Reviews
Can't Sit Down
CJ Chenier is the son of the late, great Clifton Chenier, the black Louisiana accordion player whose zydeco recordings on...
Reviewed by Garth Cartwright in issue: Nov/Dec/2011
East North
There has always been an eclectic tinge, and a flair for the complex and wildly virtuosic in Russian jazz. This...
Reviewed by Kim Burton in issue: Nov/Dec/2012
¿Que Vola?
¿Que Vola? (‘What's Up?’ – a greeting commonly used by Cubans) opens traditionally with a grand salutation to the Santería...
Reviewed by Charlotte Algar in issue: March/2019
El Rey: A Man and His Music
To test-drive this new retrospective of Tito Puente's long relationship with Fania's sister Tico label, crank up the first track...
Reviewed by Mark Sampson in issue: Nov/Dec/2010
Albala
Like his compatriot Bassekou Kouyaté, it has taken Samba Touré a while to emerge as a star of Malian music....
Reviewed by Nigel Williamson in issue: July/2013
Fado: Coimbra-Lisbonne 1949-1961
Having Alfredo Marceneiro, Amalia Rodrigues, Lucília do Carmo, Fernando Farinha, Maria Teresa de Noronha and Hermínia Silva on one record...
Reviewed by GonÇalo Frota in issue: Nov/Dec/2013
Smaa Smaa
Hasna El Becharia is the most famous living, breathing exponent of Algerian Gnawa, that raw and rolling Afro-Berber trance music...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Apr/May/2010
Volume One 1970-1979
‘Sorry’? The unusual first name is probably an Anglicisation of ‘Sorhy,’ which is itself a twisted version of the common...
Reviewed by Andy Morgan in issue: Aug/Sep/2011
