I came to Current on CD late one evening with the headphones on, and cast off without quite meaning to. By the time the ...

Some recordings are made to be released; others simply happen and wait. A Timeless Place belongs firmly to the second kind.

Tribute albums are notoriously difficult to pull off. Too often, they become museum pieces, reverential exercises that ...

There’s a gentle irony in the name. Uusi Jazzi Klubi translates as “New Jazz Club”, yet the Helsinki collective behind it has ...

There is a quiet confidence in musicians who feel no need to advertise their modernity, and it runs through most of Secret ...

A solo flute album is a hard thing to make and, I’ll admit, a hard thing to write about. Seven unaccompanied pieces, no other ...

There are certain moments in jazz history where everything simply clicks. Miles ’56: The Prestige Recordings captures one of ...

Most new labels turn up clutching a mission statement, and most of those statements blur into one. Svale Records, freshly ...

Drop the needle, give it a second, and a room assembles itself around you — a small one, warm-walled, the sort where you ...

The first-ever vinyl reissue of Hadley Caliman‘s 1971 cult classic Iapetus arrives courtesy of WeWantSounds, presented in its ...

Following the acclaim of her debut Good Intentions, which earned international recognition and a German Jazz Prize, New York ...

There’s a particular self-regard that creeps into anniversaries, and the Metropole Orkest has dodged almost all of it. Eighty ...