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Benjamin Lackner: Spindrift
by Jack Kenny
Benjamin Lackner has a vision and his album is a coherent statement of his ideas: a radical statement of lyricism, gentleness, restraint and understatement. It was a long-time dream. For some time, Benjamin Lackner has had a wish to record with ECM. In an interview, he outlined his attempts to produce music that would ...
Kjetil Mulelid: Agoja
by Chris May
Over the course of three albums with his trio between 2019 and 2022, and the exquisitely pretty solo set Piano (Rune Grammofon, 2021), keyboardist Kjetil Mulelid has emerged as a bright new star in Norwegian jazz. His playing is vivacious, his composing melodic and his overall sound consonant but full of unexpected twists and turns. Mulelid ...
Wind And Sun
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Row My Ocean; Wind and Sun; It Walks And Talks; When The Heart Is A Moon; Hands That Held; A Child Who Exists; A Window Tells.
Sinikka Langeland: Wind And Sun
by Scott Gudell
Pause. Trust your inner self to guide you. Prepare to avoid the constant bombardment of a multitude of society's mind and body piercing assults. If you're not sure where to start, Sinikka Langeland is willing to help guide you. A master of the kantele (a Nordic instrument with similarities to plucked string instruments such as a ...
When The Heart Is The Moon
Album: Wind And Sun
By Sinikka Langeland
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 05:13
Jaga Jazzist: '94 - '14
by John Kelman
It's hard to believe that Norway's Jaga Jazzist is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, in 2014. Not that there aren't other groups that have lasted as long, but look for a group whose primary composer was just 14 when the whole thing began, find a band where five out of its eight current members were ...
Wanderlust
Label: Warner Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: Art of Resistance, Trip the Light Fantastic, Subject to Change, Promises Kept, Lullaby for Runaways, Your Latest
Comeback, Down to Earth, Steps & Stages, Angel by the Sea, Brave Souls, Nordic Noir, To the Moon And Back
Last Decade
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Where Do We Go From Here; Circular Confidence; Camino Cielo; Hung Up On That Ghost; Last
Decade; Remember This; Open Minds Lost; Emile; My People.
Dan McClenaghan's Top Jazz Recordings of 2022
by Dan McClenaghan
The top jazz recordings of 2022, in no particular order. Justin MorellExit Music For Intelligent Life On Earth Sonic Frenzy Records A provocative and beautiful guitar and drums album. Guitarist Justin Morell has teamed with drummer Mark Ferber (see postscript concerning Ferber at the end of this article) to construct ...
Benjamin Lackner: Last Decade
by Dan McClenaghan
In a 2006 interview for All About Jazz written by Joao Moriera dos Santos, pianist/keyboardist Benjamin Lackner was asked: What label would you like to be on in the near future?" He said, simply, ECM." That seemed ambitious for Lackner at that stage of his career. He was 29 years old at the time and boasted ...

