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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are albums you listen to, and then there are albums you inhabit. MOLS – The Mols Booklet of Melodies belongs firmly to the second category: a 70-minute symphonic work for jazz quartet and string ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The Realization” is the thoughtful, evocative new release from Norwegian bassist John Børge Askeland. Featuring the unmistakable trumpet playing of Arve Henriksen, the dream-like nature of the ...

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 ...

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 ...