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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

There’s a particular self-regard that creeps into anniversaries, and the Metropole Orkest has dodged almost all of it. Eighty ...

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

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

Over the last decade, Trish Clowes has established herself as one of the most imaginative and distinctive voices in British ...