Reviews
Yuval Cohen Quartet: Winter Poems
Yuval Cohen | Alon Benjamani | Alon Near | Tom Oren
When the first fulsome notes of Yuval Cohen’s soprano sax come in over Tom Oren’s gentle piano introduction to 'First...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Vijay Iyer/Wadada Leo Smith: Defiant Life
As the title suggests, this is a work inspired by struggle and challenge, despair at the state of the world...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Anouar Brahem: After the Last Sky
Anja Lechner | Dave Holland | Anouar Brahem | Django Bates
Brahem began this project before the horrors of Gaza unfolded. But it remains a powerful response to the tragedy of...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Billy Hart: Just
Ethan Iverson | Ben Street | Billy Hart | Mark Turner
Billy Hart’s fluid rhythms and inner drive reflect decades of drumming at the highest level. Now aged 84, he releases...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Mathias Eick: Lullaby
Mathias Eick | Kristjan Randalu | Hans Hulbkækmo | Ole Morten Vågen
Mathias Eick dropped Lullaby on Valentine’s Day, underlining where it’s at: romantically tilted, lyrical and open-hearted.His band shimmers with the...
Reviewed in issue April/2025
Julia Hülsmann Quartet: Under the Surface
Benjamin Lackner | Linda May Han Oh | Mathias Eick | Mark Turner | Matthieu Chazarenc
In June 2012 the Julia Hülsmann Trio became a quartet with the addition of Tom Arthurs on trumpet who stayed...
Reviewed in issue February/2025
Thomas Strønen: Relations
Jorge Rossy | Thomas Strønen | Craig Taborn | Sinikka Langeland | Chris Potter
The Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen, an inspired collagist of solo percussion sounds and an open-minded collaborator too, might have imagined...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Jason Moran, Thomas Morgan, Andrew Cyrille: Taking Turns
Andrew Cyrille | Bill Frisell | Jason Moran | Lee Konitz | Jakob Bro | Thomas Morgan
It’s amazing to think that Lee Konitz, with his distinctively questioning, interior sound, played with Miles and Mulligan at the...
Reviewed in issue December/2024
Louis Sclavis/Benjamin Moussay: Unfolding
Benjamin Moussay | Louis Sclavis
Every note counts in a duo. Each note emerges in plain sight and the recording machine captures it, good, bad...
Reviewed in issue November/2024
Tord Gustavsen Trio: Seeing
Tord Gustavsen | Jarle Vespestad | Steinar Raknes
Like many ECM artists, Tord Gustavsen is known for working on the borders of jazz, folk and classical, along with...
Reviewed in issue November/2024
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