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 ...

In October 2020, Jon Armstrong released Reabsorb, two continuous suites for a Los Angeles sextet laid out one to each side of the LP, each built on a short poem by his wife Erin Armstrong. Armstrong ...

There’s nothing conventional about here i am no i, and thankfully neither Patrick Shiroishi nor Jason Nazary seem particularly interested in making it easy for the listener. This music exists ...

Jacob Wick was born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1985, studied trumpet at SUNY Purchase under Jon Faddis, and then took a Master of Fine Arts in social practice at the California College of the Arts. For ...

Polaroids, the third album from Swedish pianist and composer Emil Ingmar, took a few plays before I heard what it was doing. It is a personal record built on memory, family and the passing of time, ...

The Magic Lantern is Jamie Doe, Australian-born, London-based, recording under the name since 2011. This fifth album came out of a few months in which his daughter was born, and his father died six ...

Britain gets one night of this. On 21 November, the Branford Marsalis Quartet and Dianne Reeves play the British Airways ARC at Olympia as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival, the only UK date on a ...

Losen has been running out of Oslo since 2010, an offshoot of Odd Gjelsnes’s distribution company MusikkLosen, and its catalogue is overwhelmingly a CD catalogue. Vinyl surfaces now and again.

Matthew Hiram creates an appealing world of mindful, meditative soundscapes on Shade Songs. The Minneapolis-based interdisciplinary artist, composer and field recordist has built much of his work ...

The Unfolding, the second album from Brazilian guitarist and composer Matheus Wendt, showcases a musician on the rise, his stylish music full of life and sparkling with the freshness of a gentle ...