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Shabaka, who will be at the Royal Festival Hall on 30 November, is “an emblematic artist for the age.” Much of the well-deserved attention for ‘Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace’, the debut solo album by Shabaka – the artist [...]
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Admirers of Tord Gustavsen’s breakthrough series of trio albums beginning with the inspired ECM debut, Changing Places in 2003, will find much to please them in this very enjoyable continued return to the [...]
This debut release by the sui generis trio of Alice Zawadzki (voice, violin), Fred Thomas (piano, vielle, drums) and Misha Mullov-Abbado (double bass) is an enticing yet resolutely high-toned survey of songs from varying traditions, including the lost language of [...]
This is the debut release for a remarkable document of a remarkable band, complete with cover art by the great drummer and jazz iconoclast Tony Oxley, who died last last year aged 85. It was recorded at the Ruhr Jazz [...]
It’s a slam dunk. By general agreement Wayne Shorter was one of the greatest instrumentalists and composers in the history of jazz. Equally, his final quartet, with pianist Danilo Pérez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade is accepted to [...]
Like many who first heard the voice of Milton Nascimento on Wayne Shorter’s 1975 album Native Dancer, it was a moment hard to forget: that infinitely flexible, highly-pitched instrument whose sensitivity and sensuality seemed burned into the consonants of each [...]
Named after a magic number with both mathematical and mystical significance, 137 is what used to be called a supergroup playing a very contemporary and experimental update on what used to be called jazz-rock. Adrian Utley of Portishead plays guitar; [...]
Recorded at Munich’s ‘schwere reiter’ performance space in February 2022, this inspired duo album reunites the extraordinary Catalan pianist Jordina Millà live in Munich with the equally inventive double bassist Barry Guy, a heroic figure from the first generation of [...]
