Avishai Cohen (trumpet) Yonathan Avishai (piano), Barak Mori (double bass), Ziv Ravitz (drums)
Avishai Cohen - Naked Truth [ ECM / CD - released 25/Feb/2021 ] There is a searching, yearning quality to Naked Truth, and a raw beauty and vulnerability in Avishai Cohen's trumpet sound on his most improvisational ECM recording to date. Very much music-of-the-moment, found and shaped in the course of a... |
Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Yonathan Avishai (piano), Barak Mori (double bass), Ziv Ravitz (drums)
Naked Truth (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Feb/2021 ] There is a searching, yearning quality to Naked Truth, and a raw beauty and vulnerability in Avishai Cohen's trumpet sound on his most improvisational ECM recording to date. Very much music-of-the-moment, found and shaped in the course of a... |
Jack DeJohnette (Drums, Piano, Organ) with John Abercrombie (guitars)
Pictures [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] |
Stephane Grappelli (violin & piano), Marc Fosset (acoustic guitar), Allan Ganley (drums), Martyn Taylor (electric guitar), Patrice Caratini (bass)
Stephane Grappelli: Just One Of Those Things [ EMI / CD - released 18/Apr/1988 ] Praising a recent Stephane Grappelli album, American jazz critic Leonard Feather noted that Grappelli in his mid-70s "plays with more cheerful self-confidence than he did at 57 or 27." |
The Drums
Brutalism (LP) [ Epitaph / LP - released 5/Apr/2019 ] |
Aaron Parks (piano), Ben Street (double bass), Billy Hart (drums)
Find the Way [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] For the second ECM album by Aaron Parks - following the solo release Aborescence, which JazzTimes praised as "expansive, impressionistic… like a vision quest" - the prize-winning pianist has convened a trio featuring bassist Ben Street and drummer... |
John Abercrombie (guitar) with Dan Wall (Hammond B3) & Adam Nussbaum (drums)
Tactics [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] Recorded July 1996 |
Anat Fort (piano) with Gary Wang (double-bass) & Roland Schneider (drums)
A Long Story [ ECM / CD - released 29/Jan/2007 ] "Anat Fort has a charming way of dispensing pastoralism and an insightful way of lining that pastoralism with depth", wrote Jim Macnie, in the Village Voice, adding that "her trio has the kind of poise that lets her move from terra firma to the... |
Black Watch Pipes & Drums
The Dark Island [ CD ] |
Stefano Bollani (piano) with Jesper Bodilsen (double-bass) & Morten Lund (drums)
Stone in the Water [ ECM Records / CD - released 5/Oct/2009 ] "A lovely document by an exemplary trio." Michael J. West, Jazz Times |
JORIS ROELOFS
Roelofs: Rope Dance Bram van Sambeek, bassoon; Joris Roelofs, bass clarinet and clarinet; Bram de Looze, piano; Clemens van der Feen, double bass; Martijn Vink, drums [ BIS / CD - released 7/May/2021 ] The award-winning Dutch composer and bass clarinet player Joris Roelofs is also currently working on a PhD dissertation on Friedrich Nietzsche, improvisation and the notion of freedom. On the album Rope Dance he is able to combine all of this, in a... |
Center City Brass Quintet Feza Zweifel, drums
Streetsong [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2004 ] Renowned for its high energy and finely polished style, the Center City Brass Quintet comprises well-known soloists and leading players in America's top orchestras who convene regularly and who perform a diverse range of musical styles with equal... |
Charles Lloyd (tenor and alto saxophones) with Billy Higgins (drums, percussion, guitar)
Which Way is East [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 8/Jun/2004 ] Tenor great, Charles Lloyd has this 2CD offering - a duet album with the late Billy Higgins on drums and percussion. |
Arne Domnerus (alto saxophone & clarinet) Bengt Hallberg (piano) Lars Erstrand (vibes) Georg Riedel (drums) Egil Johansen (drums)
Jazz At The Pawnshop (3 SACD + bonus DVD) [ Proprius / 3 Hybrid SACD - released 26/Feb/2007 ] Great music never gets old - it matures like a fine wine. Now one of the musical and audiophile highlights of jazz recording history is available in unsurpassed SACD sound. These recordings recently celebrated its 30th anniversary and the analogue... |
The Drums
The Drums [ Shock Records / CD - released 5/Jul/2010 ] Including the single "Forever and Ever Amen", plus their breakthrough indie hit "Let's Go Surfing" and torch-burning, heartbreaker "Down By The Water" from their 'Summertime!' EP. |
The Drums
E N C Y C L O P E D I A [ Inertia / CD - released 26/Sep/2014 ] "Encyclopedia is full of magic and surprise while maintaining a serious, more weighty tone throughout," founding member Jonny Pierce says of the follow-up to 2011's Portamento. "We were feeling very angry, confused, and alone when we made this... |
The Drums
E N C Y C L O P E D I A (LP) [ Minor Records / LP - released 26/Sep/2014 ] "Encyclopedia is full of magic and surprise while maintaining a serious, more weighty tone throughout," founding member Jonny Pierce says of the follow-up to 2011's Portamento. "We were feeling very angry, confused, and alone when we made this album,... |
The Drums
Portamento [ CD - released 29/Sep/2011 ] |
The Drums
Portamento (Vinyl) [ French Kiss / LP - released 13/Sep/2011 ] Limited edition vinyl issue. |
The Drums
S/T [ CD ] |