The best new jazz albums: April 2022
- Thursday, March 17, 2022
The Editor's Choice albums from the April issue of Jazzwise, featuring Theo Croker, Joy Ellis, Michael Leonhart Orchestra, Brad Mehldau, Danilo Pérez, Flora Purim and Mark Turner
The Editor's Choice albums from the April issue of Jazzwise, featuring Theo Croker, Joy Ellis, Michael Leonhart Orchestra, Brad Mehldau, Danilo Pérez, Flora Purim and Mark Turner
The Editor's Choice albums from the March issue of Jazzwise, featuring Melissa Aldana, Binker & Moses, Avishai Cohen, Anna von Hausswolff, Arun Ghosh, Kinetika Bloco and Mattan Klein Quartet
The ability to ‘see music in colour’ or ‘see colour in sound’ has a long history among performers and composers. Hugh Morris meets young saxophonist Emma Rawicz, the latest in a distinguished line of jazz synaesthetes
Cécile McLorin Salvant is one of the music’s great communicators. Kevin Le Gendre met her to discuss her album Ghost Song and found the singer in a garrulous but thoughtful mood
Now a true living jazz giant, whose recording and gigging schedule has barely let up, even during the pandemic, legendary guitarist Pat Metheny still finds the time to nurture new young talent – as Stuart Nicholson discovers
The Editor's Choice albums from the February issue of Jazzwise, featuring Mark Lockheart, Evan Parker, Georgia Cécile, Jane Ira Bloom & Allison Miller
The votes are in! Featuring outstanding releases from Charles Lloyd, Pat Metheny, Gretchen Parlato, Georgia Mancio, Songs of Kemet, Jaimie Branch and many more...
Featuring Sons of Kemet, Pat Metheny, Rosie Frater-Taylor, Julian Lage and more, all of these outstanding albums were reviewed in the 2021 issues of Jazzwise and all were selected as Editor's Choice
Featuring outstanding new releases from Chick Corea Akoustic Band, Abdullah Ibrahim, Christian McBride and more...
Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road' did for literature what Charlie Parker and John Coltrane did for jazz, whipping it up into brave new shapes and forms that challenged the norm and set a generation in motion, writes Keith Shadwick