Reviews

Review of Keith Jarrett: Book Of Ways

Keith Jarrett: Book Of Ways

Keith Jarrett

ECM

Rating: ★★★

As well-installed as he is in the pantheon of jazz piano, Keith Jarrett has made several forays into other areas...

Reviewed in issue July/2023

Review of Dominic Miller: Vagabond

Dominic Miller: Vagabond

Ziv Ravitz | Dominic Miller | Jacob Karlzon | Nicolas Fiszman

ECM

Rating: ★★★

“It’s never been my intention to make a guitar album”, explains Dominic Miller in relation to Vagabond, his third album...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry: Our Daily Bread

Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry: Our Daily Bread

Carmen Castaldi | Joe Lovano | Marilyn Crispell

Editor's Choice

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

Jazz fans need no introduction to Joe Lovano and his partners in Trio Tapestry, but classical listeners who found things...

Reviewed in issue June/2023

Review of Ralph Alessi: It's Always Now

Ralph Alessi: It's Always Now

Gerry Hemingway | Ralph Alessi | Florian Weber | Bänz Oester

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

For over three decades, the American trumpeter Ralph Alessi has been a sought-after multi-stylistic virtuoso sideman, and in more recent...

Reviewed in issue May/2023

Review of Ralph Towner: At First Light

Ralph Towner: At First Light

Ralph Towner

ECM

Rating: ★★★

Towner is so deeply associated with ECM it's hard to imagine how his sound may otherwise have found expression in...

Reviewed in issue May/2023

Review of Anders Jormin: Pasado En Claro

Anders Jormin: Pasado En Claro

Lena Willemark | Anders Jormin | Jon Fält | Karin Nakagawa

ECM

Rating: ★★★

This is best heard as world music, but with a definite ECM twist to it. The opening track, ‘Mist Of...

Reviewed in issue May/2023

Review of Mette Henriette: Drifting

Mette Henriette: Drifting

Mette Henriette | Judith Hamann | Johan Lindvall

Editor's Choice

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

In an interview with writer and ECM chronicler Steve Lake, the young Norwegian saxophonist, composer and multi-media artist Mette Henriette...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Stephan Micus: Thunder

Stephan Micus: Thunder

Stephan Micus

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

The German musician/composer Stephan Mircus has been playing his vast and often bewildering armoury of specialist percussion instruments - Himalayan...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Bobo Stenson Trio: Sphere

Bobo Stenson Trio: Sphere

Bobo Stenson | Anders Jormin | Jon Fält

Editor's Choice

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

It seems impossible that it is 52 years since Underwear, Bobo Stenson's debut album on ECM, appeared, marking the beginning...

Reviewed in issue March/2023

Review of Sebastian Rochford: A Short Diary

Sebastian Rochford: A Short Diary

Kit Downes | Sebastian Rochford

Editor's Choice

ECM

Rating: ★★★★

Track titles seem to be merely an afterthought for a lot of jazz musicians. It's not so often within the...

Reviewed in issue February/2023

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