When Clifford Jordan reached Paris in March 1975, at the height of his mid-decade resurgence, a new Selmer Mark VII tenor saxophone awaited him. Night of the Mark VII is named after it. Recorded in ...

Enrico Rava’s latest release, Corners, lets its character unfold through the shared connections between the musicians. The little shifts of emphasis, the knowing exchanges, and the sense that nobody ...

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 ...

Japanese saxophonist Sinsuke Fujieda’s masterful new release, “Fukushima”, is an emotionally charged, sonically rich journey encompassing the very best in modal/spiritual jazz. Led by Fujieda on tenor ...

Jazzaggression’s Handmade imprint is the Finnish label’s most tactile undertaking: limited lathe runs cut at Studio Pelto in Finland, issued in batches of twenty-five or fifty and gone almost before ...

Listening to this latest release from Per Texas Johansson, I can’t help feeling that the depth, individuality and ingenuity with which he approaches large ensemble music is actually unique. Orkester ...

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 ...

American vibraphonist and composer Sasha Berliner follows up on her little gem of an album, “Onyx” (JMI 2022), with “Fantôme”, a startling new release that solidifies her reputation as one of the most ...

Few guitarists cast a shadow over modern jazz quite like Pat Martino. A master of astonishing technique, harmonic sophistication and soulful invention, his influence stretches across generations of ...

I came to Pedro Ricardo by accident. Cantar das Kadakinhas, from his 2023 debut Soprem Bons Ventos, surfaced somewhere in my listening and has hung around ever since. That album is an instrumental ...

Sometimes an album’s greatest strength lies in its refusal to settle into one stylistic lane. Slow Tiger, the debut from this New York-based quintet, is an intriguing collision of jazz improvisation, ...

New York was overrun with independent disco and boogie record labels in the late 1970s and early 1980s, with Salsoul and Prelude probably the most influential and well known. But of the other east ...