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Pavel Hrubý, Klaus Kugel: Going Where The Wind Takes It

Read "Going Where The Wind Takes It" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
December 15, 2025

The Czech German duo of soprano saxophonist and bass clarinetist Pavel Hruby and drummer and percussionist Klaus Kugel present a potent example of improvised dialogue on their live album Going Where the Wind Takes It. Recorded at the 'Jazz Goes to Town festival' in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic in October 2019, the session finds two masterful improvisers at the height of their collaborative powers. The average track length is 3:31, which keeps the energy taut and the improvisational ...

Album Review

Michel Sajrawy: Floating City

Read "Floating City" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal
March 9, 2017

In his ongoing quest to create a singular jazz alignment bridging traditional and contemporary music of his homeland, Israeli guitarist Michel Sajrawy explores the multicultural background of the city of Nazareth, in Floating City. Though Jerusalem gets all the headlines and global attention, Nazareth stands apart as a city epitomizing co-existence in a region ravaged by religious strife, and turmoil. With his previous releases exposing a western slant on Arabic maqam music, this record has Sajrawy burrowing into ...

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Pawel Kaczmarczyk Audiofeeling Trio & Mr Krime: Vars & Kaper:Deconstruction

Read "Vars & Kaper:Deconstruction" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
December 29, 2016

Doubtless some were surprised when pianist/composer Pawel Kaczmarczyk left ACT Records after the ambitious Complexity in Simplicity (2009). However, the decision has perhaps proven to be a musically astute one, given the stunning statement from Kaczmarczyk's Audiofeeling Trio--featuring one of Poland's top rhythm sections in Maciej Adamczak and Dawid Fortuna--that was Something Personal (Hevhetia, 2015). Here, the same line-up is augmented by Mr. Krime (Wojceich Dlugosz) on turntables and electronics in a powerful reimagining of Bronislaw Kaper and Henryk Vars' ...

Album Review

Pawel Kaczmarczyk Audiofeeling Trio: Something Personal

Read "Something Personal" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
January 3, 2016

For fans of Pawel Kaczmarczyk it's been a lengthy wait for a follow-up to Complexity in Simplicity (ACT Music, 2009), his sole recording for Siggi Loch's label. Six years seems like too long a gap for such a prodigiously talented performer and composer but this extended stewing period sees the Krakow pianist return in absolutely splendid form with Something Personal, his fourth album as a leader. On Complexity in Simplicity Kaczmarczyk was bursting with ideas, harnessing a dozen of Poland's ...

Album Review

Franz Hautzinger / Julo Fujak / Zsolt Sörés: Live in Brussels

Read "Live in Brussels" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 6, 2014

This meeting of three distinct European sound sculptors--Austrian Franz Hautzinger on quarter-tone trumpet, Slovakian Julo Fujak on prepared piano, bowed bass guitar and objects, and Hungarian Zsolt Sörés on viola and electronics--was recorded live at Studio Odeon 120 in Brussels in November 2011. It features this occasional trio searching for fresh, intuitive codes of making music. The highly original manners of producing and shaping sounds of these three musicians and their different conceptions of time, space ...

Album Review

Ofir Shwartz Trio: Shades of Fish

Read "Shades of Fish" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 27, 2013

On his sophomore release, Israeli pianist Ofir Shwartz leads a new trio comprised with Israeli double bassist Gal Shaya and Slovenian drummer Gasper Bertoncelj. This release features Shwartz's progression as a composer and bandleader since his debut release, Earlier in time (sHmoo Records, 2010). Shwartz's vocabulary draws inspiration from modern jazz-- mainly in its myriad lyrical incarnations, pop songs, and progressive and heavy rock. His gift to sketch highly melodic themes is apparent throughout this recording. His trio ...

Album Review

Erland Dahlen / Hallvard Hagen / Bjorn Charles Dreyer: wESTA MAN

Read "wESTA MAN" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 6, 2013

The ambient soundscapes of the project wESTA MAN feature fascinating sounds that portray the dark world of the seas and seabed, engines, machines and ships around the Mtoni Marine Center in Zanzibar. Three Norwegian sound experimentalists devised this project, drummer Erland Dahlen, member of the Nils Petter Molvær Trio, who released last year an excellent solo album, Rolling Bomber (Hubro music, 2012), free lance guitarist Bjorn Charles Dreyer, who recorded two duo albums with Dahlen (This is not Sweden and ...

Album Review

Otto Hejnic Trio: One

by Bruce Lindsay
November 23, 2013

The Otto Hejnic Trio is that relatively unusual creature, a drummer-led piano trio. The group hails from the Czech Republic where One, its debut, was recorded in late 2011. It's an impressive first release. The trio--Hejnic, Ondrej Krajňák on piano and Josef Fečo on double bass--proves to be a tight and dynamic unit. The music, all Hejnic's original tunes, displays straight-ahead, Latin and European classical influences combined to create an album of varied moods and tempos performed with a consistently ...