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 ...

I have been a huge fan of Gilad Atzmon since Exile, his 2003 album with the Orient House Ensemble featuring Reem Kelani and Dhafer Youssef. It has sat proudly on my CD shelf ever since, often played ...

Every so often, a lineup tells you most of what you need to know before a note has sounded. For Floating, Emile Parisien (soprano saxophone) has gathered three musicians who lead in their own right: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zaccai Curtis arrives at Sonoluminescence Vol.1 with considerably more history than the average “overnight success”. The Connecticut-born pianist has spent years absorbing, performing and teaching the ...

I should own up to where I started back when this first came through a few weeks ago. The sleeve looked like a budget job, no physical edition surfaced anywhere, and I filed Donald Vega away as a name ...