Mystic Suite”, the stunning new release from the Atlantis Jazz Ensemble, completes a sweeping conceptual arc that began with ...

There’s real alchemy at work on MEZZO, the latest release from saxophonist Tim Garland and pianist Geoffrey Keezer. Forged ...

Since its creation as a trio in 1966, Soft Machine has pioneered psychedelic, progressive, and jazz-rock, emerging as a ...

If ever a trio embodied the exploratory yet distinctly British spirit of contemporary jazz, it is Shapeshifter. The eponymous group brings together three of the UK’s most imaginative and responsive ...

Taupe have always thrived on volatility, but waxing | waning feels less like a collection of compositions, and more like a live wire dropped into a steelworks. The Glasgow trio return on Minority ...

Longineau Parsons’ little-known record receives a much-welcome reissue via the California-based specialist label Luv N’Haight ...

The debut release from Andrew MacKelvie’s Many Worlds ensemble appropriately finds its home on the Canadian label, Watch That Ends The Night Records. Themselves a comparatively young label, Watch That ...

By 1979, Kai Winding had long since secured his place in modern jazz history. From the urbane, high-polish exchanges with J.J. Johnson in the 1950s to the more commercially inclined ventures of the ...

In 1971, while electric jazz was reshaping the landscape in New York and London, a quietly daring chapter was unfolding in Buenos Aires. Quinteplus is not a derivative footnote; it is evidence that ...

With “ReSet”, guitarist David Chevallier once again confirms his status as one of the most original and quietly adventurous figures on the French jazz scene. Joined by long-time collaborators ...

Trumpeter and composer Jeremy Pelt successfully delivers one of the most purposeful statements of his career so far on his latest release “Our Community Will Not Be Erased”. This is an album that ...

By 1973, Tim Maia didn’t need to prove he could make hits. His previous self-titled album had already cracked the Brazilian Top 10 alongside giants like Gal Costa and Chico Buarque, while American ...