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Pete Mills: This Is Now
by Jack Bowers
As usual, swing is king on This Is Now, Canadian-born tenor saxophonist and composer Pete Mills' sixth recording as leader, one wherein the high-powered opening number (and title song) sets the pace for what is to come on this bright and upbeat session while showing that Mills and his quintet mean serious business. As ...
The Dam Jawn featuring Jeremy Pelt: Triphasic
by Artur Moral
Philadelphians know 'jawn' well--a term embedded in their local slang that is not easily grasped by the uninitiated. So what are Joan Fort and Martin Diaz (two Catalans), Philip Lewin (a German), and Nitin Parree and Frank Groenendijk (two Dutch men) doing forming a band whose name fuses that Philly word with a wink at the ...
Dorota Piotrowska & Sound Circle feat. Greg Osby: Voices of Human Consciousness
by Alberto Bazzurro
La quarantaduenne batterista polacca Dorota Piotrowska riunisce in questo ambizioso album un supergruppo in cui spicca il sax alto di Greg Osby, accanto ad altri strumentisti tutti di livello dal buono in su, che --ciascuno con le proprie specificità--contribuiscono alla riuscita del lavoro, composito, articolato, fra episodi più squisitamente jazzistici e altri in cui i luoghi ...
Ted Rosenthal Trio: The Good Old Days
by Dan McClenaghan
In 2024, Ted Rosenthal dove deeply into the piano trio tradition. High Standards, The Ted Rosenthal Songbook and Classics Reimagined: Impromptu were all released in 2025, all on the TRM Music label. The Good Old Days, the fourth album from those bountiful sessions, released in 2026, presents Rosenthal's vision via multiple moods and thematic twists as ...
Peter Erskine: Peregrine
by Jack Bowers
Drummer Peter Erskine, who began his productive career with the Stan Kenton Orchestra in the last century, is a master craftsman who is comfortably at home in groups large or small. Along the way, he has recorded more than forty-five albums as leader or co-leader of various ensembles, always embracing his assignment with proficiency and taste. ...
Bobby Naughton: Housatonic Rumble - Live at Charlie's Tap
by John Sharpe
Vibraphonist Bobby Naughton helms a finely attuned trio on Housatonic Rumble, a 1985 live recording drawn from previously unissued tapes discovered in his archive. Although he worked extensively with edge-loving adventurers such as Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith, and co-founded the Connecticut-based Creative Musicians' Improvisers Forum, this live set affirms a commitment to accessibility which ...
Brian Dickinson & the Penderecki String Quartet: October Songs
by Jack Bowers
Contemporary jazz meets classical chamber music (with rather mixed results) on October Songs, the 2026 recording by Canadian pianist and composer Brian Dickinson and his trio who share center stage with the Ontario-based Penderecki String Quartet. There are at least two ways to appraise this meticulously planned and well-meaning partnership. On the one hand, ...
Andrew MacKelvie: Many Worlds
by Glenn Astarita
In 2012, Andrew MacKelvie was struck by a drunk driver while cycling through Halifax. He broke his back, shattered his knee, and landed on his saxophone case, which likely kept his head off the pavement. What followed were months of immobility and, eventually, a compositional fixation on that sliver of time when everything might have turned ...
Joan Fort: Hangin' In
by Jack Bowers
Hangin' In is the second recording under his name by Spanish-born, Netherlands-based guitarist Joan Fort who shows on every one of the album's nine radiant and alluring themes--six of which he wrote--why his star is rapidly rising in the jazz world at large. Fort, who was not yet thirty years old when the album ...
Oscar Peterson: The Oscar Peterson Trio at Baker's Keyboard Lounge
by Mike Jurkovic
If any one player fills a soul to the brim with unbridled joy, Oscar Peterson--his whole 'tude, his smile, his swing--is that grand soul and our grand fortune. Put on any of Peterson's archival releases-- Around the World, Con Alma: The Oscar Petersen Trio--Live In Lugano, 1964, or City Lights: Live in Munich 1994 (Two Lions ...
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