'Variations' their third album, and the first to be released internationally, features a variety of melodic and rhythmic landscapes, with the relaxed structures of Foran and Parker's intimate songwriting decorated by the group's ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op 10, No 1, 2 & 3
Mari Kodama continues her cycle of piano sonatas. 'What really comes across, is her affection for the music, her wish to give it time so that we may enjoy its shape, harmonies and details.'
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Instrumental
Rabo de Nube captures a phenomenal show by the legendary, seventy-yer-old saxophonist/flutist Charles Lloyd, with his new quartet featuring pianist Jason Moran, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland. This recording exudes everything that makes jazz such a vibrant art.
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
'Stone in the Water' is exemplary in its understatement. Without even a moment of grandstanding nor a break in the trio’s concentrated interaction, this album might better have been named Water Over Stones such is its smooth, fluid motion. ...
Composer: Stefano Bollani, Jesper Bodilsen, Morten Lund
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
A new transatlantic quintet headed by Italian trumpeter Rava, recorded in New York in 2008 and a first ECM appearance for US tenorist Mark Turner, whose distilled, lean sound references Coltrane, Warne Marsh, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
'January” is a strong musical statement from a still-young band with a long history already behind it, and an album with an exceptionally wide-ranging programme - all of it played with assurance, purpose and focus. ...
Composer: Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz, Michal Miskiewicz
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
