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 ...

When Jean-Marie Machado took his trio with bassist Henning Sieverts and drummer François Merville to Le Triton in Les Lilas in October 2015, the set included Miles Davis‘s ‘Nardis’ and a Machado ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve listened to many guitar albums over the years where you can easily identify the influences and admire the technique, eventually settling into some familiar musical territory. Finn Loxbo’s ...

Mats Äleklint has spent twenty-five years mostly as somebody else’s trombone. Fire! Orchestra, Angles, the Johan Lindström Septet, Paal Nilssen-Love’s Large Unit, the Norrbotten Big Band, dates with ...

I should own up to where I started back when this first came through a few weeks ago. The sleeve looked like a budget job, no physical edition surfaced anywhere, and I filed Donald Vega away as a name ...

ACP Records is not a label of any kind I’m used to writing about. It belongs to Amherst College Press, the college’s scholarly publishing arm, and it applies the machinery of academic publishing to ...