Reviews
Mary Halvorson: Cloudward
Halvorson plays in a dizzying array of set ups. So, it’s a pleasure to see how she’s maintained and nurtured...
Reviewed in issue February/2024
Ambrose Akinmusire: Owl Song
Bill Frisell | Ambrose Akinmusire | Herlin Herlin
Ambrose Akinmusire’s first four studio albums were musically restless, deploying hip-hop textures, sometimes jagged classical strings and rapped passages which...
Reviewed in issue February/2024
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society: Dynamic Maximum Tension
Secret Society, says the sleeve notes, make music that is topical and unabashedly political. Well, thank goodness someone is. Railing...
Reviewed in issue October/2023
Brad Mehldau: Largo
Brad Mehldau’s eclecticism is now something of a given – recent releases such as Jacob’s Ladder and Finding Gabriel have...
Reviewed in issue August/2023
Cécile McLorin Salvant: Mélusine
Anyone who thinks they already know the full extent of Cécile McLorin Salvant's artistry should listen to Mélusine without further...
Reviewed in issue April/2023
Brad Mehldau: Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles
Twenty-first century jazz piano icon Brad Mehldau has been investigating the best ways to interpret his own selection of cults...
Reviewed in issue March/2023
Joshua Redman Quartet: Long Gone
Christian McBride | Brian Blade | Joshua Redman | Brad Mehldau
This November's EFG London Jazz Festival reunion of saxophone star Joshua Redman's quartet featuring three of the classiest sidekicks in...
Reviewed in issue October/2022
Brad Mehldau: Variations on a Melancholy Theme
Brad Mehldau and the Grammy Award-winning, New York-based Orpheus Chamber Orchestra toured Europe, Russia, and the US with Variations on...
Reviewed in issue July/2021
Tigran Hamasyan: The Call Within
On his third trio album, the 33-year-old Armenian-born, LA-based pianist-composer Tigran Hamasyan intensifies the uniquely personal soundworld he developed on...
Reviewed in issue September/2020
Redman/Mehldau/McBride/Blade: RoundAgain
Christian McBride | Joshua Redman | Brian Blade | Brad Mehldau
What could be the first supergroup of the post-pandemic era is actually the reincarnation of Joshua Redman's original mid-1990s quartet....
Reviewed in issue July/2020
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