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Cassie Kinoshi is becoming one of the most important alumnae of the Tomorrow’s Warriors group of young musicians. She has been a member of Nerija and Kokoroko, but is now focusing on her role as a composer. She has been commissioned by [...]
There’s something about the career path of Munich-based saxophonist Moritz Stahl which speaks both to his great musical curiosity and patience. Gaining valuable experience as a member of the techno-influenced Jazzrausch Bigband, Stahl is also a regular collaborator with close [...]
Joe Lovano’s work with Marilyn Crispell and Carmen Castaldi has been one of his main creative outlets now since 2018, with a trio of lauded albums on ECM showing three masters deepening their interaction. While Crispell brings capacious piano technique [...]
The Hague’s Rewire festival is a trusted bastion of the robustly contemporary that sells out on tickets without selling out on credibility. In its thirteenth edition over three days in twenty venues, headliners included Autechre, Oneohtrix Point Never, SUNN O))), [...]
This was so much more than a concert. It was a true celebration of the life and work of the great Bobby Wellins, with friends and family in attendance. The audience also included bassist Adrian Kendon (from Bobby’s Quartet) and [...]
“What should a modern day jazz song look like?” was the conundrum Kazuo Ishiguro had to wrestle when Stacey Kent first asked him to pen some original lyrics. The genial Nobel and Booker laureate confessed his initial trepidation as he [...]
From Loose Tubes, Perfect Houseplants and Polar Bear to session work with Prefab Sprout, Robert Wyatt and Radiohead, saxophonist Mark Lockheart has been at the centre of British music for four decades. Now a mainstay of the Edition Records stable, [...]
In great contrast to Arve Henriksen’s last ECM album as a leader, the very maximalist (for him) “Cartography” from 2010, “Touch of Time”, a co-led duo with Dutch pianist Harmen Fraanje, is a series of beautiful miniatures. Over ten delicate [...]
Here’s a surprise: a band based in Berlin performing a programme based mainly on the poetry of Wilfred Owen at a club in Vienna… But perhaps no more surprising than the fact that the instigator of a recent Netflix film [...]
REVIEWS OF: Bergamo, located some 40 km (25 mi) northeast of Milan, is a beautiful city for a jazz festival. Or rather cities plural, as the medieval and fortified Città Alta (‘upper city’) located on a hill is very different [...]
