Jan Lundgren & Yamandu Costa: Inner Spirits

Jan Lundgren | Yamandu Costa

North meets South on this warmly restrained, coolly passionate album from Sweden’s Jan Lundgren and Brazil’s Yamandu Costa, who first...

Reviewed in issue September/2024

Marius Neset/London Sinfonietta: Geyser - Live at Royal Albert Hall

Ivo Neame | Jim Hart | Geoffrey Paterson | Marius Neset | Anton Eger | Conor Chaplin

Geoffrey Paterson, the classical conductor steering this 2022 live recording of a Proms concert for Norwegian reeds star Marius Neset's...

Reviewed in issue November/2023

Landgren/Wollny/Danielsson/Haffner: 4 Wheel Drive II

Michael Wollny | Wolfgang Haffner | Lars Danielsson | Nils Landgren

So-called jazz ‘supergroups’ usually come with a ‘wow’ factor by way of the pedigree of the personnel involved. Collectively though,...

Reviewed in issue October/2023

Emma Rawicz: Chroma

Ant Law | Emma Rawicz | Asaf Sirkis | Ivo Neame | Immy Churchill | Conor Chaplin

Like her splendid debut Incantation, there's something of the concept album about Rawicz's Chroma as befits a blossoming artist who...

Reviewed in issue September/2023

Joachim Kühn New Trio: Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XIV: Komeda

Chris Jennings | Joachim Kühn | Eric Schaefer | Krzysztof Lenczowski | Michał Zaborski | Dawid Lubowicz | Mateusz Smoczyński

There have been numerous recorded homages to the iconic jazz pianist-composer Krzysztof Komeda by artists from his native Poland: from...

Reviewed in issue August/2023

Émile Parisien/Roberto Negro: Les Métanuits

Émile Parisien | Roberto Negro

Émile Parisien, now 40 years of age, has assembled an impressive discography on ACT that can be calibrated on a...

Reviewed in issue August/2023

Laila Biali: Your Requests

Kurt Elling | Laila Biali | George Koller | Larnell Lewis | Caity Gyorgy | Emilie-Claire Barlow

This third album on ACT by the exceptionally talented, Vancouver-born vocalist, pianist, and songwriter Laila Biali, showcases a remarkable collection...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Various Artists: Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic XIII: Celebrating Mingus 100

Magnus Lindgren | Danny Grissett | Gregory Hutchinson | Georg Breinschmid | Matthias Schriefl | Tony Lakatos | Shannon Barnett | Jakob Mans | Camille Bertault

Live tributes to the departed greats are now the lifeblood of the mainstream circuit, which is doubtless why jazz is...

Reviewed in issue August/2022

The Nils Landgren Funk Unit: Funk Is My Religion

Sweet soul, groove-jazz and funk has been the retro ingredients effectively served up by trombonist Nils Landgren over the last...

Reviewed in issue July/2021

Marius Neset: A New Dawn

Marius Neset

A solo tenor sax performance is no easy task but the Norwegian saxophonist– composer Marius Neset might strike you as...

Reviewed in issue June/2021