Steve Tibbetts’s new album, “Close”, his eleventh on the ECM label, is a haunting, deeply intimate statement – a twilight meditation that feels like translating shadow into sound. From the opening “We ...

Under the leadership of composer and multi-instrumentalist Mak Murtić, Mimika Orchestra have carved out a distinct identity: since their founding in London (and now based in Zagreb) they mix Balkan ...

Polish musician, composer and producer Marek “Latarnik” Pędziwiatr, and American-born, Stockholm-based vocalist Anthony Mills ...

From Glastonbury to Slovakia, Ari Tsugi’s latest album Ryto Vėjas ir Mėnulis (“Morning Wind and the Moon”) finds a fitting home on the adventurous Slovak imprint Sinko Records – a label celebrated for ...

Moving to São Paulo, Brazil, in the 1950s, Argentine-born saxophonist and flautist Hector Costita was quickly drawn to the ...

Sarathy Korwar’s seventh album “There Is Beauty, There Already” is a compelling exercise in meditative rhythm and trance. In ...

Chicago saxophonist, composer, and educator Sam Pilnick has been steadily carving out a space for himself in the ...

Some performances arrive decades late and still sound urgent, alive and impossible to ignore — Horace Silver’s 1965 Penthouse ...

Night Dreamer’s direct-to-disc series has always aimed to capture jazz at its rawest, with one-take performances, no edits, ...

As the 1960s gave way to the 1970s, Brazilian music was entering one of its most restless and inventive periods. The ...

FIGURE IN BLUE is an expansive and meditative musical memoir from saxophonist and flautist Charles Lloyd; the 87 year old reflects on his personal legacy, exploring an ethereal mysticism combined with ...

Some musicians exude an indefinable quality. Let’s take Brad Mehldau as an example. It’s not just his choice of notes that he plays, it’s the feel and depth within them that goes beyond explanation.