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John Dikeman: No Kings
by John Sharpe
Recorded live in 2022, No Kings documents a volatile meeting between a formidable European horn partnership and American free jazz royalty. In 2015, expat American saxophonist John Dikeman initiated a trio with bassist William Parker and drummer Hamid Drake. Five years later, he invited Portuguese trumpeter Luis Vicente to join them, resulting in the quartet heard ...
Kerry Politzer: Alternate Route
by Paul Rauch
Pianist Kerry Politzer had released eight albums before Alternate Route (Whirlwind, 2025), though to many jazz listeners they essentially flew under the radar. Politzer is a Portland, Oregon-based musician on the faculty at the esteemed jazz studies program at Portland State. With this, her ninth offering, more attention and accolades are bound to come her way. ...
Convergence: Reckless Meter
by Pierre Giroux
Colorado has long nurtured a quietly serious jazz scene, and Reckless Meter makes a compelling case that Convergence ranks among its most seasoned examples. This is not a band formed for convenience or novelty; it is an ensemble built through years of shared bandstands, rehearsals, and the kind of musical debates that foster trust. Pianist Eric ...
Luke Bergman, Jason Burger, Martin Nevin: Luke Bergman, Jason Burger, Martin Nevin
by Max Kutner
Centering the theme of an album around the sum of its performers is hardly a new idea but one that nevertheless yields innumerable possibilities of expression as personalities will always be unique. The dynamic between Luke Bergman, Jason Burger, and Martin Nevin on this self-titled recording is no exception to that rule but speaks to the ...
Otherlands Trio with Stephan Crump, Darius Jones, Eric McPherson: Star Mountain
by Don Phipps
The Otherlands Trio's Star Mountain presents five cerebral improvisations that unfold along abstract lines, utilizing staggered syncopation that seamlessly blends with nuanced passages, both soft and loud. The album feels at times like it will break into something more freewheeling, but the musicians instead choose patient moves that deliver creative phrases filled with unexpected twists and ...
Alexi Tuomarila: Departing the Wasteland
by Geannine Reid
Finnish pianist and composer Alexi Tuomarila's fourth album on Edition Records marks a new blending of his long-standing trio with expansive orchestrations and subtle electronic textures with Departing the Wasteland. Anchored by his collaboration with bassist Mats Eilertsen and drummer Olavi Louhivuori, the album reflects the trio's dynamic chemistry after two decades of explorations, which now ...
Sigurd Hole: Elvesang
by Tyran Grillo
Sigurd Hole's Elvesang enacts the crossing of a threshold where music loosens its claim on sound alone and begins to behave like weather, memory, and landscape thinking aloud. Recorded in the small Ytre Rendal church near Lake Lomnessjøen, not far from Hole's childhood home in Rendalen, the album carries the unmistakable feeling of return. Not nostalgia ...
Gulliver + Roberto Ottaviano: The Billia Session
by Neri Pollastri
Quattro musicisti eccezionali, ai vertici della nostra musica creativa; un'intesa affinata attraverso collaborazioni trasversali; un'occasione ideale per incontrarsi; un programma condiviso di musiche splendide e significative: quando una serie di eccellenti tessere come queste hanno modo di trovare perfettamente il loro posto, il mosaico che ne vien fuori non può che essere un piccolo capolavoro.
Marco Centasso: Um/Welt
by Neri Pollastri
Secondo album per il contrabbassista veneziano Marco Centasso, il quale, mostrando una creatività e uno spirito che già trasparivano al suo esordio, si spinge in direzioni molto diverse dal precedente Hidden Rooms. Ispirato infatti dal concetto che titola il lavoro --Umwelt in tedesco significa “ambiente," ma anche “mondo circostante" e, in biologia, lo spazio d'interazione di ...
Sigurd Hole Trio: Encounters
by Tyran Grillo
Encounters unfolds as a single, patiently breathed arc rather than a sequence of events. From the outset, the trio situates itself firmly in the world, not observing it from a distance but moving within it, attentive to texture, ritual, and change. Sigurd Hole's compositional voice is quietly astonishing in this regard and finds life-giving partnership in ...
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