Dave Torn/Tim Berne/Ches Smith: Sun of Goldfinger

Ches Smith | Craig Taborn | David Torn | Mike Baggetta | Ryan Ferreira | Tim Berne

Put the cat out, loosen the trousers, pour a long one, shut your eyes and when you come round in...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: May/2019

Zachary Gvirtzman: Father Tongues

Most of these mediations for solo piano were performed ‘in the moment’ and the F-IRE Collective member Gvirtzman's patient, spatially-aware...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017

Amir Elsaffar Rivers Of Sound: Not Two

Amir Elsaffar | Amir ElSaffar | Carlo De Rosa | Craig Taborn | Dena Elsaffar | Fabrizio Cassol | George Ziadeh | Jason Adasciewicz | JD Parran | Miles Okazaki

Iraqi-American multi-instrumentalist Elsaffar expands his renowned sextet Two Rivers into a 17-piece orchestra, Rivers Of Sound, and the result is...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: July/2017

The Warriors of The Wonderful Sound: Soundpath

Alfred Patterson | Bobby Zankel | Chad Taylor | Dave Ballou | Duane Eubanks | Graham Haynes | Hafez Modirzadeh | Jose Davila | Josh Evans | Julian Pressley

The late and much-missed pianist and AACM (the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) co-founder Muhal Richard Abrams inspired...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2021

Kris Davis: Diatom Ribbons

Ches Smith | Esperanza Spalding | JD Allen | Kris Davis | Marc Ribot | Nels Cline | Terri Lyne Carrington | Tony Malaby | Trevor Dunn | Val Jeanty

Pianist-composer Kris Davis can be found among a small coterie of contemporary New York underground scene experimentalists, including Ingrid Laubrock,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: November/2019

Jeff Davis: Leaf House

Eivind Opsvik | Jeff Davis | Russ Lossing

Drum-led piano trios are always a bit different. There's a unique gravitational pull to the best ones, and that's nothing...

Reviewed by Stephen Graham in issue: February/2013

Stephan Crump/Ingrid Laubrock/Cory Smythe: Planktonic Finales

Cory Smythe | Ingrid Laubrock | Stephan Crump

Formerly London-based, Ingrid Laubrock has subsequently established a name for herself over her eight years on Brooklyn's leftfield jazz and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2017

Roscoe Mitchell With Ostravaska Banda: Distant Radio Transmission

Carlos Corddeio | Catherine Lee O Mus | Christa Robinson | Dana Reason | James Fei | John C Savage | John Gattis | Roberta Michel | Roscoe Mitchell | Sara Schoenbeck

The fascinating relationship between composition, improvisation and orchestration is vividly played out here. Although known first and foremost as co-leader...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: May/2020

Tricotism: Fingerbustin'

Craig Milverton | Nigel Price | Sandy Suchodolski

It may not be cutting-edgeaa but this debut release from Tricotism – featuring established jazz hands Craig Milverton (piano) and...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: October/2014

Dan Weiss: Starebaby

Ben Monder | Craig Taborn | Dan Weiss | Matt Mitchell | Trevor Dunn

There are two important dedications in this CD's booklet. One is to Ron Saint Germain, a ‘sacré monstre’ in the...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: September/2018