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 ...

Steve Tibbetts’s new album, “Close”, his eleventh on the ECM label, is a haunting, deeply intimate statement – a twilight ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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, ...

At just 23, saxophonist and composer Emma Rawicz has already carved out a space as one of the most exciting voices on the UK jazz scene. With her new release “Inkyra”, she cements that reputation, ...

Gregory Groover Jr. is a new name to me – and, I suspect, to many readers – so a little background seems appropriate. The New York-born, Boston-bred saxophonist, bandleader, composer and educator ...

There’s a stunning, unbroken beauty running through “Topos”, a quiet kind of magic that feels both ancient and vividly new. The Greek duo of lyra master Sokratis Sinopoulos and pianist Yann Keerim ...