When Clifford Jordan reached Paris in March 1975, at the height of his mid-decade resurgence, a new Selmer Mark VII tenor saxophone awaited him. Night of the Mark VII is named after it. Recorded in ...

Enrico Rava’s latest release, Corners, lets its character unfold through the shared connections between the musicians. The little shifts of emphasis, the knowing exchanges, and the sense that nobody ...

The Magic Lantern is Jamie Doe, Australian-born, London-based, recording under the name since 2011. This fifth album came out of a few months in which his daughter was born, and his father died six ...

‘Amaryllis 2’ marks the latest collaborative release between musician and producer Richard X Bennett and vocalist and percussionist Paula Jeanine Bennett unveiled through Ropeadope Records. Having ...

Every so often, a lineup tells you most of what you need to know before a note has sounded. For Floating, Emile Parisien (soprano saxophone) has gathered three musicians who lead in their own right: ...

There’s nothing conventional about here i am no i, and thankfully neither Patrick Shiroishi nor Jason Nazary seem particularly interested in making it easy for the listener. This music exists ...

The 1972 album Vento Sul marked another unique example of Marcos Valle reinventing and reinvigorating his compositions and arrangements, weaving an exciting tapestry of progressive sound with elements ...

Jacob Wick was born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1985, studied trumpet at SUNY Purchase under Jon Faddis, and then took a Master of Fine Arts in social practice at the California College of the Arts. For ...

Losen has been running out of Oslo since 2010, an offshoot of Odd Gjelsnes’s distribution company MusikkLosen, and its catalogue is overwhelmingly a CD catalogue. Vinyl surfaces now and again.

George Grydkovets has clearly been listening widely. On Spirit in You, the Ukrainian-born guitarist blends modern jazz guitar, ambient music, contemporary composition, and the freer instincts of New ...

Jack Wyllie has spent much of his career making music that seems to exist somewhere between categories rather than comfortably inside them. As co-founder of Portico Quartet, he helped develop a ...