Reviews

Review of Mary Halvorson: Cloudward

Mary Halvorson: Cloudward

Mary Halvorson | Nick Dunston | Laurie Anderson | Tomas Fujiwara | Adam O’Farrill | Jacob Garchik | Patricia Brennan

Editor's Choice

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

Halvorson plays in a dizzying array of set ups. So, it’s a pleasure to see how she’s maintained and nurtured...

Reviewed in issue February/2024

Review of Ambrose Akinmusire: Owl Song

Ambrose Akinmusire: Owl Song

Bill Frisell | Ambrose Akinmusire | Herlin Herlin

Editor's Choice

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

Ambrose Akinmusire’s first four studio albums were musically restless, deploying hip-hop textures, sometimes jagged classical strings and rapped passages which...

Reviewed in issue February/2024

Review of Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension

Matt Holman | Ingrid Jensen | Sebastian Noelle | John Ellis | Jacob Garchik | Sam Sadigursky | Matt Clohesy | Adam Birnbaum | Darcy James Argue

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

Secret Society, says the sleeve notes, make music that is topical and unabashedly political. Well, thank goodness someone is. Railing...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Review of Brad Mehldau: Largo

Brad Mehldau: Largo

Brad Mehldau | William Frank ‘Bill’ Reichenbach Jr | Thomas Pasatieri | Jorge Rossy | Emilie A Bernstein | Victor Indrizzo | Gary Gray | Matt Chamberlain | Justin Meldal-Johnsen | David Shostac

Editor's Choice

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

Brad Mehldau’s eclecticism is now something of a given – recent releases such as Jacob’s Ladder and Finding Gabriel have...

Reviewed in issue August/2023

Review of Cécile McLorin Salvant: Mélusine

Cécile McLorin Salvant: Mélusine

Aaron Diehl | Obed Calvaire | Kyle Poole | Sullivan Fortner | Luques Curtis | Lawrence Leathers | Weedie Braimah | Daniel Swenberg | Paul Sikivie | Cécile McLorin Salvant

Editor's Choice

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

Anyone who thinks they already know the full extent of Cécile McLorin Salvant's artistry should listen to Mélusine without further...

Reviewed in issue April/2023

Review of Brad Mehldau: Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles

Brad Mehldau: Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles

Brad Mehldau

Editor's Choice

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

Twenty-first century jazz piano icon Brad Mehldau has been investigating the best ways to interpret his own selection of cults...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Joshua Redman Quartet: Long Gone

Joshua Redman Quartet: Long Gone

Christian McBride | Brian Blade | Joshua Redman | Brad Mehldau

Editor's Choice

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

This November's EFG London Jazz Festival reunion of saxophone star Joshua Redman's quartet featuring three of the classiest sidekicks in...

Reviewed in issue October/2022

Review of Brad Mehldau: Variations on a Melancholy Theme

Brad Mehldau: Variations on a Melancholy Theme

Brad Mehldau

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★

Brad Mehldau and the Grammy Award-winning, New York-based Orpheus Chamber Orchestra toured Europe, Russia, and the US with Variations on...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Review of Tigran Hamasyan: The Call Within

Tigran Hamasyan: The Call Within

Tigran Hamasyan

Editor's Choice

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

On his third trio album, the 33-year-old Armenian-born, LA-based pianist-composer Tigran Hamasyan intensifies the uniquely personal soundworld he developed on...

Reviewed in issue September/2020

Review of Redman/Mehldau/McBride/Blade: RoundAgain

Redman/Mehldau/McBride/Blade: RoundAgain

Christian McBride | Joshua Redman | Brian Blade | Brad Mehldau

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★

What could be the first supergroup of the post-pandemic era is actually the reincarnation of Joshua Redman's original mid-1990s quartet....

Reviewed in issue July/2020

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