Theo Bleckmann: Elegy

John Hollenbeck | Shai Maestro | Chris Tordini | Ben Monder | Theo Bleckmann

Although the German singer may be largely defined by his interesting renditions of the music of anybody from Charles Ives...

Reviewed in issue April/2017

Craig Taborn: Daylight Ghosts

Dave King | Chris Speed | Chris Lightcap | Craig Taborn

Daylight Ghosts is one of the most evocative and tantalising titles in recent memory, but, more to the point, it...

Reviewed in issue March/2017

Trygve Seim: Rumi Songs

With Tora Augestad singing the poetry of 13th century mystic Jelaluddin Rumi, the euro-jazz Norwegian saxophonist Trygve Seim has done...

Reviewed in issue February/2017

Giovanni Guidi/Gianluca Petrella/Louis Sclavis/Gerald Cleaver: Ida Lupino

Giovanni Guidi | Gianluca Petrella | Louis Sclavis | Gerald Cleaver

Who remembers actor-singer-director Ida Lupino now? A fair number of jazz fans may know of her principally through Carla Bley's...

Reviewed in issue February/2017

Andrew Cyrille: A Declaration Of Musical Independence

Andrew Cyrille | Richard Teitelbaum | Bill Frisell | Ben Street

Five years after his excellent TUM release Route De Freres drum legend Cyrille makes his ECM debut with an album...

Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Iro Haarla: Ante Lucem

Trygve Seim | Ulf Krokfors | Norrlands Operans Symfoniorkester | Jukka lissakkila | Karin Eriksson | Mika Kallio | Iro Haarla | Hayden Powell

Third Stream music ain't what it used to be – it's so much better, so much more organic, as if...

Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Wolfgang Muthspiel: Rising Grace

Wolfgang Muthspiel | Brian Blade | Larry Grenadier | Ambrose Akinmusire | Brad Mehldau

Line-ups don't come much more star-studded than this one, but it remains a fact that such endeavours in jazz often...

Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Keith Jarrett: A Multitude of Angels

Keith Jarrett

Like the sinuous violin that links the movements of Rimsky-Korsakov's ‘Scheherazade Op. 35’, representing the voice of Scheherazade telling stories...

Reviewed in issue Dec/Jan/2016/2017

Tigran Hamasyan/Arve Henriksen/Eivind Aarset/Jan Bang: Atmosphères

Tigran Hamasyan | Jan Bang | Eivind Aarset | Arve Henriksen

Today, perhaps more than ever, when music is increasingly being commodified by the digital revolution, a jazz recording has to...

Reviewed in issue October/2016

Peter Erskine Trio/John Taylor/Palle Danielsson: As It Was

Palle Danielsson | John Taylor | Peter Erskine

The reissue's titling in the past tense (one of the trio's four albums collected here was originally called As It...

Reviewed in issue October/2016