Cormac Larkin

Kurt Rosenwinkel has already scaled dizzying heights as the undisputed heavyweight of modern jazz guitar, a fresh and original voice in a crowded fiel(...)

German-born, New York-resident singer Theo Bleckmann is one of the true vocal innovators, a voice-as-instrument musician who combines the sonic advent(...)

Vince Mendoza and the Westdeutschen Rundfunks big band go back a long way and it shows. Widely regarded as one of the finest living arrangers for larg(...)

At 89, Lee Konitz has nothing left to prove, but the legendary saxophonist, who began his long recording career on Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool back(...)

Comparing Danish keyboardist Morten Schantz’s new project to Weather Report is a compliment. It’s not just because Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter firs(...)

London pianist Barry Green has done his time as a sideman par excellence, but judging by his own recent releases, it’s time to lead. Almost There is (...)

What’s with the far north and the sound of infinity? Sisters Ingrid and Christine Jensen, two of Canada’s finest jazz musicians, have crafted their ow(...)

Mandolin and piano is as unlikely an instrumental pairing as you’ll find. Putting them together in a duo really shouldn’t work, but Chris Thile and B(...)

“I’ve been doing this long enough that I just follow my muse, do what feels right.” So says John Abercrombie of the latest chapter in his long-standi(...)

To call Andreas Schaerer a singer is an understatement. The Swiss vocalist and bandleader is a musical magician, a vocal conjuror happy to deploy any(...)