All About Jazz Album Reviews

Neil Cowley: Built on Bach

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:34:43 +0000

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Howard Levy: Heavy World

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:34:37 +0000

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Marty Ehrlich: Open Air: The Complete Saxophone Quartet Compositions Of Julius Hemphill

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 06:34:33 +0000

Julius Hemphill's saxophone quartets reveal a compositional imagination as resourceful as it is distinctive. In assembling all of Hemphill's known works for the format, reedman Marty Ehrlich brings a remarkable body of music into sharp focus, foregrounding the harmonic ingenuity and structural precision that can be obscured by extensive improvisation... [ read more ]]]>

Max Richter: While The Flood Rages

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 06:34:50 +0000

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Ernesto Cervini: Water Pistols at Dawn

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 06:34:42 +0000

Kae Murphy, guitarist Andrew Marzotto, and bassist Mark Godfrey, makes its recording debut with an album that is exploratory, occasionally mischievous, and, above all, unconcerned with staying in one musical lane... [ read more ]]]>

Arkady Gotesman: Music For An Imaginary Ballet

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 06:34:39 +0000

Petras Vysniauskas with whom he released PetrArka (ITM Records), the first-ever Lithuanian jazz CD, in 1990... [ read more ]]]>

Tuomo Uusitalo: Homecoming

Mon, 02 Nov 2026 06:35:00 +0000

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Stephen Byth: Growth in Stasis

Mon, 02 Nov 2026 06:34:49 +0000

New York City, he draws on modern jazz traditions while developing a language distinguished by memorable melodies, sparkling arrangements and inventive ensemble interplay... [ read more ]]]>

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: Blue Moon Over Paris: ORTF Recordings 1963 and 1968

Mon, 02 Nov 2026 06:34:00 +0000

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John Coltrane: The Tiberi Tapes

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:34:51 +0000

Frank Tiberi-- Tiberi roamed the bandstands with Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Dizzy Gillespie--recording nightly performances of John Coltrane and various line-ups of the Classic Quartet as they blazed their way through New York and the Center City centered Showboat in 1960--'61 on their way into musical history and cultural consciousness... [ read more ]]]>

Sylvie Courvoisier: Amalthea

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:34:43 +0000

Modern Jazz Quartet: piano, vibraphone, double bass and drums. Yet listening closely to the two groups reveals how far jazz has travelled between 1950 and now. Like John Lewis, Sylvie Courvoisier has an allegiance to European art music; where the MJQ cultivated poised, contrapuntal elegance, Amalthea favours abrupt changes of texture, prepared-piano color, metric instability and a more volatile collective energy... [ read more ]]]>

Sarah Pillow: Wanderer

Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:34:40 +0000

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Andrew Toombs: Alloy

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:34:59 +0000

Dave Brubeck, Benny Golson, Bootsy Collins, Carole King, Kenny Rogers, Yolanda Adams and DJ Jazzy Jeff... [ read more ]]]>

Kelly Green: Eat Your Greens

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:34:54 +0000

Orlando, Florida-reared vocalist-pianist Kelly Green boasts one of the most distinctive styles in modern jazz, combining unique approaches to both the piano and the voice to create a satisfying, pleasurable experience for the listener... [ read more ]]]>

Red Kite: This Too Shall Pass

Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:34:46 +0000

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Oded Tzur: In The Arms Of A True Believer

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:35:06 +0000

Make A Sound (Sky River Music, 2026), the first full album on his new label, Sky River Music, saxophonist Oded Tzur returns with a confident, exhilarating set of compositions. In the Arms of a True Believer reunites him with past collaborators Petros Klampanis (bass), Nitai Hershkovits (piano), and Cyrano Almeida (drums), and adds two new voices: Anais Benoit on piccolo and Corentin Morvan on euphonium... [ read more ]]]>

Rempis / Abrams / Ra + Baker: The Walls Of The Temple Are Made Of Sound

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:35:03 +0000

Chicago architecture and Chicago jazz inspire images of beefy, mammoth structures. The city's skyscrapers, bridges and industrial-strength rhythms seem built to withstand even the harshest winter winds, the kind vocalist Lou Rawls dubbed "the hawk." The quartet of saxophonist Dave Rempis, pianist Jim Baker, bassist Joshua Abrams and drummer Avreeayl Ra trades in similarly brawny sounds on the two-disc The Walls Of The Temple Are Made Of Sound... [ read more ]]]>

Joey van Leeuwen: Stray

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 06:34:55 +0000

Brooklyn-based drummer, composer, and global percussionist Joey van Leeuwen is a compelling voice in contemporary jazz, recognized for bridging American jazz with deep world rhythm traditions. A versatile multi-instrumentalist, he commands a unique rhythmic toolkit that includes the drums, ghatam (clay pot), and mridangam, alongside mastery of konakkol (Carnatic vocal percussion)... [ read more ]]]>

Miles Pillinger: Belonging

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:35:08 +0000

Manchester-born drummer and composer Miles Pillinger. Since graduating from Leeds Conservatoire, Pillinger has rapidly established himself on the UK jazz scene, and this recording introduces a confident musician with a strong rhythmic sensibility and a clear sense of his musical influences... [ read more ]]]>

Jon De Lucia: The Brubeck Octet Project Strikes Again!

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 06:35:05 +0000

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