Shalosh: Broken Balance

Gadi Stern

This Tel Aviv piano trio have found their natural home on EST's label, ACT, as they regularly power up rock...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Frank Woeste: Pocket Rhapsody II

Frank Woeste

Pianist Frank Woeste won praise for his first Pocket Rhapsody album in 2016. Now he's back with Pocket Rhapsody II,...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Nesrine

A mesmerising young Algerian- French cellist-vocalist with a dynamic sense of spatial awareness in her music, with its emphasis on...

Reviewed in issue December/2020

Adam Bałdych/Vincent Courtois/Rogier Telderman: Clouds

Adam Bałdych

“On this album I wanted to play less than ever before,” says Polish violin virtuoso Adam Baédych. By which he...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Marius Neset/Danish Radio Big Band/Miho Hazama: Tributes

Marius Neset

With 2016's Snowmelt and 2019's Viaduct (both featuring the London Sinfonietta), the Norwegian reeds virtuoso Marius Neset emerged as a...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Michael Wollny: Mondenkind

Michael Wollny

Michael Wollny, now a family man who teaches in academe, put lockdown to good use in April with this exhilarating...

Reviewed in issue November/2020

Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic X: East-West

Aram Lee | Nesrine Belmokh | Yoon Jeong Heo | Majid Bekkas | NES Trio | Nguyên Lê | Jean Oh

When an instrument not usually associated with improvisation is introduced into jazz, it is usually regarded as something of a...

Reviewed in issue August/2020

Laila Biali: Out of Dust

Rich Brown | Larnell Lewis | Laila Biali | Glenn Patscha | Ben Wittman

I was a big fan of Laila Biali's 2018 self-titled debut on ACT – for which she bagged Vocal Jazz...

Reviewed in issue June/2020

Jazzrausch Bigband: Beethoven's Breakdown

Jutta Keeß | Angela Avetisyan | Heinrich Wulff | Roman Sladek | Daniel Klingl | Patricia Römer | Raphael Huber | Severin Krieger | Julius Braun | Fredeik Mademann

Beethoven was a raver. You knew that already, of course, but, as if to allow you to hear and feel...

Reviewed in issue June/2020

Wolfgang Haffner: Kind of Tango

Wolfgang Haffner | Christopher Dell | Bill Evans | Vincent Peirani | Guest Alma Naidu | Lars Nilsson | Simon Oslender | Lars Danielsson | Ulf Wakenius | Sebastian Studnitzky

First there was Kind of Cool (2015). Next there was Kind of Spain (2017). And now, to complete the trilogy,...

Reviewed in issue May/2020