I came to Current on CD late one evening with the headphones on, and cast off without quite meaning to. By the time the ...

Some recordings are made to be released; others simply happen and wait. A Timeless Place belongs firmly to the second kind.

There is a quiet confidence in musicians who feel no need to advertise their modernity, and it runs through most of Secret ...

Tribute albums are notoriously difficult to pull off. Too often, they become museum pieces, reverential exercises that ...

There are certain moments in jazz history where everything simply clicks. Miles ’56: The Prestige Recordings captures one of ...

Most new labels turn up clutching a mission statement, and most of those statements blur into one. Svale Records, freshly ...

There’s a gentle irony in the name. Uusi Jazzi Klubi translates as “New Jazz Club”, yet the Helsinki collective behind it has ...

A solo flute album is a hard thing to make and, I’ll admit, a hard thing to write about. Seven unaccompanied pieces, no other ...

It’s been a notably busy twelve months for the Felipe Sena-helmed Orbital Ensemble – with the release of their debut album ...

The first-ever vinyl reissue of Hadley Caliman‘s 1971 cult classic Iapetus arrives courtesy of WeWantSounds, presented in its ...

Drop the needle, give it a second, and a room assembles itself around you — a small one, warm-walled, the sort where you ...

I’ll admit, before the needle dropped, that this lands some distance from my usual beat. A four-record box of orchestral ...