It would be difficult to overestimate the degree to which Buddy! announces Stephen Parisi Jr. as a bassist unusually conscious of lineage, obligation and musical etiquette. Debut albums are so often ...

Vocalist and songwriter Sara Colman has been a quietly influential presence on the British jazz scene for several years. Born in Bristol, she is a graduate of the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and ...

Stille’ marks the latest release from Jesper Thorn who continues his “exploration as sound as refuge” – as compellingly ...

For his third solo release, originally released in 1978, Joe Chambers, whilst best known as a drummer, takes on the piano for ...

Few jazz projects can claim a gestation period as epic as John Vanore’s Easter Island Suite. Forty years in the making, this ...

With FAMILIA, Berlin-based Argentine pianist and composer Ramiro Zayas moves decisively into large-ensemble territory, ...

There are certain ECM recordings that feel less like albums and more like quiet conversations preserved in amber. Oracle, the ...

With “Sundance”, guitarist and composer Karim Saber delivers a confident, richly textured second album that confirms why he’s ...

From the first resonant strike of Awakening, it’s immediately apparent: John O’Gallagher has no intention of letting you ...

El Combo Batanga unveil their official sophomore album release ‘Spanish Dogs’ which also marks their first official ...

There’s a mischievous energy in Foolin’ Myself, and it’s all in the way Max Kochetov’s soprano sax snakes through the quartet ...

If our earlier UK Vibe review of Gabriel Grossi Quintet framed the harmonica virtuoso as a restless modernist operating at ...