Gary Burton: The New Quartet

Gary Burton | Harry Blazer | Abraham Laboriel | Michael Goodrick

This ECM Touchstone reissue from 1973 documents perhaps the least known of Burton's famous quartets, the first of which, with...

Reviewed in issue October/2019

Avishai Cohen/Yonathan Avishai: Playing The Room

Avishai Cohen | Yonathan Avishai

This is a gorgeous set - another delicate exploration of brass tonality, restrained improv eloquence and quiet empathy from the...

Reviewed in issue October/2019

Jan Garbarek-Bobo Stenson Quartet: Witchi-Tai-To

Jan Garbarek | Jon Christensen | Bobo Stenson | Palle Danielsson

The Jan Garbarek-Bobo Stenson Quartet only made two albums – the other one was Dansere – but as Garbarek himself...

Reviewed in issue October/2019

Ethan Iverson Quartet/Tom Harrell: Common Practice

Ethan Iverson | Eric McPherson | Tom Harrell | Ben Street

Former Bad Plus pianist Ethan Iverson notes that when he first came to New York from Wisconsin as an 18...

Reviewed in issue October/2019

Paul Motian: Tribute

Paul Metzke | Carlos Ward | Sam Brown | Paul Motian | Charlie Haden

A product of what I think was Manfred Eicher's second trip to New York for the purposes of recording, which...

Reviewed in issue October/2019

Gianluigi Trovesi/Gianni Coscia: La Misteriosa Musica Della Regina Loana

Gianluigi Trovesi | Gianni Coscia

One of Italy's most influential progressive jazz musicians, Gianluigi Trovesi has always drawn from a rich vein of Italian tradition...

Reviewed in issue October/2019

Enrico Rava: Easy Living

Stefano Bollani | Rosario Bonaccorso | Gianluca Petrella | Enrico Rava | Roberto Gatto

There's no downside to being a Miles Davis disciple, if you can do something as personal with that sound as...

Reviewed in issue October/2019

Maria Farantouri/Cihan Türkoğlu: Beyond The Borders

The Greek protest singer's compositions for sextet using traditional instruments are ethereal, trance-like twists on her roots-based traditions as well...

Reviewed in issue October/2019

Bill Connors: Of Mist And Melting

Jan Garbarek | Bill Connors | Gary Peacock | Jack DeJohnette

It was around 1974 that the ex-Return to Forever guitarist Bill Connors made the change from electric to acoustic, and...

Reviewed in issue October/2019

John Abercrombie/Marc Johnson/Peter Erskine: Live At The Nightstage, Boston

Marc Johnson | John Abercrombie | Peter Erskine

Abercrombie was too modest a musician to have a ‘pomp’, but hellfire, on this live recording he was in, let...

Reviewed in issue September/2019