The Free Jazz Collective

By Paul Acquaro   Polish pianist Joanna Duda has a lithe, modern approach to the piano. Clear and repetitive figures interlock in hypnotic p...

By Stef Gijssels The question why some albums never get reviewed is as baffling for a seasoned reviewer as it can be for the regular reader....

By Taylor McDowell Space is Lisa Ullén (piano), Elsa Bergman (double bass) and Anna Lund (drums).The piano trio based in Stockholm is back ...

By Stef Gijssels The Dutch band " Omawi " (short for Onno, Marta and Wilbert) consists of Marta Warelis on piano, Onno Govaert on ...

By Stef Gijssels It's a great start to make your debut trio album a winner, and that's the case with this album by Clara Lai on pian...

 By Stef Gijssels Ever since I heard the duo of Swedish pianist Lisa Ullén and bassist Nina De Heney on " Carve ", I...

By Fotis Nikolakopoulos I must state from the beginning, that this is the best piano trio that I’ve listened so far in 2021. The fu...

By Martin Schray On Uneasy , his seventh album for ECM Records, Vijay Iyer presents an immensely powerful new trio, which he h...

By Martin Schray Grünen first performed in April 2009 when Robert Landfermann (bass) invited Achim Kaufmann (piano) and Christian Lill...

By Eyal Haruveni Iro Haarla’s Around Again is the second Nordic tribute to influential and prolific American pianist-composer Carla Ble...

By Eyal Harueveni This recording of French pianist Sophie Agnel and British double bass player John Edwards and drummer Steve Noble epi...

By Stef Amazingly enough, this is the first piano, bass and drums trio that Wayne Horvitz ever recorded, despite his long career as a mu...

By Raina Joines and Rick Joines After the Fall is a live album by Keith Jarrett’s famed “Standards Trio,” with Gary Peacock on bass ...

By Paul Acquaro A few years back Pennsylvania based pianist Ron Stabinsky joined the Pennsylvania-philic Mostly Other People Do the Kill...

By Eyal Hareuveni The Australian, Sydney-based Alister Spence Trio - pianist Spence, double bass player Lloyd Swanton, known from The Ne...

By Stef Backlog 3 French pianist Benoît Delbecq has been praised on this blog before, and rightly so. Not that he is an icon of free j...

Vijar Iyer, Stephan Crump, and Tyshawn Sorey at Miller Theater, Columbia University By Paul Acquaro It's probably best to be fort...

By Paul Acquaro There is something familiar about Aruán Ortiz's approach on the piano. One bit Matthew Shipp, one bit Craig Taborn, ...

By Eric McDowell Following last year’s Projections , Simon Nabatov and Mark Dresser are back on record together in standard piano trio f...

By Eyal Hareuveni Making a live recording - a really good one - is considered in Australian slang to be somewhat of a 'slippery eel...