“Celestial Suite” is a wonderful set of spiritual soul-jazz from the Atlantis Jazz Ensemble, with a kinetic energy that harks back to some of the finest work on independent labels such as Strata East ...

Released following the death of tabla maestro Zakir Hussain, Sangam & Friends serves as both a celebration of an extraordinary musical friendship and a poignant reminder of the profound connection ...

It would be difficult to overestimate how thoroughly Steven Bernstein has, for thirty-odd years, defined himself by the slide trumpet — that ungainly, marvellous contraption he has all but ...

Blue Note’s signing strategy of late has been a mixed affair. For every Julian Lage or Melissa Aldana — artists who feel like genuine torchbearers of the label’s legacy — there’s a debut that hedges ...

Let’s get the admission out of the way first: jazz clarinet, as a rule, prompts an involuntary reach for the skip button around these parts. Decades of well-meaning Goodman pastiche and Shaw-in-aspic ...

Well, this is a pleasant surprise. Feebles, Fables and Ferns, the newly unearthed ECM release documenting a one-time 1988 meeting between guitarist Mick Goodrick and pianist Fred Hersch, feels like a ...

Norwegian duo consisting of Thomas Cortes and Erik Lunde returns with “Postkort fra Skagen”, a record that reads like a sonic travel diary, delicately unspooling memory, mood, and place across an ...

Guitarist, composer and educator Mick Goodrick is perhaps one of the unsung heroes of modern jazz guitar. Pat Metheny’s words highlight this sentiment. “Mick Goodrick is somebody who really had an ...

Trumpeter and composer Jeremy Pelt successfully delivers one of the most purposeful statements of his career so far on his latest release “Our Community Will Not Be Erased”. This is an album that ...

Saxophonist and composer Chris Potter has long occupied a rare space in modern jazz: a virtuoso technician whose playing never sacrifices emotional clarity for sheer complexity. Since emerging in the ...