Jazz Articles about Alex Zethson

About Alex Zethson

Album Review

Alberto Pinton Relentless: Allt Större Klarhet

Read "Allt Större Klarhet" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
June 30, 2025

Sa molto di Jimmy Giuffre la suite in tre movimenti che dà il titolo--occupandone il cuore--a questo nuovo, notevole lavoro del polistrumentista veneziano Alberto Pinton, ormai da tempo immemorabile di stanza a Stoccolma, dove ha di fatto costruito la sua intera carriera, forte di una buona quindicina di album a proprio nome, tendenzialmente, come si dice in questi casi, uno meglio dell'altro. Di Giuffre, Pinton non condivide magari la monogamia nei confronti del clarinetto canonico, cosa che proprio ...

Radio & Podcasts

Alex Zethson, Maria Manousaki, Simona de Rosa & more

by Marek J. Śmietański
May 15, 2025

Our 108th episode features new releases from European artists (with a small annex to March 2025). The broadcast is dominated by Scandinavian jazz, as many as half of the selected albums were recorded by artists from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. But that's not all, as there will also be tracks from albums released by musicians from France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Scotland and Switzerland. Podcast in Polish (Bemowo FM radio broadcast). Enjoy the show. Playlist Intro: Hank ...

Album Review

Angles + Elle-Kari With Strings: The Death Of Kalypso

Read "The Death Of Kalypso" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
May 18, 2024

As a genre, jazz-opera is thinly populated. The recorded archive is marked more by quality than quantity, with albums by Mike Westbrook and Kate Westbrook, Carla Bley and Charlie Haden to the fore. But the best ever jazz-opera, in this parish anyway, predates anything by these musicians. Composer Todd Matshikiza and lyricist Pat Williams' King Kong premiered in the Great Hall of the University of Johannesburg in February 1959 to rapturous reviews, and went on to romp through sold-out proscenium-arch ...

Album Review

Ahanes: Petrichor

Read "Petrichor" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
December 13, 2023

This European sextet, with members from Athens and Stockholm, dishes out an absorbing journey through diverse soundscapes which blend genres effortlessly throughout the four tracks. Hence, the album immerses the listener in a rich tapestry of sonic exploration.Ahanes confidently navigate through diverse musical territories, seamlessly weaving together disparate elements of jazz, electronica, and ambient sounds. This amalgamation creates a wraithlike stratosphere which feels familiar and refreshingly novel, noticeable on the artists' layered and bursting cover of John Coltrane's ...

Album Review

Vilhelm Bromander: In This Forever Unfolding Moment

Read "In This Forever Unfolding Moment" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
September 15, 2023

Ornette Coleman's haunting “Lonely Woman" is becoming something of a 2023 soundtrack. At the time of writing, we have had memorable versions from Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble on Spirit Gatherer (Spirit Muse), and Kurt Elling and Charlie Hunter on The Iridescent Spree (Edition), plus another couple of efforts about which the less said the better. Here comes a third boss edition. Sort of. “Låt Våra Tårar Bli Våra Vapen," which opens side two of Vilhelm Bromander's ...