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Omrum: Bringer of Light
by Glenn Astarita
The Copenhagen-based quartet Omrum, comprising a tier of top-flight Scandinavian musicians, delivers its debut with Bringer of Light. The album captures trumpeter Erik Kimestad, trombonist Mads Hyhne, bassist Richard Andersson, and drummer Jakob Hoyer moving fluidly between composed structures and collective improvisation, displaying both admirable restraint and mutual trust. The opening “Intro" and “Blues ...
Glenn Astarita's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025
by Glenn Astarita
Another year, another reminder that jazz refuses to stay in its lane. The ten albums that grabbed me most in 2025 don't follow any neat narrative or trend--they're just the records I kept coming back to, the ones that made me hit repeat or sit up and pay closer attention. Some are from veterans who still ...
Norbert Stein Pata Trio: Planetentochter
by Glenn Astarita
In the ever-expanding cosmos of European free jazz, Norbert Stein's Pata Trio arrives like a meteor--compact, unpredictable and tinged with pata-physical whimsy. Recorded in late 2024 in Cologne, the album runs just under 40 minutes across six tracks, a tightly plotted interstellar voyage led by Stein's tenor saxophone, alongside pianist Uwe Oberg and drummer Jörg Fischer. ...
Alex Skolnick Trio: Prove You're Not a Robot
by Glenn Astarita
Few musicians have leapt the chasm between thrash metal and jazz with the audacity and grace of Alex Skolnick. Having made his name with Bay Area thrashers Testament in their Big Four-era ascent, Skolnick's departure from metal in the early '90s was not burnout, but a transformation fueled by his pursuit of a BFA in jazz ...
EH3: Close to Nothing
by Glenn Astarita
EH3, comprising guitarist Erland Helbø, bassist Frode Berg, and drummer Erik Smith, presents a vibrant fusion of jazz-rock on Close to Nothing. Recorded in January 2025 at Schizophonia Studio in Jessheim, Norway, the album draws from American traditions of blues, soul, and funk, while infusing Scandinavian precision and exploratory spirit. The group demonstrates tight ensemble work, ...
ErbtMäderAmBerg? & Lehn: In Echoes' Shadow
by Glenn Astarita
The Swiss German quartet ErbMäderAmBerg? & Thomas Lehn offers a striking and complex exploration of electroacoustic improvisation with In Echoes' Shadow,, released in May 2025 on Lucerne-based Veto Records. The ensemble brings together three of Switzerland's most adventurous bass clarinetists--Christoph Erb (Veto Records founder), Elio Amberg, and Niklaus Mader--alongside German electronic music veteran Thomas Lehn on ...
Satoko Fujii Quartet: Burning Wick
by Glenn Astarita
Few pianists alive match the relentless invention of Satoko Fujii. Born in Tokyo in 1958, she trained classically before studying jazz at Berklee and the New England Conservatory under mentors such as Paul Bley and Ran Blake. Since the 1990s she has released more than 100 albums, often marking her birthday with a new project that ...
Nick Storring: Mirante
by Glenn Astarita
Nick Storring titles his ninth album with a Portuguese word meaning “lookout," though the music rarely lets you settle into any one view. His connection to Brazil is indirect--two tracks were written before he ever visited--but the album carries the energy, textures, and rhythms of a place half-remembered, half-imagined. Instead of leaning on familiar Brazilian cues ...
Roy Powell - Lorenzo Feliciati - Lucrezio de Seta: Aria
by Glenn Astarita
Roy Powell has been the quiet man in the engine room for years. British by birth and Norwegian by choice, he once spent serious time as Anthony Braxton's pianist on those wild European tours where the music looked like geometry homework, and the applause was optional. He later slipped into the electric Norwegian wave, trading greasy ...
Pavel Hrubý, Klaus Kugel: Going Where The Wind Takes It
by Glenn Astarita
The Czech German duo of soprano saxophonist and bass clarinetist Pavel Hruby and drummer and percussionist Klaus Kugel present a potent example of improvised dialogue on their live album Going Where the Wind Takes It. Recorded at the 'Jazz Goes to Town festival' in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic in October 2019, the session finds two masterful ...
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