who knows why and how the UK came to spawn so many significant saxophonists in the last 50 years. It might be luck, the weather or the beer. But among a list that includes John Surman, Trevor Watts and Mike Osbourne, Evan Parker occupies…

September 11, 2021 / Album Reviews - Archive

BLISS OF HEAVEN, MUSIC OF THE WORLD (Da Vinci) 7.5/10 SalTango sets the tone: a sweeping luxuriance, not just from the strings, but from the piano, itself. Part of Daniel Rojas’s magic as composer, arranger and pianist is that as well as giving his instrument its rightful place in the…