Album Reviews

Review: For Living Lovers’ ‘Natural Name’

Natural Name (Sunnyside, 2025) is the second album by For Living Lovers, the acoustic duo of guitarist Brandon Ross and…

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Review: Domo Branch’s ‘Hands of Gifts’

The gratitude of drummer-composer Domo Branch, an in-demand rising star of contemporary jazz, is evident in many ways as on…

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Review: Bob Schlesinger’s ‘Falling From Earth’

To say that Colorado-based pianist/composer Bob Schlesinger’s Falling from Earth (Digmatic, 2025) was a long time coming is a vast…

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Review: Jakob Bro’s ‘Murasaki’ and ‘The Montclair Sessions’

Danish guitarist Jakob Bro is the owner of the Copenhagen-based Loveland Records,, a label issuing two albums within a month…

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Review: Armen Donelian’s ‘Stargazer’

Stargazer (Sunnyside, 2025) is a reissue of an album by a trio of pianist Armen Donelian with bassist Eddie Gomez…

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Jazz Detective Zev Feldman Begins Yet Another Journey with New Imprint, Time Traveler Recordings, and Resurrecting Three Largely Forgotten Gems from the Muse Records Catalog

By now, most readers know that the Jazz Detective, Zev Feldman, does not limit his archival work to Black Friday…

2 months ago

Review: Phil Haynes & Free Country’s ‘Liberty Now!’

Drummer/composer Phil Haynes constantly leaves listeners anticipating what he will do next. In the past three years alone, he has…

2 months ago

Review: Sarah Elizabeth Charles’s ‘Dawn’

While it’s been done in pop, appearing noticeably pregnant on an album cover is a rarity for improvisation-based music. Indeed,…

2 months ago

Review: Donny McCaslin’s ‘Lullaby for the Lost’

Saxophonist-composer Donny McCaslin is determined to move way beyond conventional concepts of jazz,  jazz-rock fusion, or any label you want…

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Review: Mike Clark’s ‘Itai Doshin’

The title of Mike Clark’s latest record, Itai Doshin (Wide Hive, 2025) comes from the drummer’s Buddhist beliefs, a worldview…

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