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