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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Well now, what a year. In all honesty there’s been that much brilliant music released this year that I’ve found it difficult ...