Reviews
Craig Taborn: Shadow Plays
Despite the excellence of his trio work solo piano is a format in which Craig Taborn has thrived in what...
Reviewed in issue November/2021
Andrew Cyrille Quartet: The News
Andrew Cyrille | Bill Frisell | Ben Street | David Virelles
This album challenges perceptions and assumptions in many ways. Drummer-composer Andrew Cyrille may be seen first and foremost as an...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Marc Johnson: Overpass
Over a period of nearly half a century, Johnson has been a high-level player including as a creative bandleader with...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Marcin Wasilewski Trio: En Attendant
Michal Miskiewicz | Marcin Wasilewski | Slawomir Kurkiewicz
The Marcin Wasilewski Trio is as close to an inseparable collective force as you can get in jazz with its...
Reviewed in issue October/2021
Thomas Strønen/Ayumi Tanaka/Marthe Lea: Bayou
Ayumi Tanaka | Marthe Lea | Thomas Strønen
The drummer-composer Thomas Strønen has been a vital presence on the Nordic contemporary jazz scene since the new millenium. He's...
Reviewed in issue September/2021
Michael Mantler: Coda – Orchestra Suites
Bjarne Roupe | Michael Mantler
Austrian trumpeter-composer Mantler makes music that can move from shadow to light in a moment. The mercurial moods of this...
Reviewed in issue September/2021
Vijay Iyer Trio: Uneasy
Vijay Iyer | Tyshawn Sorey | Linda May Han Oh
New York pianist-composer Vijay Iyer has led many kinds of bands in an eventful career but the trio has been...
Reviewed in issue May/2021
Nik Bärtsch: Entendre
The closer ECM Records' founder Manfred Eicher pays attention to a particular session, the more it makes one want to...
Reviewed in issue May/2021
Jakob Bro: Uma Elmo
Arve Henriksen | Jakob Bro | Jorge Rossy
This album, composed by Danish guitarist Jakob Bro, is an antithesis to fidget culture. It resets listening, and exhumes a...
Reviewed in issue March/2021
Shai Maestro: Human Racing: Human
Philip Dizack | Ofri Nehemya | Shai Maestro | Jorge Roeder
Witnessing a performance by Israeli composer/bassist Avishai Cohen at London's Union Chapel in 2011 left abiding memories – not just...
Reviewed in issue March/2021
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