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It’s not hard to hear why pianist Clara Haberkamp is making waves on the German jazz scene. Plateaux is her new release, and her first that features Norwegian drummer Jarle Vespestad alongside her long-term collaborator Oliver Potratz on bass. The [...]
The steady, resonant, metallic tick of a cymbal; ghostly ripples from a guitar; a distant piano phrase that sounds like a dripping icicle; then softly, a swelling call from a saxophone with a dreamlike vocal quality. It’s an arresting opening [...]
It just took a swaying bass line that immediately made bodies move in sympathy, pattering brushes on the snare leaning on the offbeat, a rising and falling pentatonic pattern with trumpet and trombone blending with a signature harmony, and the [...]
Guitarist Jakub Klimiuk’s quintet album (un)balanced announces itself with twenty-seven seconds of piping, squawking bubbling arpeggios from a saxophone that pause, as if for thought, then launch off in a new direction, before finding a satisfying resolution. It’s the first [...]
It was a minute or two before the instantly recognisable sound of Andy Sheppard’s tenor drifted across the stage at the start of the gig on the last day of the Bristol Jazz Festival. There was an almost audible collective [...]
There is a moment in The ‘Pretty’ Road, a piece from the Maria Schneider Orchestra’s 2007 recording Sky Blue that never fails to make me catch my breath and experience a little surge of joy like an overdue homecoming. Gorgeous, [...]
