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Album Review

Luca Curcio: La BOMBA

Read "La BOMBA" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
July 27, 2026

La BOMBA è l'album di esordio di Luca Curcio, contrabbassista, compositore, produttore italiano che vive e opera tra Berlino e Copenhagen (disco registrato nella capitale danese, post-produzione e registrazioni aggiuntive nella capitale tedesca, ensemble italo-islando-norvegese: Francesco Bigoni (sassofono tenore), Sölvi Kolbeinsson (sassofono contralto), Erik Kimestad Pedersen (tromba), Simon Olderskog Albertsen (batteria). E che esordio! Già dai primi secondi si intuisce come il ritmo sia destinato ad essere tra i protagonisti principali dell'incisione, con i fiati che si muovono ...

Album Review

Kārlis Auziņš Double Trio: Equilibrium Suite

Read "Equilibrium Suite" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
July 8, 2025

Latvian saxophonist Kārlis Auziņš would never, we can assume, claim that his Equilibrium Suite stands as the equal of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1964). His reverence for Coltrane's seminal work is too deep. Still, listeners may find themselves drawing a natural connection--celebrating Auziņš's own modern spiritual statement, one forged with sincerity, originality and purpose. Auziņš may be most familiar to jazz audiences through his work with the exploratory quartet Mount Meander, which released two albums: Mount Meander (Clean ...

Liner Notes

Espen Berg Trio: Free To Play

by Chris May
February 3, 2023

If you ask a jazz fan to name the greatest piano-trio albums ever made, the probability is that their top twenty choices will include most, if not all, of the following: Erroll Garner's Concert By The Sea (Columbia, 1955), Ahmad Jamal's But Not For Me (Argo, 1958), Bill Evans's Sunday At The Village Vanguard (Riverside, 1961), Keith Jarrett's Standards Volume 2 (ECM, 1983) and Brad Mehldau's The Art Of The Trio Vol. 1 (Warner Bros., 1996), or in the cases ...

Album Review

Wako: Wako

by Mark Sullivan
March 30, 2020

Bands will often self-title their debut album, as a kind of calling card to the world at large. But doing so on a fourth album implies a serious coming of age statement: this is really who we are. That is certainly the case here. Its third album, Urolige sinn (Øra Fonogram, 2018), was a blend of composed and improvised music: a collective voice, with a rare concision and focus. This album is entirely self-composed, with the bulk of the tracks ...

Album Review

Wako: Urolige Sinn

Read "Urolige Sinn" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
December 22, 2018

Wako is a Norwegian jazz collective with a truly collective sound. Saxophonist Martin Myhre Olsen--heard as a leader on MMO Ensemble's Any Day Now (Øra Fonogram, 2018)--and pianist Kjetil Mulelid--leader of the Kjetil Mulelid Trio's Not Nearly Enough To Buy A House (Rune Grammofon, 2017)--each contribute three compositions. But the group identity is equally present on the jointly created tracks that dominate this program, their third album. Opener “Jernvilje" is a brief, atmospheric rubato exercise by the whole ...