Reviews

ARTIST Billy Mohler ALBUM TITLE "Live in Europe: Bimhuis/Amsterdam & Carambolage/Italy" LABEL Dox Records ______________________________________________________________ Recorded during the European tour of April 2025, the album marks the debut of a new...

ARTIST Alain Metrailler ALBUM TITLE "Heights Prospection" LABEL Unit Records ______________________________________________________________ Another debut album, in a period particularly rich in exciting new releases, comes from 30-year-old Swiss saxophonist Alain Métrailler, who...

ARTIST Tyrone Allen II ALBUM TITLE "Upward" LABEL Dreams & Fears ______________________________________________________________ The bandleader debut of Tyrone Allen II – the highly acclaimed new bassist on the New York scene, whom...

ARTIST Jon Irabagon & Dan Oestreicher ALBUM TITLE "Saturday's Child" LABEL Irabbagast ______________________________________________________________ This new album by Jon Irabagon is as singular as it is intriguing. As we have already noted,...

ARTIST Quinsin Nachoff ALBUM TITLE "Patterns from Nature" LABEL Whirlwind ______________________________________________________________ Canadian, 52 years old and active for more than three decades – his first album under his own name dates...

ARTIST Tedeschi Trucks Band ALBUM TITLE "Future Soul" LABEL Fantasy ______________________________________________________________ What on earth, to borrow a famously colourful phrase from Italian political jargon, does the Tedeschi Trucks Band have to...

ARTIST Mara & Naná Vasconcelos ALBUM TITLE "Ntsano" LABEL Red Records ______________________________________________________________ Red Records' reissue series is further enriched by this LP, recorded in 1983, whose significance may be better understood...

ARTIST Michael Formanek ALBUM TITLE "New Digs" LABEL Intakt ______________________________________________________________ Michael Formanek’s new project completely reshapes the configuration in which we have most often seen him perform in recent years, namely...

ARTIST Marilyn Crispell & Anders Jormin ALBUM TITLE "Memento" LABEL Ecm ______________________________________________________________ A collaboration that has continued intermittently for several years finds its first recorded document in this precious, extremely understated...

ARTIST Cecil Taylor ALBUM TITLE "Fragments. The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts" LABEL Elemental ______________________________________________________________ Taylor's quartet with Rivers, Lyons and Cyrille has been enshrined in jazz history for 56 years...