Iceland may not be the first country that comes to mind when mapping the fault lines of contemporary jazz, but albums like ...

A Box Set Review The career of Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stańko, spanning the 1960s through the 2000s, is a testament to his ...

Buying music from the age of 8. Bought my first ‘jazz’ album at the age of 12 and hopelessly obsessed ever since. Brought up ...

It’s easy to hear a personal impulse at work on “Dignity”, the latest release from Isabelle Bodenseh. And it’s precisely that ...

The legendary trumpeter, composer and educator Woody Shaw performed at the highest level over his relatively short period of ...

Stille’ marks the latest release from Jesper Thorn who continues his “exploration as sound as refuge” – as compellingly ...

For his third solo release, originally released in 1978, Joe Chambers, whilst best known as a drummer, takes on the piano for ...

It would be difficult to overestimate the degree to which Buddy! announces Stephen Parisi Jr. as a bassist unusually conscious of lineage, obligation and musical etiquette. Debut albums are so often ...

Few jazz projects can claim a gestation period as epic as John Vanore’s Easter Island Suite. Forty years in the making, this ...

There’s a familiar spark to Ingrid Jensen’s playing that’s been there since her emergence in the 1990s – that burnished, singing trumpet tone allied to a restless, searching musical intelligence. From ...

There are certain ECM recordings that feel less like albums and more like quiet conversations preserved in amber. Oracle, the ...

With FAMILIA, Berlin-based Argentine pianist and composer Ramiro Zayas moves decisively into large-ensemble territory, ...