Louis Sclavis Quartet: Silk and Salt Melodies

Benjamin Moussay | Keyvan Chemirani | Louis Sclavis | Gilles Coronado

French clarinettist/composer Louis Sclavis is now into double figures with his projects for ECM. His new group features the same...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Mark Turner: Lathe Of Heaven

Marcus Gilmore | Avishai Cohen | Joe Martin | Mark Turner

There may be a great divide between uptempo anthem and downtempo ballad in jazz, but over time many have bridged...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Stefano Bollani: Joy in Spite of Everything

Stefano Bollani | Jesper Bodilsen | Bill Frisell | Morten Lund | Mark Turner

This is a well-executed album, impeccably recorded but one senses that these fine musicians are playing within themselves, including the...

Reviewed in issue October/2014

Mostly Other People do the Killing: Blue

Audun Kleive | Bjorn Kjellemyr | Terje Rypdal

Bassist Moppa Elliot's punky satirists MOPDTK, aside from having possibly the longest acronym in jazz band history, likes to target...

Reviewed in issue August/2019

Anders and Christian Jormin: Provenance

A Swedish duo of long-time Bobo Stenson bass man Anders and his pianist/percussionist brother Christian perform patient, quiet yet tenderly...

Reviewed in issue October/2017

Vilde&Inga: Makrofauna

Inga Margrete Aas | Vilde Sandve Alnæs

Vilde&Inga's ECM debut is not the sort of album you should put on if you're battling a headache. There's an...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Keith Jarrett/Charlie Haden: Last Dance

Keith Jarrett | Charlie Haden

Last Dance comes from the same sessions in March 2007 that produced the best-selling Jasmine, released in 2010. This second...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Benedicte Maurseth/Asne Valland Nordli: Over Tones

Hardanger fiddle and traditional Kveding vocals in a duo from the West of Norway combined in a subtle, ethereal way...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Matinier/Ambrosini: Inventio

French accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier and Italian Nyckelharpa player Marco Ambrosini favour a traditional, sensuous music informed by jazz, baroque and...

Reviewed in issue July/2014

Dino Saluzzi Group: El Valle de la Infancia

Matias Saluzzi | José Maria Saluzzi | Felix ‘Cuchara’ Saluzzi | Dino Saluzzi | Quintino Cinalli | Colacho Brizuela

This is a family affair, recorded in the first part of last year in Buenos Aires: the great bandeonist Dino...

Reviewed in issue July/2014