The Free Jazz Collective

By Lee Rice Epstein It seems every year there is at least one piano trio album that upends and reinvents one of the oldest formats i...

By Stephen Griffith It was only a matter of time for this group, with Mary Halv orson and Tim Berne, to happen. Before they all appea...

By Nick Ostrum Ghosts was truly a welcome surprise. I have been following the Dutch duo Dead Neanderthals for years now. The band’s cor...

By Eyal Hareuveni New trio albums with French master of the double bass Joëlle Léandre, one with a new trio and another with a working ...

By Stuart Broomer There’s a question once posed by John Cage that seems to invite an expanding variety of answers, something about what’...

By Stef This review was long in the making, so I'll shorten it with some very high level appreciations about new solo cello albums. ...

By Lee Rice Epstein The Fallow Curves of the Planospheres **** The Hotel of Thirteen Losses ***½ Rotterdam **** Berlin ****½ No Signal ...

By Martin Schray Christopher Dell (vibraphone), Christian Lillinger (drums) and Jonas Westergaard (double b...

By Eyal Hareuveni   The work of Swedish reeds master Fredrik Ljungkvist, known from the Swedish-Norwegian quintet Atomic, is criminal...

By Stef As a fan of Don Cherry, I have always been fascinated by the trumpeter's openness to engage with musicians with totally differ...