ECM

While Isabela is brief and somewhat less strident than its predecessor, it is no less revelatory, artful, or musically expressive. — AllMusic, May 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Stories of lost loves, wartime strife and forlorn hope are handled with a lugubrious grace of which Dowland would have been proud. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2017 More…

From the opening ‘Part I’, a 16-minute storm of thundering polyrhythms and powerful cadences, the muse certainly seemed to have descended on Jarrett that evening. Each piece seems to flash by... — Jazzwise, February 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Lovano’s ‘Fort Worth’ (a nod to Ornette) is exhilaratingly and free-jazzily polyphonic and conversational, ‘Divine Timing’ a haunting two-horns dirge that turns to effortless grooveswitching,... — Jazzwise, November 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Four years after his groundbreaking Warp, the pianist follows with a no less ambitious approach to the fissures in societal communication. — AllMusic, May 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Nik Bärtsch feels a long way from jazz, but a lot closer to a freewheeling rhythmic spontaneity on this unexpectedly action-packed set. — Jazzwise, May 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Affirmation, the ensemble’s debut album, is almost entirely the product of spontaneous interaction, often inspired by Andersen, whose contra bass acts as the voice of reason – probing, pushing,... — Jazzwise, November 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…