Reviews
Maciej Obara Quartet: Frozen Silence
Ole Morten Vågan | Maciej Obara | Gard Nilssen | Dominik Wania
Altoist Maciej Obara’s third album on ECM sees him team up with his Polish-Norwegian quartet for their most persuasive statement...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
Jacob Young/ Mats Eilertsen/Audun Kleive: Eventually
Audun Kleive | Mats Eilertsen | Jacob Young
Not all jazz recordings have to be at 700mph, or be out to impress, or act as a musical visiting...
Reviewed in issue August/2023
Elina Duni: A Time To Remember
Matthieu Michel | Rob Luft | Elina Duni | Fred Thomas
The Swiss-Albanian vocalist Elina Duni, an artist with a rare sensitivity to the connecting points between pure vocal and instrumental...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Keith Jarrett: Book Of Ways
As well-installed as he is in the pantheon of jazz piano, Keith Jarrett has made several forays into other areas...
Reviewed in issue July/2023
Dominic Miller: Vagabond
Ziv Ravitz | Dominic Miller | Jacob Karlzon | Nicolas Fiszman
“It’s never been my intention to make a guitar album”, explains Dominic Miller in relation to Vagabond, his third album...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry: Our Daily Bread
Carmen Castaldi | Joe Lovano | Marilyn Crispell
Jazz fans need no introduction to Joe Lovano and his partners in Trio Tapestry, but classical listeners who found things...
Reviewed in issue June/2023
Ralph Alessi: It's Always Now
Gerry Hemingway | Ralph Alessi | Florian Weber | Bänz Oester
For over three decades, the American trumpeter Ralph Alessi has been a sought-after multi-stylistic virtuoso sideman, and in more recent...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Ralph Towner: At First Light
Towner is so deeply associated with ECM it's hard to imagine how his sound may otherwise have found expression in...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Anders Jormin: Pasado En Claro
Lena Willemark | Anders Jormin | Jon Fält | Karin Nakagawa
This is best heard as world music, but with a definite ECM twist to it. The opening track, ‘Mist Of...
Reviewed in issue May/2023
Mette Henriette: Drifting
Mette Henriette | Judith Hamann | Johan Lindvall
In an interview with writer and ECM chronicler Steve Lake, the young Norwegian saxophonist, composer and multi-media artist Mette Henriette...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
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