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Leigh Pilzer: Keep Holding On
by Jack Bowers
There are times when the friends you make can make a world of difference. That is certainly true of baritone saxophonist Leigh Pilzer's recording, Keep Holding On, whose trio format--admirable in its own way--is considerably enriched by a quartet of friends and colleagues whose expertise helps brighten even further five of the album's 11 already-impressive numbers. ...
Bobby Wiens: Focus
by Kyle Simpler
Even though a recording is a finished product, it still captures the feeling and intensity of the session. When players have a good working rapport, everything translates through the music. Clearly, the musicians assembled by drummer Bobby Wiens for his second album, Focus, share a strong rapport, and that chemistry is evident throughout the recording.
Peggy Lee, Julien Wilson, Theo Carbo, Dylan van der Schyff: Waiting Music
by Nenad Georgievski
Improvised music operates through a productive tension: collective intuition on one side, and the constant risk of collapse into formlessness on the other. When a group sustains that balance without resolving it into comfort, the results tend to resist easy classification. Waiting Music, the second release by the Australo-Canadian quartet Open Thread, belongs firmly in that space--an album ...
Doug MacDonald: Tribute to South Central
by Jack Bowers
Doug MacDonald, who more than likely would rather play the guitar than eat, does not like to repeat himself. With more than 30 albums under his belt, that is becoming more difficult than ever. MacDonald, nevertheless, keeps tweaking the size, makeup and experience of his various groups in an effort to produce something fresh and inviting. ...
Rich Willey: Laid Back Vol. 1, featuring John Swana
by Jack Bowers
Chicago-based trumpeter and composer Rich Willey oversees an impressive eleven-piece ensemble on Best Laid Plans, which embodies seven of his melodically enticing and rhythmically strong compositions, all neatly arranged by Wally Minko. The one clear drawback in this otherwise pleasing session, however, is an incessant rock beat, which lends an aura of sameness to ...
Carlos Henriquez: Monk Con Clave
by Pierre Giroux
Carlos Henriquez has long understood that rhythm tells stories long before words arrive. On Monk Con Clave, he takes Thelonious Monk's angular brilliance and brings it back to the streets, dance halls, and other crowded spaces across New York's Afro-Caribbean neighbourhoods. The result is not merely a tribute album but a living dialogue between Monk's genius ...
Christine Fawson: It Could Happen to You
by Jack Bowers
A trumpet player who sings or a singer who plays trumpet? Christine Fawson puts those questions to the test (again) on It Could Happen to You, the fifth recording under her leadership, playing trumpet and singing on every one of the album's 11 carefully-mined selections from the Great American Songbook. The obvious answer is that Fawson ...
With God On Our Side
Album: Focus
By Bobby Wiens
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Duration: 07:24
Asdaa
Album: Asdaa
By Sufian Ararah
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Duration: 05:09
Ambrose Akinmusire / Mary Halvorson: Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings
by Mike Jurkovic
In a true meeting of great minds, shared aesthetic, and Nonesuch label mates, trumpeter/composer Ambrose Akinmusire and guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson play intently with their new Halvorson and hand-me-down Akinmusire Line 6 DL4 MkII Delay Modeler, and break the dark silence with the spectral movement of Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings. More laid back and ambient than either of the influencers' ...
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