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Chuck Bergeron: Bass & Face
by Pierre Giroux
There is a certain confidence that comes with age and experience. It is the kind that allows a musician to gather friends, trust their instincts, and let the music tell its own story. Bassist Chuck Bergeron's Bass and Face feels exactly like that. As one of Florida's long-admired and versatile players, Bergeron proves himself to be ...
Ize Trio: Global Prayer
by Alberto Bazzurro
Giunto al suo secondo album, l'Ize Trio, autodefinitosi, programmaticamente, “un ensemble musicale multiculturale che si propone di fondere la forma d'arte americana del jazz con le tradizioni mediorientali," sembra in realtà muoversi soprattutto lungo la prima delle due dorsali, infiorettando il proprio discorso di influssi effettivamente provenienti dalla seconda specificatamente nel quarto brano, “Snaefellsjokull," stante l'aggiunta ...
Victor Vieira–Branco's Bark Culture: The Giant Is Awkward
by Glenn Astarita
Vibraphonist and composer Victor Vieira-Branco has been quietly building something with Bark Culture since 2021, and the Philadelphia-based quartet is no longer content to keep it quiet. The Giant Is Awkward is the group's second album, expanding the core trio of Vieira-Branco, double bassist John Moran, and drummer Joey Sullivan with the addition of pianist and ...
Nubiyan Twist: Chasing Shadows
by Karan Khosla
Since emerging from the Leeds College of Music scene in the early 2010s, Nubiyan Twist have grown into one of the more visible large ensembles within the modern UK jazz and Afrobeat scene, building a reputation through international touring and major festival appearances including WOMAD, Glastonbury and a recent appearance at Lollapalooza India. Led by guitarist, producer ...
Alexander Hawkins & Taylor Ho Bynum: A Near Permanent State Of Wonder
by John Sharpe
Nearly two decades after first crossing paths in the transatlantic Convergence Quartet, cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum and pianist Alexander Hawkins reunite on A Near Permanent State Of Wonder, a recording that finds their rapport undimmed and their curiosity intact. In the intervening period Hawkins has become one of the most in demand pianists in Europe, as ...
Rin Seo: City Suite
by Angelo Leonardi
Il nome di Rin Seo si aggiunge al numero delle talentose musiciste di origine asiatica che nell'ultimo ventennio hanno mostrato d'aver creativamente assimilato l'idioma musicale afro-americano. Tra esse non mancano le orchestratrici che ottengono risultati eccellenti anche grazie alla solida preparazione negli studi classici. Nata in Corea 36 anni fa, Rin Seo s'è laureata in ...
Tyshawn Sorey: Members... Don't!
by Troy Dostert
One of the most welcome developments in twenty-first century jazz has been drummer Tyshawn Sorey's enthusiastic turn toward the jazz canon. While he had already established himself convincingly as one of the premier figures in creative music on immersive, challenging works such as The Inner Spectrum of Variables (Pi Recordings, 2016) and Verisimilitude (Pi Recordings, 2017), ...
Pedro Molina: A Name I Knew
by Scott Lichtman
It is a rare occurrence when multiple jazz skills are executed at such high level that the experience transcends music and becomes a moment of exhilaration and reflection. Such a moment exists with acoustic bassist Pedro Molina's quartet album, A Name I Knew. It balances free improvisation with an impression of careful scoring, mesmerizing personal voices ...
Janel Leppin: Ensemble Volcanic Ash: Pluto In Aquarius
by Don Ball
Janel Leppin's title choice for her 2026 Ensemble Volcanic Ash (EVA) recording gives a hint of what kind of music to expect. Pluto being in Aquarius is a momentous sign, one of change and tension, and lasts 20 years (we are currently in one such phase). The last time Pluto was in Aquarius was 1777 to ...
Fie Schouten, Vincent Courtois, Sofia Borges, Pierre Baux: Open Space
by Alberto Bazzurro
Come si dice, tutto il mondo è paese, e quindi anche nella lingua di Racine e Molière--peraltro con titoli tutti rigorosamente in inglese--ci giunge (non è la prima volta, ovviamente) un album in cui suoni di più o meno diretta emanazione jazzistica s'intersecano con la parola detta, di più o meno alta ambizione poetica. E come ...
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