Mark Turner – Return from the Stars (ECM Records, ECM 2684. Review by Graham Spry) The great California-born tenor saxophonist Mark Turner once again gives free rein to his passion for the […]
Mark Turner – ‘Return from the Stars’
Craig Taborn – ‘Shadow Plays’
Craig Taborn – Shadow Plays (ECM 2693. CD review by John Stevenson) Known for several decades as an adventurous sideman in the equally daring ensembles of saxophonists James Carter, Tim Berne, and […]
Andrew Cyrille Quartet – ‘The News’
Andrew Cyrille Quartet – The News (ECM 3520703. CD review by Jon Turney) This superb follow up to the great drummer Andrew Cyrille’s 2016 quartet release The Declaration of Musical Independence reunites […]
10 Tracks by Miroslav Vitous I Can’t Do Without… by Matt Ridley
In the latest of our series in which jazz musicians do a deep (and entirely personal and selective) dive into the music of their idols, bassist Matt Ridley (*) writes about Czech […]
Nik Bärtsch – ‘Entendre’
Nik Bärtsch – Entendre (ECM 3528110. CD Review by John Bungey) Nik Bärtsch is one of that esteemed band of musicians whose work you can recognise within 30 seconds (*). The Swiss […]
Wolfgang Sandner – ‘Keith Jarrett: A Biography’
Keith Jarrett: A Biography. Wolfgang Sandner (author)/ Chris Jarrett (translator) (Equinox Books. 230pp. Book Review by John Bungey) With the great American pianist announcing that his performing career is almost certainly over, […]
Anja Lechner, François Couturier – “Lontano”
Anja Lechner, François Couturier – Lontano (released 16 October) (ECM Records, ECM 2682. Review by Graham Spry) German cellist Anja Lechner is probably known above all for the album Chants, Hymns and […]
Dominik Wania – “Lonely Shadows”
Dominik Wania – Lonely Shadows (ECM 0869583. CD review by Mary James) Lonely Shadows, a solo album by Polish pianist Dominik Wania is the result of much patience: it’s been seven years […]
Michel Benita Quartet – “Looking At Sounds”
Michel Benita Quartet – Looking At Sounds (ECM 6025 0872884. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) Michel Benita is a a French bass player born in Algeria. He is mainly known in the UK for […]
Pat Metheny: eleven ECM albums now available in HD audio
ECM has announced that Pat Metheny’s eleven albums for ECM from the period 1976-1984 are available in HD Audio, as from 31 July 2020. “The main premise in digitizing the Pat Metheny […]
Norma Winstone has a new album project (Column in German magazine JAZZTHETIK)
For Sebastian’s regular London Column in the German magazine JAZZTHETIK(*), he spoke to Norma Winstone in mid-May, to discover that she is working on a new album project… In a world […]
John Scofield, Steve Swallow, Bill Stewart – “Swallow Tales”
John Scofield, Steve Swallow, Bill Stewart – Swallow Tales(ECM 0836036. CD review by Alison Bentley) Going back to go forwards: US guitarist John Scofield’s new project returns to the Steve Swallow compositions that inspired his younger self […]
Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki – “Rivages”
Jean-Louis Matinier and Kevin Seddiki – Rivages (ECM 0864800. CD review by Mary James) If you articulate the word “Rivages” aloud you breathe in and then out, gently and naturally. And so […]
Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, Brian Blade – “Angular Blues”
Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, Brian Blade – Angular Blues (ECM 0814506. Review by John Arnett) This album was recorded in Japan in one day in August 2018, shortly after the trio’s […]
In lockdown with… trumpeter Avishai Cohen
Born in Tel Aviv, trumpeter Avishai Cohen moved to the US to study at Berklee and won the Thelonious Monk competition in 1997. He recently released the fourth record in his own […]
