De Beren Gieren: One Mirrors Many

Still looking to breathe life into the venerable piano trio format, Belgian threesome De Beren Gieren (The Bears Shriek would be one translation) present their fourth album following The Detour Fish (Clean Feed, 2014), A Raveling (De Beren Records, 2013) and Wirklich Welt So (El Negocito, 2012). Lea... [ read more ]

Joe McPhee / Jamie Saft / Joe Morris / Charles Downs: Ticonderoga

The premise for this get together commenced with discussions by pianist m: Jamie Saft and bassist, guitarist m: Joe Morris who plotted to meld their influences from m: John Coltrane's Live at the Village Vanguard Again (Impulse, 1966) album, along with celebrated art... [ read more ]

Faces: Faces: Stay With Me Anthology

Something of a miniature cross between the 4CD hardbound set, Five Guys Walk Into a Bar (Rhino, 2004) and the five-disc box You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (1970-1975) (Rhino, 2015), this double disc package contains official album recordings, (in recently remastered form), singles and live... [ read more ]

Signe Bisgaard: Meander

A big ensemble often equals a big sound, but sometimes it is more interesting to think about the potential of sound rather than the idea of using all instruments at once. The Danish composer and pianist, Signe Bisgaard, thinks about the potential of sound on her album Meander. She does not use all i... [ read more ]

Bobby Matos Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble: Bobby Matos: Ritmo and Blues

Fate blessed m: Bobby Matos. For a kid who dreamed of growing up to be a Latin jazz musician, he could not have been born in a more fortuitous time and place. In the years after World War Two, Nueva York's Hispanic population exploded. Between the years 1940 and 1960, the number of Puerto... [ read more ]

LuA-s Lopes/Jean-Luc Guionnet: Live At Culturgest

All great art invokes the imagination. Think of your favorite movie and the two hours of viewing that transported you into a different world. Music can accomplish the same ends. Take this live date at Culturgest in Lisbon. The meeting between Portuguese guitarist LuA-s Lopes and French saxophoni... [ read more ]

Martin KA1/4chen/Jon Rune StrA m/Tollef A~stvang: Melted Snow

Not Quite All Included or Some Included might be appropriate names for the trio of Swedish saxophonist m: Martin KA1/4chen, and Norwegian bassist m: Jon Rune StrA m and drummer m: Tollef A~stvang. Reason being that the repertoire on Melted Snow partially replicates... [ read more ]