Erik Friedlander: Timeless Suite

This New York downtown cellist takes a more traditional but no less quirky route paying tribute to Oscar Pettiford, a...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Cæcilie Norby and Lars Danielsson: Just The Two Of Us

Cæcilie Norby | Lars Danielsson

This duet album by husband and wife duo Cæcilie Norby and Lars Danielsson presents an intimate, enigmatic and playful collection...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Iiro Rantala: My Working Class Hero

Iiro Rantala

It's not impossible to imagine that, half a century ago, some people's first exposure to the music of The Beatles...

Reviewed in issue September/2015

Mighty Sam McClain & Knut Reiersrud: Tears of the World

Mighty Sam McClain, a charismatic New Orleans septuagenarian, sings the blues alongside veteran guitarist Knut Reiersrud and a Norwegian band,...

Reviewed in issue September/2015

Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic IV: Accordion Night

For those not enamoured of the charms of the squeezebox, here's an engaging series of live duets featuring accordion (includes...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Terri Lyne Carrington: The ACT Years

Gary Thomas | Kevin Eubanks | Greg Osby | Adam Rogers | Jimmy Haslip | Jeff Richman | Herbie Hancock | Greg Kurstin | Bojan Z | Karim Ziad

A curious compilation in that Carrington only recorded two albums as leader for ACT, Jazz Is A Spirit and Structure....

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Romain Collin: Press Enter

Grey McMurray | Laura Metcalf | Megan Rose | Jean-Michel Pilc | Luques Curtis | Kendrick Scott | Mino Cinelu | Romain Collin

Born in France but based in New York, to which he moved after graduating from the Berklee College of Music...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Various: Magic Moments 7 Sounds of Surprise

A diverse sample of recent releases from the other Munich jazz label including Manu Katche, Michael Wollny/Marius Neset and Nguyên...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Gerardo Núñez/Ulf Wakenius: Jazzpaña Live

Ramón Valle | Omar Rodriguez Calvo | Chano Dominquez | Gerardo Núñez | Christof Lauer | Ulf Wakenius | Liber Torriente | Cepillo

Few labels better define the openness of contemporary jazz than Siggi Loch's ACT, and in turn few projects better define...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Perko & Rantala: It Takes Two to Tango

The renowned Finnish jazz pianist Iiro Rantala and saxophonist Juka Pero focus on the tango in their interpretations of a...

Reviewed in issue June/2015