Michael Formanek: Small Places

Craig Taborn | Gerald Cleaver | Michael Formanek | Tim Berne

How much more ECM can you get? Not only is bassist/composer Michael Formanek an ECM artist but so are altoist...

Reviewed by Robert Shore in issue: Dec/Jan/2012/2013

Miles Okazaki: Trickster

Anthony Tidd | Craig Taborn | Miles Okazaki | Sean Rickman

The cover art is of a raven and fox sculpted from paper, and Miles Okazaki is keen to tell you...

Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: October/2017

Ches Smith: The Bell

Ches Smith | Craig Taborn | Mat Maneri

Drummer and percussionist are often interchangeable terms but Smith shows his distinct qualification for the latter on this adventurous, quite...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: March/2016

Hafez Modizardeh: Facets

Craig Taborn | Hafez Modizardeh | Kris Davis | Tyshawn Sorey

Tenor saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh's previous releases such as 2012's Post-Chromodal Out! established him as an artist who was able to...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: April/2021

Drew Gress: The Sky Inside

Craig Taborn | Drew Gress | Ralph Alessi | Tim Berne | Tom Rainey

Drew Gress has been a leading go-to bassist sideman over the past two decades in New York experimental jazz circles,...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2013

Farmers By Nature: Love and Ghosts

Craig Taborn | Gerald Cleaver | William Parker

Jazz industry convention would call FBN a piano trio but that would be something of a restrictive term. Cleaver, Parker...

Reviewed by Kevin Le Gendre in issue: October/2014

Ingrid Laubrock: Serpentines

Craig Taborn | Dan Peck | Ingrid Laubrock | Miya Masaoka | Peter Evans | Sam Pluta | Tyshawn Sorey

Ingrid Laubrock's various recordings as leader for the Swiss Label Intakt have positioned her at the hub of Brooklyn's experimental...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2017

Dave Holland's Prism: Prism

Craig Taborn | Dave Holland | Eric Harland | Kevin Eubanks

This is a startling deviation from the finely tuned precision of Holland’s ensembles, previously represented on the ECM label, Universal...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: October/2013

Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth: Epicenter

Chris Cheek | Chris Lightcap | Craig Taborn | Gerald Cleaver | Tony Malaby

Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth have quietly been accumulating favourable reviews for almost 10 years now, but they really began to get...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: April/2015

Zachary Gvirtzman: Father Tongues

Most of these mediations for solo piano were performed ‘in the moment’ and the F-IRE Collective member Gvirtzman's patient, spatially-aware...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2017