Indonesia is not a country the Western soul narrative has ever paid much attention to, which says everything about the narrative and nothing about Indonesia. Surabaya alone has form. It was the city ...

The lineage of Polish jazz needs little introduction to anyone who has spent time with the music of Krzysztof Komeda, whose scores for Knife in the Water and Rosemary’s Baby carried a distinctly ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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