Nonesuch

A highlight is ‘Make It All Go Away’, an evocative nod to rock psychedelia and dominated by two exceptional guest vocalists: Kurt Elling improvises gliding horn-like lines and in-demand singer-songwriter... — Jazzwise, August 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Brad Mehldau’s teasing talent for setting a mood of fascinating expectation and then unhurriedly revealing its multiple implications has been a marvel of contemporary jazz since the 1990s, and... — Jazzwise, July 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Playing that retains an ageless funkiness and populist immediacy amid its contemporary sophistry. Indeed, the whole album is the ‘old bottle, new wine’ theory put into good practice. — Jazzwise, July 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This entirely excellent set majors on respected items from [the jazz standard] tradition, entailing an expertly judged process of inspired rebuilding around the original themes and structures... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Full of sonic surprises, the music nevertheless retains a coherent thread with arrangements that frequently place Halvorson more as a texturalist than soloist. The band is a revelation, its dazzling... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This album uncovers a whole, tender world in the act of playing [Akinmusire's] instrument and its emotional vocabulary for him, having stripped away its distracting power. — Jazzwise, February 2024 More…

The Brooklyn jazz guitarist’s beautifully interwoven tracks are full of welcome surprise… Halvorson’s fusions of written and spontaneous music reach an entrancing new seamlessness and seductive... — The Guardian More…