Reviews
Salsa Salsa
In January 1983 Tito Puente took his orchestra to a club in New York, for a rousing and historic session....
Reviewed in issue October/2024
Are Possible
Six years after the release of Plainly Mistaken, banjo maestro Nathan Bowles has once again partnered with double-bassist Casey Toll...
Reviewed in issue October/2024
Super Son
Juan Pablo Torres y Algo Nuevo
Despite the name of Cuban trombonist Torres’ band (‘Something New’), 50 years later these 1977 cuts can’t help but sound...
Reviewed in issue October/2024
Creation
For years this was a real rarity. Recorded back in 1979 by the Jamaican singer Freddie McKay, Creation has been...
Reviewed in issue October/2024
Old Juniper
The Appalachian-style trio The Down Hill Strugglers return with their first album since the passing of founding member John Cohen....
Reviewed in issue October/2024
Queen of Eyes
Take a pair of harmonising female vocalists, ask them to record outside a one-room cabin on an island off Washington...
Reviewed in issue October/2024
Little Electric Chicken Heart
Frango Elétrico’s name comes from the bastardisation of their original surname, Fainguelernt, and while Elétrico’s 2018 debut with its indie...
Reviewed in issue October/2024
Latin-Soul-Rock
Fifty years after its original release, this long out-of-print album has been remastered and reissued on vinyl and digital form....
Reviewed in issue October/2024
Simple Pleasures
Pioneering banjo player, composer, and a key leading lady of bluegrass, Alison Brown wears many...
Reviewed in issue October/2024
Out in La La Land
Martha Spencer is from deep in the Appalachian folk tradition. So deep that she lives on top of a lonely...
Reviewed in issue August/September/2024
