Uptown Jazz Tentet: What's Next

This big band is so dedicated to the retro cool modernist tradition that it sounds too workmanlike for the most...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021

Trio Agora: Connecting Identities

Trio Agora celebrates Lithuanian music and culture with an exotic examination of its native folk-classical traditions as well as the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021

Dave Douglas: Overcome

Ryan Keberle | Rudy Royston | Fay Victor | Camila Meza | Dave Douglas | Jorge Roeder

Douglas' comittment to both witness the democratic struggles of the USA and be an agent of change through music's power...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2021

Will Glaser: Climbing in Circles

Will Glaser | Matthew Herd | Liam Noble

This completes an unusual trilogy of releases, following Glaser's duo albums with saxophonist Matthew Herd, then pianist Liam Noble on...

Reviewed by Nick Hasted in issue: March/2021

Adam Rudolph & Go: Organic Orchestra: Focus And Field

Sara Schoenbeck | Sumie Kaneko | Adam Rudolph | Kaoru Watanabe | Ivan Barenboim | Michele Gentile | Stephanie Griffin | Ned Rothenberg

Through sideman duties with legends such as Yusef Lateef and Don Cherry; as well as work as a bandleader in...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2021

Caixa Cubo: Angela

Henrique Gomide | Noa Stroeter | João Fideles | Zé Leônidas

Not for nothing are Caixo Cubo regarded as one of the best electric jazz trios in Brazil, a country where...

Reviewed by Jane Cornwell in issue: March/2021

Peter Kronreif Wayfarers: Aeronautics

An Austrian drummer who's been Brooklyn-based for a decade now favours tautly arranged compositions yet with plenty of twists and...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: March/2021

Kari Ikonen: Impressions, Improvisations and Compositions

Kari Ikonen

This is an exemplary solo piano album, full of original twists made possible by a micro-tuning device trade marked by...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2021

Nicolas Meier and Dewa Budjana Group: Flying Spirits

Asaf Sirkis | Saat Syah | Jimmy Haslip | Dewa Budjana | Nic Meier

Is Nic Meier too nice? The man has developed a unique guitar sensibility, condensing his cosmopolitan influences into a potent...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: March/2021

The Seen: For The Sake Of Joy Of Study Of Oneself

Douglas Benford | Stewart Lee | Mark Wastell | Graham MacKeachan | Phil Durrant | Dominic Lash | Jennifer Allum | Phil Julian | Harry Broadbent | Bertrand Denzler

In many ways, you can think of this as an affectionate paean to the history of British improv. Back in...

Reviewed by Daniel Spicer in issue: March/2021