Oh I do love it when an album lands that surprises me. Surprise in the sense that when I’m listening to this incredible ...

Denmark’s Human Being Human have always had a way of making a trio feel expansive, as if three instruments can somehow ...

This is one of those rare large-ensemble recordings where everything aligns: the writing, the players, the arrangements, and ...

Music By Lee Mason” welcomes us to the murky and sometimes bizarre world of library music. Originally released in 1971, a ...

Guitarist Julian Lage has never struck me as a musician short on ideas, but with “Scenes From Above” he seems less concerned ...

Recorded during the same New York sessions that produced 2024’s Royalty For Real, Dark Horse arrives as a companion piece ...

On Echoes, pianist Luke Marantz and guitarist Simon Jermyn distil more than a decade of shared musical language into an album ...

There’s a quiet authority to Resisei Lyla that reveals itself slowly, in fragments, just as the album title suggests. Bassist ...

There’s a quiet confidence running through “Embrace” that comes from musicians who know instinctively when to push and when ...

There’s a palpable sense of arrival on “Back and Forth”, an album that finds Estonian pianist and composer Rahel Talts ...

On paper, this looks like one of those concepts that could easily collapse under its own cleverness. McCoy Tyner and the ...

Andreas Røysum Ensemble with Marvin Tate feels less like a collaboration than a widening of Røysum’s already generous musical ...