Progressive - CD Reviews (378)
This album finds rising jazz star and saxophonist Miguel Zenon delving into third stream arenas with his augmentation of the base quartet by adding a strings quar…
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This West Coast USA-based quartet brings quite a bit to the proverbial table. With a seamlessly integrated bag of concepts and methodologies, the unit merges staggered u…
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Swiss composer and pianist Nik Bartsch has led the quintet Ronin for a number of years. Holon, the ensemble’s second recording, is full of music not easy to diges…
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Norwegian pianist Ketil Bjornstad is one of those few men left in the world to which the title eclectic truly means something. Not just a performer of classical and impr…
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This 2008 release coincides with modern jazz master, Charles Lloyd’s seventieth birthday. Nonetheless, his legacy should be considered common knowledge among many jazz a…
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Thirty-year old keyboardist Marco Benevento follows up his widely-acclaimed three-CD set Live at Tonic with a wondrous extension of his musicality on this 2008 st…
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On this self-titled release, pianist/arranger Ted Kooshian and his Standard Orbit Quartet explore an intriguing set of tunes inspired by pop culture and the sounds of ma…
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No instruments have greater dramatic possibilities than the bowed strings. Violinist Jason Kao Hwang knows this well, and he exploits it: Everything from the compositions t…
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Taken from a 1991 performance at Theaterhaus in Stuttgart, Germany, legendary jazz drummer Elvin Jones and his quintet Jazz Machine are filmed during a show-stopping per…
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Thoughtful jazz, truly thoughtful jazz, might be the rarest art form. For it to be successful there can be no moments when the artist, or artists, involved are not total…
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Drummer-percussionist Bill Bruford powerful percussive rhythms drove some of the best progressive rock bands during that genre’s heydays in the 1970s. He was the authoritat…
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This young Belgian quintet does indeed intimate inferences from jazz/prog-rock heavyweights Soft Machine, King Crimson and other seminal bands. Unlike many…
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Paris-based French pianist, composer and film scorer Olivier Calmel designed Empreintes to be a concept album. Formed around the more modern classical composers C…
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Gest8 is the creation of saxophonist and composer Sandy Evans, and composer and bandleader Tony Gorman. The eight-member ensemble is, in some ways, an Australian quasi-e…
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50 year-old Swedish saxophonist Cennet Jonsson is well known in his native country from work with the Tolvan Big Band, the Peter Danemo orchestra, the Jonsson/Karlzon du…
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Born in Schenectady, New York and now regionally based in the Albany, New York and surrounding counties area, saxophonist and composer Brian Patneaude has performed at j…
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The Loud Jazz Band, founded and led by guitarist and composer Miroslaw "Carlos" Kaczmarczyk, today uses Oslo, Norway as their home base. This version of the ensemble was…
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Brooke Sofferman, a former student of John Abercrombie's, is an 'emerging' tour-de-force in neo-bop jazz. As you will sense immediately when you spin Fine Whines,…
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These New Yorkers abide by a unique approach to the progressive rock idiom. With their inaugural album for this eminent prog-rock/jazz record label, they communicate a h…
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Legendary clarinetist/saxophonist Eddie Daniels, who has made his home in New Mexico for more than fifteen years, made a triumphant return to his hometown of New York in…
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