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  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    The week’s best new album releases
    Ches Smith’s Interpret It Well marries vibrant tones with a vibraphone

    The musician’s 10th release, supported by piano, guitar and viola, maintains a fascinating grip

  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Tigran Hamasyan: StandArt — vivid imagination

    The pianist and composer applies his florid technique to the standard jazz repertoire of the American songbook

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    A new box-set captures the fierce energy of saxophonist Albert Ayler

    The jazz musician’s avant-garde sound ripples through recordings of two 1970 concerts at the Fondation Maeght

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Jazz legend Charles Mingus’s centenary celebrated with two albums

    A lost 1972 session and alternate takes from 1957 mark what would have been the composer’s 100th birthday

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    ReviewMusic
    Saxophonist Melissa Aldana controls moods and dynamics at Ronnie Scott’s

    The Chilean musician performed fine solos while her band showed an impressive grasp of detail

  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Joel Ross: The Parable of the Poet — a novel approach with historical roots

    The vibraphonist’s suite combines contemporary rhythms with sonorities that recall jazz’s early years

  • Friday, 8 April, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Jeremy Pelt: Soundtrack — fresh melodies and modernist panache

    The American jazz trumpeter returns with a skilful band and tones from Latin to R&B

  • Saturday, 2 April, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Dave Douglas celebrates 600 years of van Eyck with Secular Psalms

    The American trumpeter brings together musicians to capture ‘Adoration of the Mystic Lamb’ and its chequered history

  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    ReviewMusic
    Jazz trumpeter Marquis Hill celebrates breakthrough album at Ronnie Scott’s

    Subtitled New Gospel Revisited, this was a mood-soaked performance from the Chicagoan and his band

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Michael Bisio Quartet: MBefore — humour, compassion and warmth

    Emotions are impressively sustained and original compositions cohere into long-sustained moods

  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Walter Smith III & Matthew Stevens Present: In Common III — personality and free jazz

    The high-profile sidemen make their first foray into abstract electronica with like-minded guests

  • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
    ReviewMusic
    Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell, Cadogan Hall — wry and controlled

    In this solo London performance, the musician illustrated the breadth of his repertoire

  • Sunday, 13 March, 2022
    ReviewMusic
    Engrossing interplay from Kenny Barron and Dado Moroni at Pizza Express Jazz Club

    The duo’s London gig launched the venue’s Steinway 2-Piano Festival

  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Avishai Cohen: Naked Truth — spacious, lyrical and slightly melancholic

    The Israeli trumpeter’s latest album presents existential musings with a sweeping splendour and a minimum of fuss

  • Monday, 28 February, 2022
    ReviewMusic
    Mark Lockheart’s Dreamers — jazz substance and alt-rock grit

    This gig at London’s Vortex showcased the saxophonist’s wide-ranging new album

  • Friday, 25 February, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Binker & Moses’s Feeding the Machine fuses free-jazz with synths

    The duo flesh out their spartan sound with Max Luthert’s textured electronica

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    David Binney delivers ease and emotion in A Glimpse of the Eternal

    The alto saxophonist brings calm to his latest album, but it also has darker shades

  • Friday, 11 February, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Lennie Tristano: Personal Recordings 1946-70 captures a free-jazz pioneer

    This compelling six-CD set showcases the late pianist’s harmonic adventure and rhythmic thrust

  • Friday, 4 February, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Immanuel Wilkins grasps a higher musical plane in The 7th Hand

    The saxophonist imagines the sound of divine inspiration through a seven-part suite that gradually moves towards improvisation

  • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
    ReviewMusic
    Compelling improvisation from Craig Taborn at London’s Vortex Jazz Club

    The audience was transfixed by the pianist’s dramatic juxtapositions, technical finesse and his unique use of pedals

  • Friday, 28 January, 2022
    Albums
    The Chicago Experiment — well-worked jams from the Windy City

    Chicago’s long musical history is homaged in a kaleidoscope of blues, hip-hop and experimental jazz

  • Friday, 21 January, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Stan Tracey Trio: The 1959 Sessions — confident swagger

    Recently discovered tapes capturing the pianist’s commanding personal voice get a welcome first-time release

  • Friday, 14 January, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Fred Hersch: Breath by Breath — impressively balanced

    The composer’s score interweaves piano trio jazz with the feisty playing of the Crosby Street String Quartet

  • Friday, 7 January, 2022
    ReviewAlbums
    Christian McBride delivers rhythmic thrust in Live at the Village Vanguard

    The bassist’s rounded tone and the precision of his Inside Straight quintet make this album stand out

  • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
    ReviewAlbums
    Posi-Tone pays homage to Wayne Shorter in ‘Shorter Moments’

    The label’s musicians salute the jazz composer with tightly delivered and swinging rhythms

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