The Free Jazz Collective

 By Sammy Stein Matthew Shipp and William Parker are amongst the greatest musicians today and Re-Union is one of the best duo albums I have ...

By Stef Gijssels Last year, I came across Belgian pianist Pak Yan Lau, who released the phenomenal " Duo Pour 454 Chordes "...

By Stef Star ratings also reflect the length of the album, and if this album was longer, the rating may have been higher. The duo fo Chr...

By Nick Ostrum A long time ago, a friend introduced me to the music of Satoko Fujii. He loaned me a few albums and, at first listen,...

By Eyal Hareuveni Japanese pianist-composer Satoko Fujii and American double bass master Joe Fonda did not need much time to establish ...

By  Colin Green James Joyce (1882 – 1941) lived in Trieste for fifteen years from 1904, where he completed A Portrait of the Artist as...

By Paul Acquaro Bassist Michael Bisio and pianist Matthew Shipp's Floating Ice is a rather beautiful recording. It's a collectio...

By Paul Acquaro The music starts getting tense midway through 'Two' on Matthew Shipp and Joe Morris' vibrant new duo recordin...

 By Stef The advantage of writing fewer reviews is that I can listen a lot more to the same album, and I have listened dozens of times ...

Last year pianist James Carney released an excellent modern jazz CD, " Ways And Means ", yet what he does here on this album with ...

So far, we did not have too many "piano & bass" labels on this blog's catalogue, and now we double the amount, thanks to t...

The title "Out Of Nowhere" says it all, on these eleven tracks, French bassist Joëlle Léandre and fellow countryman Quentin Sirjac...

This is the third duo album by bassist Mark Dresser and pianist Denman Maroney, after "Duologues" and "Time Changes". In...

After many recordings together in various line-ups, pianist Russ Lossing and bassist John Hebert finally play the long-awaited duo. With the...