Jack DeJohnette/Ravi Coltrane/Matthew Garrison: In Movement

Matthew Garrison | Jack DeJohnette | Ravi Coltrane

Despite the size of Jack DeJohnette’s discography, it is probably fair to say the drummer’s best recordings under his own...

Reviewed in issue June/2016

Jon Bake: Warp

Jon Balke | Mattis Myrland | Ellinor Myskja Balke | Wenche Losnegaard

How do you make a solo piano sound more definitively solo, the act of running fingers up and down its...

Reviewed in issue May/2016

Michael Formanek Ensemble Kolossus: The Distance

Alan Ferber | Tim Berne | Ralph Alessi | Mark Helias | Mary Halvorson | Michael Formanek | Shane Endsley | Loren Stillman | Jeff Nelson | Kirk Knuffke

Formanek may be known primarily through his long running association with Tim Berne but he has been a bandleader of...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Anat Fort Trio: Birdwatching

The Israeli pianist's third chamber jazz trio CD on the Munich label, the highly regarded Italian reedsman Gianluigi Trovesi guests...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith: a cosmic rhythm with each stroke

Wadada Leo Smith | Vijay Iyer

Their long-running musical relationship has been cemented by Iyer’s membership of Smith’s excellent Golden Quartet and now the two come...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Ralph Alessi Quartet: Quiver

Ralph Alessi | Nasheet Waits | Drew Gress | Gary Versace

The Californian, New York-based ex-Steve Coleman trumpeter Ralph Alessi releases his second quartet recording for ECM with a telling change...

Reviewed in issue April/2016

Michel Benita & Ethics: River Silver

Matthieu Michel | Philippe Garcia | Mieko Miyazaki | Michel Benita | Eivind Aarset

“I originally wanted to see if I could bring the koto into a more or less ‘traditional’ set-up with guitar,...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Tord Gustavsen with Simin Tander and Jarle Vespestad: What Was Said

Jarle Vespestad | Tord Gustavsen | Simin Tander

This album is all about the subtlety of sound, which has been perfectly captured in Oslo’s Rainbow Studio. First are...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Ches Smith: The Bell

Ches Smith | Mat Maneri | Craig Taborn

Drummer and percussionist are often interchangeable terms but Smith shows his distinct qualification for the latter on this adventurous, quite...

Reviewed in issue March/2016

Avishai Cohen: Into the Silence

Bill McHenry | Nasheet Waits | Avishai Cohen | Yonathan Avishai | Eric Revis

The bushy bearded trumpeter from New York is the lesser known of the Israeli jazz Avishai Cohens. But that might...

Reviewed in issue March/2016