Category: Album Reviews

August 28, 2021 / Album Reviews - Archive

OTHER WORLDS (Greenleaf) 8/10 Having dodged the hideous cover, a couple of oddly lacklustre tracks and finally a slightly weird mix, you start to reap the rewards. The mix, which compromises the music’s visceral edge by pushing the drums (especially the ride cymbal) too far behind the horns and piano,…

August 24, 2021 / Album Reviews - Archive

THE AMERICAN NEGRO (Jazz is Dead/Planet) 8.5/10 Is this the most confronting cover image in recording history? It depicts a lynched African American with composer Adrian Younge’s face: an image that cuts to the core of the treatment of people of colour in the US. Sonically the album traces the…

August 21, 2021 / Album Reviews - Archive

LET IT SHINE (Ear Up) 7.5/10 Jeff Coffin and Helen Gillet can fill in the holes with multi-tracking, or they can let their lines twist about each other like two vines. The Sun Never Says has Coffin’s soprano saxophone and Gillet’s cello pursuing contrapuntal lines akin to twin prayers, while…