Reviews
OK OK OK
Having released 60 albums since 1967, Afro-Brazilian legend Gilberto Gil shows no sign of slowing down with his latest project,...
Reviewed by Julia Baker in issue: March/2019
OK World
The clusters of sparse piano notes that open this disc suggest a contemplative acoustic music that might confound fans of...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: June/2014
We’re OK. But We’re Lost Anyway
Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp
Is this title an exercise in assured bravado and chutzpah for this Geneva-based band’s fifth album, or is it a...
Reviewed by Max Reinhardt in issue: Aug/Sep/2021
African Jazz invites OK Jazz
There were two main protagonists in the evolution of Congolese popular music in the 1960s: Joseph Kabasele (alias Grand Kallé),...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: August/2025
Horn OK Please: Roadto Bollywood
Bollywood is so closely linked to the song and dance culture of South Asia that it almost ends up engulfing...
Reviewed by Rafay Mahmood in issue: June/2018
Roots of OK Jazz: Congo Classics 1955-56
This is a reissue of a collection originally released in 1993 as part of the excellent ‘Zaire Classics’ series. Since...
Reviewed by Martin Sinnock in issue: October/2010
Nickel Creek/This Side/Why Should the Fire Die?
When Nickel Creek formed in 1989, siblings Sara and Sean Watkins and Chris Thile were not yet 13 years old....
Reviewed by Doug Deloach in issue: December/2020
Roll Columbia: Woody Guthrie's 26 Northwest Songs
In these pages last year (#120) I reviewed Greg Vandy's book 26 Songs in 30 Days: Woody Guthrie's Columbia River...
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: June/2017
Man No Die
Bola Johnson has been one of the finds in the recent plethora of re c ent Nigerian highlife/Afro-funk archive reissues....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: Jan/Feb/2011
You Will Never Die!
Clarinettist Yom's second project with his band The Wonder Rabbis comes seven years after the first one. In between, he's...
Reviewed by Asher Breuer-Weil in issue: Jan/Feb/2019
