Georgia Mancio: Live At ReVoice!

The name at the top of the cover of Live At ReVoice! is that of Georgia Mancio, the London-based vocalist who appears on every one of the 12 tracks. A quick glance lower down the cover adds a dozen more names--a list of Mancio's accompanists that reads like a veritable "Who's Who" of the UK jazz sce... [ read more ]

Mundell Lowe / Lloyd Wells / Jim Ferguson: Poor Butterfly

Few people could ever claim to have played and/or recorded with such a storied list of performers as m: Sarah Vaughan, m: Ben Webster, m: Billie Holiday, m: Charlie Parker, m: Carmen McRae, m: Ella Fitzgerald, {{m: Blossom Dearie... [ read more ]

Samuel Torres Group: Forced Displacement

When Chamber Music America awarded Colombian-born, New York-based percussionist Samuel Torres a New Jazz Works grant in 2012, the wheels started spinning in his mind. Ultimately, it would be his native land that would help determine the directional vision for the grant-funded work: Torres, inspired... [ read more ]

Juhani Aaltonen and Iro Haarla: Kirkastus

The most striking thing about Kirkastus--a duo outing by a pair of seasoned Finnish free jazzers, saxophonist m: Juhani Aaltonen and pianist/harpist m: Iro Haarla--is the unalloyed beauty of the sound they've made. Aaltonen, in his eighth decade now, has the longer term veter... [ read more ]

Marie Kruttli Quintet: What Do I Miss

What Do I Miss is pianist Marie Kruttli's second album as leader, hot on the heels of her trio debut, Kartapousse, which was released in mid-2015. Once again the tunes are all Kruttli's original compositions, but this time round it's a quintet outing: a short, five track EP recorded in Brooklyn duri... [ read more ]

Bengt Berger / Jonas Knutsson / Christian Spering / Max Schultz: Blue Blue

The Swedish trio of drummer m: Bengt Berger, saxophonist Jonas Knutsson and bassist m: Christian Spering has been working for 19 years, often hosting different musicians-friends. This versatile trio aesthetics blended natural elements of modern jazz with East-Asian and West-A... [ read more ]

Garzone / Bergonzi / Moses / Andersson: Splitting up in Boston

Back in 2013, renowned saxophonists m: George Garzone and m: Jerry Bergonzi recorded an album together that came out in 2014 on the Danish label Stunt. The name of the album was Quintonic and it sounded just as one might expect; wonderful music with fiery blowing, swinging tune... [ read more ]