Metheny/Garbarek/Burton/Colley/Gottlieb/McCandless/SWR Big Band: Hommage á Eberhard Weber

Gary Burton | Paul McCandless | Jan Garbarek | Eberhard Weber | Danny Gottlieb | Mike Gibbs | Helge Sunde | Scott Colley | Pat Metheny

This would be a significant release if only for the presence of a major new composition from Metheny. The fact...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Sokratis Sinopoulos: Eight Winds

Dimitris Emanouil | Dimitris Tsekouras | Yann Keerim | Sokratis Sinopoulos

“I play an instrument associated with a specific tradition and live in a place where the tradition is really strong,”...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Enrico Rava Quartet with Gianluca Petrella: Wild Dance

Enrico Morello | Gianluca Petrella | Gabriele Evangelista | Enrico Rava | Francesco Diodati

Rava, now into his fourth quartercentury, continues to go from strength to strength and, after a period on ECM in...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Stefano Battaglia Trio: In The Morning

Salvatore Maiore | Roberto Dani | Stefano Battaglia

“To me Alec Wilder represents the home of American music in the largest sense,” says Italian pianist Stefano Battaglia by...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Dominique Pifarely: Time Before and Time After

This French violinist has recorded with Louis Sclavis, Stefano Battaglia and Mike Westbrook among others but he's on his own...

Reviewed in issue October/2015

Nils Økland Ensemble: Kjølvatn

Håkon Mørch Stene | Sigbjørn Apeland | Nils Økland | Mats Eilertsen | Rolf-Erik Nylstr m

Nils Økland has been hailed as Norway's hardinger fiddle master. His skills are obviously in demand across a varied musical...

Reviewed in issue September/2015

Gary Peacock Trio: Now This

Joey Baron | Gary Peacock | Marc Copland

Released to coincide with Peacock's 80th birthday back in May, this makes a change from both his work with pianist...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Tim Berne's Snakeoil: You've been Watching Me

Tim Berne | Ches Smith | Matt Mitchell | Oscar Noriega | Ryan Ferreira

Up until now, the New York saxophonist Tim Berne's sixyear-old band Snakeoil (although his collaboration with the younger pianist Matt...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

David Torn: Only Sky

David Torn

If you want to know what David Torn, a film composer and guitarist who has worked with David Bowie, Ryuichi...

Reviewed in issue July/2015

Giovanni Guidi Trio: This Is The Day

Giovanni Guidi | Joao Lobo | Thomas Morgan

Having missed the chance to catch the trio live in London in April, I'm left with a rather variable, if...

Reviewed in issue June/2015