Reviews

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...

ARTIST Oscar Peterson ALBUM TITLE "Live at Baker's Keyboard Lounge" LABEL Verve ______________________________________________________________ Later in this issue (MJ May 2026), in our interview with Mark Stryker, author of the excellent liner...

ARTIST Emanuele Cisi ALBUM TITLE "Rushin'" LABEL Right Tempo ______________________________________________________________ Rushin' has the atmosphere of a session from another era. It feels like a leap back to the margins of the...

ARTIST Brandon Seabrook ALBUM TITLE "Hellbent Daydream" LABEL Pyroclastic ______________________________________________________________ Following the remarkable solo statement Object of Unknown Function, Brandon Seabrook – now fifty and long recognised for his highly personal...