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Review of Dom Salvador JID024

Dom Salvador JID024

Dom Salvador, Adrian Younge & Ali Shaheed Muhammed

Jazz is Dead

Rating: ★★★

After collaborating with Brazilian notables like Marcos Valle, João Donato and Azymuth, the workaholic studio partners, Younge & Muhammed, have...

Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: September/2025

Review of Two Moons

Two Moons

Bei Bei | Bei Bei & Shawn Lee

Bei Bei Time Productions

Rating: ★★★★★★★

Known for her numerous appearances on film and video game soundtracks (notably Mulan, Kung Fu Panda 4 and Civilization VII),...

Reviewed by Charlie Cawood in issue: May/2026

Review of Le Chant des Rameurs

Le Chant des Rameurs

Gabriel Saglio & Les Vieilles Pies

LVP

Rating: ★★★★

In the course of a variegated career, Gabriel Saglio has forged a solid reputation as a lyricist with a keen...

Reviewed by Daniel Brown in issue: Jan/Feb/2019

Review of New Jazz Musette

New Jazz Musette

Richard Galliano

Ponderosa Records 2 CDs

Rating: ★★★★

Plenty of artists venerate and emulate Astor Piazzolla. His distinctive signature sound, prolific output and long career left a huge...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: May/2017

Review of Kíla Alive

Kíla Alive

Kíla

Kíla Records

Rating: ★★★★

Recorded live in various venues throughout 2016, this latest offering from the irrepressible Kíla captures the outfit in their natural...

Reviewed by Michael Quinn in issue: June/2017

Review of Indestructible

Indestructible

Diego El Cigala

Sony Music

Rating: ★★★★

The brassy, bouncing opening bars of ‘Moreno Soy’, the first track of Indestructible, will make flamenco fans’ hearts pound to...

Reviewed by Chris Moss in issue: July/2017

Review of Vocês Querem Mate?

Vocês Querem Mate?

Piri

Far Out Recordings

Rating: ★★★★

Vocês Querem Mate? is the latest instalment in Far Out's ongoing resurrection of the catalogue on Roberto Quartin's long-buried record...

Reviewed by Brendon Griffin in issue: June/2017

Review of Sway

Sway

Gérald Toto

No Format!

Rating: ★★★★

Gérald Toto has kept us waiting seven years for a new solo album. The French-Antillean multi-instrumentalist does not disappoint with...

Reviewed by Dan Hobson in issue: November/2018

Review of Laughter Out of Tears

Laughter Out of Tears

Moira Smiley & Voco

Whim Records

Rating: ★★★

Moira Smiley has cemented her status as a musical polyglot with her latest release alongside her female choir Voco. Not...

Reviewed by Mike Fleck in issue: Jan/Feb/2015

Review of The Woman at the End of the World

The Woman at the End of the World

Elza Soares

Top of the World

Mais Um Discos

Rating: ★★★★★

Elza Soares has been one of Brazil's most controversial samba singers ever since her career began in the late 1950s,...

Reviewed by Russ Slater in issue: July/2016

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