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, ...

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 ...

The debut from the trio of Claire Parsons, Eran Har Even, and Ziv Ravitz arrives like an elegant doorway into a vividly hybrid world; part jazz, part folk-inflected songcraft, part rock-fusion dream.

From the first shimmering seconds of “Prelude” to the lingering afterglow of “Postlude”, “Oscillations” cosmically pulses, breathes and expands. This fourth offering from Sweden’s endlessly inventive ...