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Frank Swart: This Is The One! (Raison D'êTre)
by Kyle Simpler
There is a common misconception that musical artists who release albums usually tour to promote them. While this may be true for the most part, there are exceptions. San Francisco-based bassist and composer Frank Swart is quick to point out that artists such as The Beatles were more focused on spending time in the studio creating albums than ...
Jun Iida: Bellflower
by Jack Bowers
Bellflower, trumpeter Jun Iida's second recording, is a cordial and even-tempered survey of nine of his original compositions and one by the late Japanese composer Nujabes, ably performed by Iida's talented sextet with spoken word by Zelda Harris on Iida's heartfelt response to warfare and its anguish, “Will They Remember?" While Iida is a ...
Luca Curcio: La BOMBA
by Vincenzo Roggero
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! ...
Eleonora Strino: Lumithia
by Marco Iacoboni
Ci sono dischi che si ascoltano e altri che si lasciano abitare, come Lumithia, il nuovo lavoro di Eleonora Strino. Tredici brani, il suono di una sola chitarra. Nessuna sovraincisione. Se l'album precedente, Matilde (CAM Jazz, 2025), in quartetto, apriva il percorso della Strino come compositrice, Lumithia ne rappresenta l'approdo più intimo. Tredici brani, ...
Nicholas Payton / Butcher Brown: A Supreme Blue
by Jack Kenny
Is it an act of bravery or simple foolhardiness to revisit two of the most revered albums in jazz history--records that transcend popularity and occupy a near-mythic place in the music's collective psyche? In this centennial moment for both Miles Davis and John Coltrane, the question carries not only artistic weight but commercial implications as well. ...
Charles Chen: The Long Way Home
by Jack Bowers
The Long Way Home is a fascinating album, not so much for the music alone--even though that is first-class--but for the lengthy interviews with the Charles Chen quartet's bassist and drummer, 98-year-old Bill Crow and 91-year-old Steve Little, respectively, who still anchor a regular weekly gig at Smalls Jazz Club in New York City.
Samuel Blaser Quartet: Rosina
by Glenn Astarita
Samuel Blaser has established himself as one of Europe's most compelling trombonists, a Swiss musician whose artistic identity has been shaped as much by formal study as by the Italian folk traditions that surrounded him in childhood. In recent years, he has spoken openly about reconnecting with those roots, particularly the songs his grandmother sang, simple ...
Rodrigo Amado / Joe McPhee / Kent Kessler / Chris Corsano: Wailers
by John Sharpe
Wailers captures Portuguese saxophonist Rodrigo Amado's This Is Our Language quartet at a fascinating juncture, revealing fresh dimensions within one of his most compelling working bands. An unchanged lineup features reedman Joe McPhee (restricting himself solely to tenor), bassist Kent Kessler and drummer Chris Corsano alongside the leader's tenor saxophone. Recorded in a Lisbon studio in ...
Charles Lloyd: Sangam & Friends
by Doug Collette
With the release of Sangam & Friends, saxophonist-flutist Charles Lloyd pays homage to his kindred spirit and longtime collaborator, tabla master Zakir Hussain. Not that any reaffirmation was necessary based on their prior efforts together, but this album vividly depicts the deep musical affinity between the two extraordinary musicians as well as their sympathetic associates.
Skúli Sverrisson with Bill Frisell: For All Your Flowers
by Neil Duggan
For All Your Flowers is the second collaboration between Icelandic bassist and composer Skuli Sverrisson and guitarist Bill Frisell, following Strata (Newvelle Records, 2018). Surprisingly, despite appearing on more than 100 recordings, Sverrisson remains little-known, while his partner here has spent decades cultivating one of the most recognizable guitar sounds in jazz, drawing as naturally from ...
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