Iva Bittová

A solo debut on the giant Munich jazz label for a Czech singer-composer, who blends folk and contemporary classical influences...

Reviewed in issue May/2013

Quercus

June Tabor | Huw Warren | Iain Ballamy

Often admired outside the world of folk music for her darkly penetrating, hypnotic vocal, June Tabor is also a gripping...

Reviewed in issue May/2013

John Young: Trios

Andy Sheppard | Carla Bley | Steve Swallow

A famous figure in Chicago, and ex-Andy Kirk, Young was never quite in the top echelon of pianists, but this...

Reviewed in issue November/2013

Eleni Karaindrou: Concert in Athens

Jan Garbarek | Eleni Karaindrou | Alexander Myrat | Vangelis Christopoulos | the Camerata Orchestra

This haunting, evocative album largely derives from music written for motion pictures by the late filmaker Theo Angelopoulos and theatre...

Reviewed in issue April/2013

Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet: Wis!awa

David Virelles | Tomasz Sta!ko | Thomas Morgan | Gerald Cleaver

The first double album of Sta!ko's career, the first recorded completely in America, the first, with an American band....

Reviewed in issue March/2013

Keith Jarrett: Hymns/Spheres

Keith Jarrett

This CD is the first re-issue of complete Hymns/Spheres, Jarrett's remarkable series of recordings comprising ‘Hymn of Remembrance’, the...

Reviewed in issue March/2013

Eberhard Weber: Résumé

Jan Garbarek | Michael Di Pasqua | Eberhard Weber

Eberhard Weber played over a thousand concerts with the Jan Garbarek group before suffering a stroke from which we all...

Reviewed in issue March/2013

Charles Lloyd: Hagar's Song

Jason Moran | Charles Lloyd

This duet album places Lloyd's sumptuous tone, articulation and hypnotic melodic invention on tenor sax and alto sax centre stage,...

Reviewed in issue March/2013

Chris Potter: The Sirens

David Virelles | Larry Grenadier | Chris Potter | Eric Harland | Craig Taborn

Chris Potter is one of the very few contemporary heavyweights in the big US tenor tradition. As a sax sideman...

Reviewed in issue February/2013

Eivind Aarset: Dream Logic

Jan Bang | Eivind Aarset

Glacially slow and lingering Dream Logic's 11 tracks are mostly the work of Bang and Aarset although producer Erik Honoré,...

Reviewed in issue February/2013