Under the leadership of composer and multi-instrumentalist Mak Murtić, Mimika Orchestra have carved out a distinct identity: since their founding in London (and now based in Zagreb) they mix Balkan ...
Steve Tibbetts’s new album, “Close”, his eleventh on the ECM label, is a haunting, deeply intimate statement – a twilight meditation that feels like translating shadow into sound. From the opening “We ...
From Glastonbury to Slovakia, Ari Tsugi’s latest album Ryto Vėjas ir Mėnulis (“Morning Wind and the Moon”) finds a fitting home on the adventurous Slovak imprint Sinko Records – a label celebrated for ...
Polish musician, composer and producer Marek “Latarnik” Pędziwiatr, and American-born, Stockholm-based vocalist Anthony Mills ...
Sarathy Korwar’s seventh album “There Is Beauty, There Already” is a compelling exercise in meditative rhythm and trance. In ...
Moving to São Paulo, Brazil, in the 1950s, Argentine-born saxophonist and flautist Hector Costita was quickly drawn to the ...
Chicago saxophonist, composer, and educator Sam Pilnick has been steadily carving out a space for himself in the ...
Some performances arrive decades late and still sound urgent, alive and impossible to ignore — Horace Silver’s 1965 Penthouse ...
Night Dreamer’s direct-to-disc series has always aimed to capture jazz at its rawest, with one-take performances, no edits, ...
As the 1960s gave way to the 1970s, Brazilian music was entering one of its most restless and inventive periods. The ...
Zhengtao Pan’s latest album is a bold and inspired statement. “Mirror, Floating on the Water” blends jazz and contemporary ...
Gregory Groover Jr. is a new name to me – and, I suspect, to many readers – so a little background seems appropriate. The New York-born, Boston-bred saxophonist, bandleader, composer and educator ...