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The Latin-goes-electro group’s attention to detail is to be admired.
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An impressively assured change of gear from some serious fast-laners in British jazz
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There is an episodic but very coherent quality to Melford’s compositions.
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Bates’s ‘Bird’ music is alternately seductive and sardonic, dreamy and dangerous.
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The pianist’s latest is a concept album with an odyssey-like subtext.
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Molloy handles the source material with impressive authority here.
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Has a vivacious, danceable slant that underscores its elaborate architecture.
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This is a portrait of an artist excitingly reaching creative maturity.
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A bittersweet and often beautiful saxophone-piano set.
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Their absence has left an unfilled gap that heightens the nostalgia here.
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The soul album of the year for its challenge to the genre itself.
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More time and less hype would serve Simcock’s cause well.
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The sound of a musician rapidly nearing a creative peak.
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A great soul voice in need of adequate record label investment.
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Unveils a singer with her own sound, something that often takes many years to achieve.
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Confirms Herman as a definite contender in the piano trio arena.
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A singular voice that taps all the cultures from which it is born.
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She fully embraces her position on the cusp of African and European cultures.
