Album Reviews

Review: Thumbscrew’s ‘Multicolored Midnight’

The fourth cut on Thumbscrew’s Multicolored Midnight (Cuneiform, 2022) is entitled “Shit Changes.” You don’t have to be a climate scientist or…

2 years ago

January 2023 Capsule Reviews

With the start of a new year, we also start a new feature on this site. These capsule reviews aim…

2 years ago

Review: Jussi Reijonen’s ‘Three Seconds | Kolme Toista’

"From the snowy, windswept peaks of Lapland to the desert of the Empty Quarter, Three Seconds | Kolme Toista is…

2 years ago

Review: Jakob Bro and Joe Lovano’s ‘Once Around the Room: A Tribute to Paul Motian’

In an interview with Ethan Iverson on his Do the M@th blog, writer Ben Ratliff related an anecdote that Paul…

2 years ago

Review: Tyshawn Sorey Trio’s ‘Mesmerism’

Did any artist have a better 2021 than Tyshawn Sorey? The 2017 MacArthur Fellow was the subject of a New…

2 years ago

Review: Steve Cardenas, Ben Allison, and Ted Nash’s ‘Healing Power – The Music of Carla Bley’

If Wayne Shorter is widely acknowledged as the most important living composer in jazz, who is the runner-up? Guitarist Steve…

2 years ago

Review: Tomas Fujiwara’s Triple Double’s ‘March’

The debut recording of Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double was extraordinary. The two-drum (Fujiwara and Gerald Cleaver), two-guitar (Mary Halvorson and…

3 years ago

Review: Irreversible Entanglements’ ‘Open the Gates’

"I’m so close," poet Camae Ayewa, a/k/a Moor Mother, intones on "Lágrimas del Mar" off of Irreversible Entanglements’ Open the Gates (International…

3 years ago

Review: William Parker’s ‘Migration of Silence into and Out of the Tone World [Volumes 1-10]’

Has there ever been a musician whose musical imagination is as universal and as omnivorous as William Parker's? Perhaps Alexander…

3 years ago

Review: Jonny Greenwood’s Soundtrack to ‘Spencer’

Jonny Greenwood is primarily known as the guitarist of Radiohead, but he also has a superb discography of film scores.…

3 years ago